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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073a Schematic diagram of blast-induced damage zone of the excavation slope; b the cumulative damage zone on the slope observed during site investigation after blasting in the open-pit final wall
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WhatsApp: +86 18221755073Blasting near open pit walls CK McKenzie 84 APSSIM 2016, Brisbane, Australia Open pit blasting must be considered as a mining process with well-defined customers, those being the excavator/truck fleet (pit productivity), the processing plant (plant productivity), and the geotechnical department (pit safety).
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WhatsApp: +86 182217550731. Introduction. At present, drilling equipment with 200-mm hole diameter and above is widely used in large open-pit mine. The blasthole diameter has significant effect on rock fragmentation, since it is the primary blast design parameter and has influence on the choice of burden, spacing, stemming length, etc. [1], [2], [3].In order to choose the …
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