Application of digital image analysis for monitoring the behavior of factors that control the rock fragmentation in opencast bench blasting: A case study conducted over four opencast coal mines of the Talcher Coalfields, India

Drilling and blasting play a very important role in driving the economy of opencast mines, as various mining activities related to strata handling are dependent on the size of the rock mass created due to blasting. Thus the analysis of fragments created from rock explosion is essential in order to m...

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Main Authors: Binay Kumar Singh, Debjeet Mondal, Mohd Shahid, Amit Saxena, Paresh Nath Singha Roy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Central Mining Institute (Główny Instytut Górnictwa) 2019-11-01
Series:Journal of Sustainable Mining
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2300396019301089