Implications of the dominant design in electronic initiation systems in the South African mining industry

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 255-274

  Smit, Francois C ^b   Pistorius, Carl W I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EXPLOSIVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINING; TECHNOLOGY;

ELECTRONIC INITIATION SYSTEM; MINING INDUSTRY; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION; UTTERBACK-ABERNATHY INNOVATION MODEL;

TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

BLASTING; EXPLOSIVES; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MINING INDUSTRY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0032215709     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1625(98)00006-7     Document Type: Article

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