Bench blasting is a common technique used in open pit mines It is blasting in a vertical or sub vertical hole or a row of holes towards a free vertical surface More than one row of holes can be blasted in the same round A time delay in the detonation between the rows creates new free surfaces for each row There are three methods in the process
Get Price1 Drilling There are two major types of drilling techniques being used Down the Hole DTH It is used when the blast hole diameter varies from 100mm to 380mm and the depth of blast hole is 12 15m Rotary When the blast hole diameter > 400mm and the depth is about 20m rotary drilling is used 2
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Get PriceThere are several types of surface mining but the three most common are open pit mining strip mining and quarrying These differ from one another in the mine geometries created the techniques used and the minerals produced Open pit mining often but not always results in a large hole or pit being formed in the process of extracting a
Get PriceIn the blast design of rock wells or tunnels presplit and smooth blasting both need to drill a circle of small spacing boreholes along the designed contour line [14] as shown in Figure 1 a These boreholes are usually the same diameter as the main boreholes All peripheral holes are lightly loaded and decoupled with low powered explosives
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Get PriceOpen Cut/Pit A mine worked at and from the surface Also called surface mine Orebody A natural concentration of valuable minerals that can be economically extracted Ore Loss The loss of ore to the waste mining stream during blasting or mining Overburden Layers of soil and/or rock covering an orebody Overbreak
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Get PriceIn some mining operations one of the most important roles played by the geologist is the supervision of grade control In an open pit operation this involves the sampling of blast hole cuttings produced by down the hole hammer drills and the classification of bench reserves into ore low grade or waste material or into various metallurgical types
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