Strip mining

Strip mining was a mining practice in which resources were removed from open pits rather than underground.
In 2370, upon hearing Quark viewed a Gamma Quadrant they were exploring as valuable due to "exploitable resources", Benjamin Sisko remarked, "I suppose you want to cut down all these trees and start strip mining the entire planet." The Ferengi then quoted from the Rules of Acquisition #102: "Nature decays, but latinum lasts forever."()
In 2372, when Gul Dukat made the audacious claim that the Occupation of Bajor had been good for the Bajorans, Kira Nerys asked, "Which part? The massacres or the strip mining?" ()
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