Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
Operación y destape de canteras
English translation:
quarry operation and stripping
Spanish term
Operación y destape de canteras
Mi duda es la siguiente:
Prestará servicios de OPERACIÓN Y DESTAPE DE CANTERAS para sus fábricas de cemento.
Gracias
| 3 +3 | quarry operation and stripping |
Robert Carter
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| 3 | operation and untopping of quarries |
patinba
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Jan 9, 2017 16:48: patinba changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
PRO (3): franglish, Robert Carter, patinba
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Proposed translations
Mexico
Translating full-time since 1998
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: Spanish to English
quarry operation and stripping
A "cantera" is a quarry or open-pit mine, but usually for extracting building materials rather than ore.
A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground. A quarry is the same thing as an open-pit mine from which minerals are extracted. The only trivial difference between the two is that open-pit mines that produce building materials and dimension stone are commonly referred to as quarries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarry
cantera (min), quarry, gravel pit
http://www.infomine.com/dictionary/hardrockminers/english/we...
Stripping / Remoción / Desmonte / Destape / Encape (Ar) / Descapote (Co) >
Stripping
Diccionario de Minería
María Isabel Sillano / Jorge Pérez Rojas
I think "quarrying" would also be okay instead of "quarry operation".
operation and untopping of quarries
shimlamanali.in/4437/what-is-an-underground-quarry-used-for/
Elliott Underground Quarry is the only underground limestone quarry in Lawrence County, Indiana, The ... Following 1980 serious untopping work commenced.
Welsh Slate: Archaeology and History of an Industry
https://books.google.com.ar/books?isbn=187118455X
David Gwyn - 2015 - Social Science
... at Ffestiniog following a visit to Lord Dudley's limestone quarries in the English ... at Palmerston's request.26 Opening out, or 'untopping', enabled the quarries ...
Maenofferen Quarry - Revolvy
broom02.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Maenofferen%20Quarry&item_type=topic
Maenofferen Quarry is a major slate quarry in the town of Blaenau Ffestiniog ... the combined Maenofferen site, consisting of "untopping" underground workings to .... Cement works Many of the cement works and their associated chalk pits had ...
Posts by rikj - Mine Exploration Forum - Member List
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417 results - Topic: Box Freestone Quarry Limestone Mine · rikj ... They will be untopping the old workings as they remove the remaining pillars. Pillar and stall ...
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