It was concluded that the cause of the ineffective fragmentation leading to high cost of secondary breakage and uneven pit floors was due to operational errors during drilling. ... EVALUATION OF BLASTING IN AN …

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for an exchange of the Provisional Blasting Certificate for Opencast Mines to Permanent Blasting Certificate for Opencast Mines. 5. The application must be endorsed by the Manager appointed in terms of section 3 (1) (a) of the Mine Health and Safety Act, 1996, as amended. 6. Only in exceptional circumstances, the issuing authority may …

Kruger Blasting is a Level 4 BEE drill and blast company specialising in drilling and blasting services for the quarry and civil construction industries in South Africa since 1990. The company is based in Stutterheim in the Eastern Cape and travels across South Africa and its neighbouring countries to complete projects. Latest Company Profile.

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Abstract. The blasting operation plays a pivotal role in the overall economics of opencast mines. The blasting sub-system affects all the other associated sub …

Conditions for conducting blasting in fire areas in an opencast coal mine (1) Blasting operations shall be carried out under direct supervision of an Assistant manager in charge of Blasting operations. (2) Persons trained in the job of blasting in Fire area only shall be deputed for the said operation. (3) No explosive other than slurry or …

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Drilling and blasting are commonly adopted techniques for overburden removal and ore excavation in opencast as well as underground mining operations. Blast hole drilling …

The application of dynamic modelling for designing surface coal blasting patterns is presented. By combining the terms of open cast blasting design pattern, production planning, noise, vibration, fly rock, and estimation of drilling and blasting costs, as a decision making tool for planning surface coal blasting efficiency, reducing the …

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To exploit coal from opencast mines, commercial explosives, in large quantities, are used for blasting of overburden rock. The increased use of commercial explosives creates a lot of problems due to the sprawl of urbanization and man's increased sensitivity to blasting that ultimately necessitates cost-effective and safe rock excavation …

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Northern Ontario Business Staff Sep 11, 2019 3:00 PM. Consbec, a Sudbury-area blasting company, expects to create more jobs through its recent joint venture agreement with South African firm BME. (Consbec photo) Consbec and BME are partnering to provide underground blasting services to the mining industry. Consbec, the largest …

Normal dragline blast of Jayant opencast project consists of detonation of 3-8 rows involving 16-70 blastholes in a round. Controlled blasting technique, line drilling was planned and line drill holes of 20 to 27 m depths were drilled at a spacing of 3 to 4 m. The line drill holes were kept at a distance of 4 m from the final production holes ...

Please cite this article as: Singh PK, Roy MP, Paswan RK, Sarim M, Kumar S, Jha RR, Rock. fragmentation control in opencast blasting, Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. …

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Back Blasting Certificate of Competency. Blasting certificates of competency are licences to practice at a South African mine. This certificate of competency is issued to a competent person who can be appointed legally to perform duties of a miner or a blaster at a South African mine as stipulated in the Mine Health and Safety Act, 1996 (Act 29 of 1996) as …

Blasting has been one of the most important contributors of mining since the start of mineral extraction and excavation. Along with fragmentation of the rocks, …

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The validation site is an opencast coal mine. The Quarry-AB collieries is under the administrative control of M/s Tata Steel Limited located centrally within West Bokaro coalfield. ... Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Conference on Explosives and Blasting Technique, Denver, CO, USA (2009), pp. 8-11. Google Scholar [29] S. Iverson, …

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1 - 3 years' experience of opencast blasting. Manage blasting crew at the working area. Posted Posted 17 days ago ... Report, verify and co-ordinate the site statistical information; Facilitate evaluation of the tasks identified for the purpose of determining critical tasks.

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Zizwe Batlase, a Joint Venture Company, is 51% owned by the Baphalane community and 49% owned by Zizwe Opencast Mining (Pty) Ltd.Click on the button below to learn more about Zizwe Opencast Mining. Zizwe Opencast Mining website. Zizwe Batlase specialises in bulk earthworks, drilling, blasting, opencast mining, crushing, screening and ...