Mining Operations

Jaw crushers are used both in the mining industry to produce metals and in aggregate quarries to produce building materials. ...Read more

Smooth wall blasting is the most commonly used underground technique and was developed in Sweden (The Blasters’ Handbook, n.d.). The ...Read more

This is a cool blasting video showing an initiation of a blast in an Open pit in a form of ...Read more

Tailings dams, vast structures designed for the perpetual containment of hazardous mining byproducts (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, n.d.), pose significant, ...Read more

In high explosives, a shock pressure spike at the reaction front travels through the explosive before the gas energy is ...Read more

The video shows an Open Pit blast from Caval Ridge Coal mine in Australia. What do you think of the ...Read more

A sluice box is an engineered channel for extracting gold from placer deposits using gravity separation.   Gold’s high density causes ...Read more

Electric shovels offer several significant advantages over diesel shovels in the mining industry: Zero emissions at the point of use, allowing ...Read more

Sleeving blastholes is the practice of creating a liner around drilled blast holes-something typically done in the mining & quarrying ...Read more

  Cardox systems are a special type of non-explosive rock blasting technology that uses the rapid phase transition of carbon dioxide ...Read more