Electronic detonators ? A tool for mitigating mining costs & risks
- DOI
- 10.2991/rare-16.2016.27How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Mining; ground vibrations;delay times
- Abstract
Mining is a hazardous activity and capital intensive in nature too. The cost of stoppage of mines, for any reason, for few hours is enormous. The mines need to minimise the stoppage times to improve productivity and to reduce costs. Mining companies should have to go for large size blasts to achieve this objective. Large size blasts using traditional initiating devices, create numerous concerns to mine authorities like ground vibrations, slope stability, noise, fly rock, back break etc. To extract minerals from earth's crust by opencast method, we break and remove large volumes of waste rock. With increase in stripping ratios in Open Cast method of mining, the waste volumes to be broken for removal is increasing year on year. As the handling of waste volumes increase, the risks associated with mining also increases as the number of blasting events increase, more issues arise on slope stability, control of ground vibrations and noise to permissible limits etc., Blasting productivity and control is mainly governed by delay times used. The delay times proposed to be used should have a wide range (1-10000 MS) and accurate. Other wise the blast control becomes impossible, particularly when the charges used per hole are large to very large, and the number of holes to be fired / blast are more than 50 numbers. The team at GOCL demonstrated, that the mining costs and risks can be reduced using electronic detonators at few mines
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- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - P.V.S. Sarma AU - A.M. Kazmi AU - A.D. Sao PY - 2016/11 DA - 2016/11 TI - Electronic detonators ? A tool for mitigating mining costs & risks BT - Proceedings of the conference on Recent Advances in Rock Engineering (RARE 2016) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 170 EP - 173 SN - 2352-5401 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/rare-16.2016.27 DO - 10.2991/rare-16.2016.27 ID - Sarma2016/11 ER -