Overburden

Overburden stands for:

• Overburden (mining) , rock material that is cleared in open-cast mining in order to get to the useful minerals below
• Excavation , soil or rock material that arises when digging a pit or when building a tunnel
• Felling waste , remnants of felled trees that remain on the cutting surface during the timber harvest

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.