An assessment of ore waste and dilution resulting from buffer/choke blasting in surface gold mines

Fragblast

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 195-204

  Preece, Dale S ^a   Chung, Stephen H ^b   Tidman, J Paul ^b  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b ICI Explosives   (Canada)

Author keywords

Buffer blasting; Dilution; Ore waste; Surface mining

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GOLD MINES; GOLD ORE TREATMENT; OPEN PIT MINING;

BUFFER/CHOKE BLASTING; SOFTWARE PACKAGE DMC_BLAST;

BLASTING;

BLASTING; DILUTION; GOLD MINE; OPEN PIT MINE;

EID: 0032469240     PISSN: 1385514X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13855149809408885     Document Type: Article

References (3)

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2. Preece, D.S., Burchell, S.L. & Scovira, D.S. 1993. Coupled explosive gas flow and rock motion modeling with comparison to bench blast field data. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Rock Fragmentation by Blasting. Vienna, Austria: Technical University.
3. Preece, D.S., Tidman, J.P. & Chung, S.H. 1997. Expanded rock blast modeling capabilities of DMC-BLAST, including buffer blasting. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Symposium on Explosives and Blasting Research, Las Vegas, NV.