Large-scale panel destress blast at Brunswick mine

CIM Bulletin

Volumn 96, Issue 1075, 2003, Pages 78-87

  Andrieux, Patrick P ^a   Brummer, Richard K ^a   Liu, Qian ^b   Simser, Bradford P ^b   Mortazavi, Ali ^c  

^a ITASCA CONSULTING GROUP   (United States)

^b Noranda Technology Centre   (Canada)

^c AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Destress blasting; Discrete element inelastic numerical stress modelling; Instrumentation; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

COAL BREAKAGE; COAL MINES; GROUND OPERATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROCK MECHANICS; STRESSES;

DESTRESS BLASTS; VIBRATION MONITORING;

BLASTING;

BLASTING; IN SITU STRESS; MINING; NUMERICAL MODEL; STRESS CHANGE;

EID: 0347765825     PISSN: 03170926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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