NANDBlasting went pretty well, although the copies that we made of the USB stick that Reuben gave us in Kigali did not work for whatever reason, so we made due with just the one original stick. Though we had enough work to keep us at the DCI office until late into that night, a ...
The Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement (OSM) cited a large surface coal mine for a series of flyrock incidents that occurred when blasting close to the mining lease perimeter. The OSM placed the company on a pattern of violation status. It was determined through analysis ...
Borehole blasting, as a traditional method for hard rock pretreatment [5,6], has some disadvantages, such as limited access to explosive materials, high construction cost, high labor intensity and harmful gas production during the blasting process [7,8,9]. Therefore, hydraulic fracturing, as a...