pit coal in a sentence

1. That company wants to clear-cut more ancient Hambach Forest in Germany for a giant open-pit coal mine.

2. A former open-pit coal mine, it was flooded in 1999 with groundwater and developed in 2006 as a tourist area.

3. “To extract that coal, Germany has decided to expand an existing open-pit coal mine, Europe’s largest, by subsidizing the razing of a 12,000-year-old forest.”

4. The journey started South of Berlin, in the eastern part of Germany with the visit of a gigantic open pit coal mine, and to areas were mining activities have ceased and renaturation is on its way.