strip-mined

7.4

Land that has had soil and rock removed to get coal or minerals

adjective
/ˈstrɪpˌmaɪnd/

Specialized

: minado a cielo abierto

In the past, large areas of the region were strip-mined, leaving behind deep pits and degraded soil.

Examples

Many farmers are concerned about the effects of strip-mined land on local ecosystems and wildlife.
The Lionel train races through the remains of a strip-mined mountain terrace.

Fiction book (1991)
The landscape around the factory is scarred and strip-mined, revealing the bare earth beneath.

Synonyms

mined

vsstrip-mined

Specialized

3.2

Removed from the ground by digging for metals like copper or gold

is narrower, about land altered by removing soil and rock near the surface

How Disturbed

strip-mined

Specialized

7.4

denuded

7.7

disturbed

1 4.1

undisturbed

22 3.0

Surface Forms

strip-mined positive

Morphology

strip-mined = strip-mine (transparent) = strip + mine + ed

The compound 'strip-mine' (strip + mine) has a direct meaning and the adjective is simply the past-participial form indicating land that has been mined in this way.

Etymology

The word strip-mined comes from strip ('to remove') and mine ('to dig for minerals'), so it literally means land where people have 'stripped' away the top soil to reach coal or ore, leaving the ground bare.