Blasting in Mining - New Trends

Blasting practices in mines have undergone many changes in the recent past and continue to be honed and reconfigured to meet the demands of today?s mining needs. This volume compiles papers of the workshop Blasting in Mines ? New Trends, hosted by the Fragblast 10 Symposium . The 17 papers provide a mix which highlight the evolving trends in blasting in mines. These range from special techniques of cast blasting, applications of seed wave modelling for improved fragmentation, to design of mass blasts and controlled blasting for stability of pit-walls. Blasting in Mines ? New Trends will be of particular interest to mining and blasting engineers.

Preface, Organising Institution, Committees, Sponsors, Seed wave modelling applications for fragmentation, damage, and environmental impact control, Design and general practice of mass blast in underground open stopping mining method, Improving pit wall stability by minimizing blast damage vis a vis rock characterization at RAM, New physical findings revolutionize the drilling and blasting technology as well as the prediction of ground vibrations—Part 1: The new blasting model, New physical findings revolutionize the drilling and blasting technology as well as the prediction of ground vibrations—Part 2: Practical applications above ground and underground, Assessing a risk analysis methodology for rock blasting operations, Novel blasting techniques for productivity improvement in hard rock underground dolostone mine, Application of a blast-based mine-to-leach model in Barrick Zaldivar, Cast blasting for improved mine economics, Explosive energy distribution in an explosive column through use of non-explosive material-case studies, Blasting and explosive application in India—Past experience and future trends, Application of bunch-hole blasting in recovering residual ore in irregular goaf groups, Investigation into the influence of air-decking on blast performance in opencast mines in India: A study, Air spring vibration absorber blasting technology research and application, Linking relationship between parameters of rock mass and ground vibrations, Performance enhancement by adopting improved blasting techniques in a limestone mine: A case study, Precision delay timing—a tool for improving mining efficiency: A case study