Measurement of blast damage

Mining Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 103-108

  Scoble, M J ^a   Lizotte, Y C ^b,c   Paventi, M ^b,d   Mohanty, B B ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SME ^*

^c ICI Explosives Canada Inc   (Canada)

^d Smelter Tech Services Inco Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLAST DAMAGE; GEOLOGY; MINING;

EID: 0030771725     PISSN: 00265187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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