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Open-pit mine with spoil heaps
A huge terraced open-pit mine on the plain inland: a conical pit cut in broad benches, with flat-topped spoil heaps beside it.
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Added
- 23 October 2026
- Films
- Not used in a film yet
Parameters
| Name | Type | Default | Range | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| diameter | number | 3000 | 1000 to 4000 m | the pit's width across its rim |
| depth | number | 170 | 60 to 300 m | how deep the pit floor lies below the plain; keep the plain high enough that the floor stays above -300 m |
| benches | integer | 5 | 3 to 8 | how many benches (flat treads with steep risers) step down the walls |
| floorShare | number | 0.28 | 0.15 to 0.5 | the pit floor's radius as a share of the rim's radius |
| heaps | integer | 3 | 0 to 5 | how many spoil heaps lie around the pit |
| heapHeight | number | 90 | 20 to 140 m | how high the spoil heaps stand |
| heapRadius | number | 1000 | 500 to 1800 m | the radius of each spoil heap at its base |
| distance | number | 4600 | 3500 to 14000 m | how far the pit's centre lies from home's door |
| bearing | number | 4 | -70 to 70 deg | which way it lies, in degrees from straight inland toward along the shore |
| plain | number | 170 | 10 to 300 m | the plain's height above today's sea around the pit (raised, so the pit floor stays near sea level) |
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film.js
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