Mining Operations

Trommel is a rotating cylinder with holes that acts like a classifier, allowing only gold materials to pass through the ...Read more

Buffer blasting is most successful when the rock is quite competent or on slopes designed with a higher factor of ...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

Air decking is nothing but creating an empty space in a blast hole. The location of the air deck could ...Read more

The Oyu Tolgoi mine is located in southern Mongolia, approximately: 550 kilometers south of the capital city Ulaanbaatar 80 kilometers north of ...Read more

Flyrock: theory and calculation The main purpose of blasting is the adequate fragmentation of the rock mass, with secondary purpose (at ...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

The Driller is the person on a rig who is in charge of the well drilling process, they supervise the ...Read more

Delay blasting reduces blast-induced vibrations through a controlled timing mechanism that manages the sequence of detonations. Mechanism of Vibration Reduction Staggered Detonation By ...Read more