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operation. In some very infrequent cases, they could be severe enough to break

windows and crack walls. However, careful calculations and placement of the

explosives can land clearing techniques these adverse effects of blasting.

Modern blasting seismographs make a trace of the vibration showing the intensity

and the duration of the vibration. They record a "peak particle velocity" in terms of

inches per second. This number indicates the intensity or strength of the ground

vibrations and may be as small as 0.01 in/sec or as large as 10 in/see. Such peak

particle velocity does not represent distances that the ground moves, but rather the

speed with which the ground vibrates. Even demolition contractor the strongest blast vibrations

the actual earthmoving equipment that the ground vibrates is only a few thousandth of an inch.

A great deal of research has been done on the effect what these ground vibrations

have on houses and other structures.

Partnership

The project was led by the Department of Mineral Resources Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, an university department with considerable research expertise in non-explosive mining methods and mine design.

During project execution, concentrated on the development of the theories of diamond sawing of hard rock and on the in-situ trials of diamond wire saws underground at Laporte Minerals. Laboratory sawing tests were carried out at Diamant Boart's pilot station in Brussels. Researchers from the Technical concentrated on the in-situ trials of impact ripper underground at Milldam Mine and on the investigation and evaluation of the performance of impact rippers in hard rock. The influence of additional free faces were investigated concerning kerf width, depth and position. With this information conceptual design of mining and heading techniques were made.

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The blaster should know and adhere to safe operating procedures. The blaster or a designated employee should connect the individual holes to the firing line. It is a good practice to walk along the firing line to reexamine the connections. If any instrumentation for recording ground vibration and air blast has been deployed, it should be checked and set at this time. Next, the blaster quarry should clear all employees from the blast area, post guards at all entrances to the blast area, and communicate to the mine foreman about the impending blast. The blaster (and helpers, if any) should go outside the blast demolition equipment or stay inside a blasting shelter. Upon receiving clear and unambiguous feedback from the guards and mine foreman, blast signals are sounded and the shot is fired.

Three methods are commonly employed in underground operations for secondary size reduction. According to a first method (drill and blast method), a single hole or several holes are drilled in the oversized boulder, explosives are installed in the hole and the boulder is blasted into smaller fragments. A second method employs directional explosives (shaped charges). The directional explosives are simply attached to the rock surface and set off. This method either breaks the rock or, if the rock is stuck in a draw point, brings the rock onto the loading level where it is reduced by the drill and blast method or removed by loading equipment. A third method employs pneumatic or hydraulic impact hammers to split the rock into smaller fragments. This method is very time consuming, requires substantial man hours, and utilizes plastic explosives and heavy equipment.