44th Annual Conference

Improvement of Safety Practices for Loading of ANFO-Based Explosives in Zones with Reactive Rocks in Chile (Room Lone Star ABC)

29 Jan 18
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Tracks: Session 5 - Blasting Safety, Session 5 - Underground

Speaker(s): María Virginia Ramírez

Reactive grounds (presence of FeS2, CuFeS2) can create hazards in a mine. Here, the pertinence in the use of special products for these grounds according to the geological information, chemical analysis and normative models of mineralogy has been studied. A geological section containing the hazard areas was adapted for evaluation.