US$150,000 additional value by accurately accounting for blast movement after one blast
US$150,000 additional value by accurately accounting for blast movement after one blast
1 PagesBlast Movement Technologies 2 / 67 Bluestone Circuit Seventeen Mile Rocks Queensland, 4073 office@bmt.com.au AUSTRALIA www.bmt.com.au 09/2017 Commodity Ore Grade Geology Powder Factor Flitches Location Gold 2.2 g/t ** Structured 0.85 kg/m 3 4 Africa This gold mine is one of the top producing open-pit gold operations in West Africa. ? Mineralisation is shear-hosted in sedimentary deposits ? Blasts are fired in 10 metre (33 ft) benches and mined in four flitches (2.5 m) ? The site contains high grade (above 2.2 g/t) ore Polypipe solution failed to identify significant mid and bottom bench post-blast ore movement BMM System accurately translated post-blast dig lines in all flitches ? The site had tried to use polypipe (BVIs) to measure blast move
