Drilling & Blasting
- Blasting is the process of breaking of bulk rock masses into loose forms, using explosive compounds. Here, the primary role is played by the explosives. The explosives are the substances or devices used in blasting. The explosives are used to produce a volume of rapidly expanding gas that exerts sudden pressure on its surroundings and break the mass into pieces.
•Rock/ore appears to be much stronger in the dynamic case, tha
•Fragmentation of rock/ore is a dynamic process, not a static one