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{{missing information|section| the truck and shovel mining method with specific extraction steps: drilling into benches vertically, ammonium nitrate explosive deposition, blasting, removal of material from pit walls for extracting ore, horizontal? mine expansion due to extraction of ore from walls or bottom orof the pit, creation of new pits during a mine's life|date=February 2025}}
[[File:Sunrise Dam Gold Mine open pit 11.jpg|thumb|alt=Refer to caption.|Note the angled and stepped sides of the [[Sunrise Dam Gold Mine]], Australia.]]
[[File:Tagebau Garzweiler bei Otzerath Schaufelradbagger Januar2008.ogv|thumb|A bucket-wheel excavator extracting lignite from [[Garzweiler surface mine]] in Germany during 2008]]