BENCH BLASTING OPTIMIZATION METHOD DEPENDING ON DESIRED FRAGMENTATION

7th International Scientific Conference - SGEM2007, www.sgem.org, SGEM2007 Conference Proceedings/ ISBN: 954-918181-2, June 11-15, 2007

ABSTRACT

Within the scope of this study, Kuz-Ram and JKMRC fragmentation estimation
models were applied to bench blasting operations and pros and cons of models
were determined by comparing estimation results with the real fragmentation
results obtained from digital image processing technique. On the other side,
bench blast optimization method by means of models and digital image
processing technique, is introduced in order to get desired fragmentation result
from bench blast.