2010/11/6 John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com>: > On 6 November 2010 05:05, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> quarry, or would that be missleading? I know that these are all >> open-cast mines, but the wikipedia entry for quarry seems somehow not >> precise enough when it comes to delimiting the usage. > > The main difference between quarry and open [cut|cast|pit] mining is > the scale... > > quarries tend to be on the smaller end of the scale, where as open cut > mining can be quite large...
I thought that there was no doubt that quarry is a type of open cast mine. I read this in different sources. Of course if you say "open cast mining" nowadays, (beeing a generic term) you will be presented the most spectacular types where other words do not exist, while for a quarry you would search "quarry", even though it is a type of open cast mine. Cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
