How best can you determine the optimal blast exclusion zone/ blast radius .i.e., areas of potential risk and areas of ...Read more
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In any drilling campaign, the hardest decision will be when to stop drilling. Some of the situations which may warrant ...Read more
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Buffer blasting is most successful when the rock is quite competent or on slopes designed with a higher factor of ...Read more
Definition of Burden Burden is defined as the horizontal distance from the front of the blast hole to the nearest free ...Read more
Trommel is a rotating cylinder with holes that acts like a classifier, allowing only gold materials to pass through the ...Read more
Air decking is nothing but creating an empty space in a blast hole. The location of the air deck could ...Read more
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The Driller is the person on a rig who is in charge of the well drilling process, they supervise the ...Read more
Mponeng is the deepest level shaft in the world, with a depth of 3 891 metres below datum and 2 062 metres ...Read more
The video shows an overburden blast in an Open pit mine. The high speed camera allows us to see how ...Read more
Normally, core is extracted inside the barrel by advancing the drill by its rotary action. When the depth of drilling ...Read more