| Subject | English | German |
| mining. | brown coal opencast mining | Braunkohlentagebau (Verfahren) |
| mining. | deep opencast mining | Tieftagebau (Verfahren) |
| construct. | opencast mining | Gewinnung über Tage |
| mining. | opencast mining | Tagebau (Verfahren) |
| mining. | opencast mining | Tagebaubetrieb |
| mining., industr. | opencast mining | oberflächennaher Abbau |
| mining. | opencast mining | Tagebaugewinnung |
| mining. | opencast mining | Tagebauverfahren |
| mining., industr. | opencast mining | Gewinnung im Tagebau |
| environ. | opencast mining Extracting metal ores and minerals that lie near the surface by removing the overlying material and breaking and loading the ore | Tagebau |
| brit. | opencast mining | Tagebau |