Elements of drill and blast design and 3D visualization in surface coal mines

2004 SME Annual Meeting Preprints

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 119-124

  Wilkinson Jr , W A ^a   Kecojevic, V J ^b  

^a Mincom Inc   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLASTING OPERATIONS; ROCK FRAGMENTATION; SURFACE COAL MINES;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DRILLING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROCKS; TRANSPORTATION; VISUALIZATION;

COAL MINES;

EID: 2942580831     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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