44th Annual Conference

Sessions Speakers Exhibitors Floor Plan Buzz

Methods to Quantify Drilling Accuracy (Room Lone Star ABC)

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

Tracks: Session 9 - Blast Design, Session 9 - Blast Design 1, Session 9 - Drilling Control and Explosives Security

Speaker(s): Nathan Rouse
The topic of this paper is the current methods used to quantify hole deviation. It details both cheap and expensive techniques that can be used to identify drilling inaccuracies in order to prevent flyrock, increased vibration, uneven floor and other undesired effects.