44th Annual Conference

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Influence of Rock Mass Properties on Blast-Induced Rock Movement (Room Lone Star ABC)

29 Jan 18
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Session 3 - Blast Optimization 1, Session 3 - Research 1, Session 3 - Research I

Speaker(s): Bibhu Mohanty
Blast design is normally geared to optimizing fragment size distribution and minimizing deleterious blast effects. This paper details a case study linking blast-induced rock mass movement with spatial variation of rock mass properties in a metaliferrous open pit mine with heterogeneous orebodies, requiring a different approach to blast design.