This software enters the field at a pivotal moment, offering tools to improve one of mining’s most fundamental — and often under-optimized — processes: blasting. Built by industry experts and powered ...

Where Things Stand. Alaska drilling: The Trump administration plans to eliminate federal protections that ban drilling and mining in millions of acres of pristine Alaskan wilderness. Interior ...

A Game-Changing Mining Method. The Dozer Push Mining Method, developed as part of a two-year scientific study by CSIR-CIMFR, focuses on deep-hole cast blasting at PEKB Opencast Coal Mine. The trial ...

Vishnu Kushta Gimonkar, 79, owns what used to be a 10,000-square metre field, in Pilgao, Bicholim sub-district, in the heart of Goa’s iron ore mining belt, 28 kilometres from capital Panjim.

In March 2024, the Goa Government signed a mine development and production agreement and the company started operations in April. New mining regime’s impact on villages. But as mine regimes change, ...

Drilling and blasting are commonly adopted techniques for overburden removal and ore excavation in opencast as well as underground mining operations. Blast hole drilling also constitutes the simplest ...

Opencast mining, bulk materials handling, and drilling and blasting service provider Zizwe Opencast Mining’s fleet of hydraulic ripper excavator attachments from systems developer Xcentric ...

Drilling and blasting can be time, energy and cost intensive and there are many aspects that can go wrong, which can then snarl up operations. In this free case study, discover how blasting solutions ...

Keywords: deep-hole bench blasting, aggregate extraction, fragmentation size distribution, fines content, explosive performance. Citation: Gao P, Pan C, Zong Q and Dong C (2023) Rock fragmentation ...