Syllabus - DRILLING AND BLASTING (MM-402)

Mining and Mineral Processing

DRILLING AND BLASTING (MM-402)

IV-Semester

Drilling of Rocks in Underground and Surface Mines

Principles of rock drilling. Classification of drilling system. Rock drilling methods, parameters affecting the choice of drilling system, long hole drilling, ring drilling and rotary drilling methods for underground mines. Drilling bits.

Blasting in Underground Mines

Explosives. Initiation systems and accessories for blasting in the underground mines. Blasting off the solid. Blasting of cut faces. Mass-blasting system for heavy blasting in hard rock mines.

Blasting in Surface Mines

Principles of blast round design for single and multi-row. Blast round design in surface mines. Bulk explosives Initiation systems and accessories. Evaluation Methods, Nuisances and Mitigation Evaluation of drilling and blasting methods for underground and surface mines by use of state-of-art techniques and gadgets. Blasting nuisances and their mitigation for underground and surface mines.

Practicals

Reference Books

  • Hustrulid, W. A. Blasting Principles of Open Pit Mining, Vol. 1- General Design Concept, A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, 1999.

  • Jimeno, C.L., Jimeno, E.L, Carcedo, E.J. Drilling and Blasting of Rocks, A.A.Balkema, Rotterdam, 1995.

  • Clark, G.B., Principles of Rock fragmentation, Wiley Interscience Publication, 1987.

  • Konya, C.J. and Walter, E.J. Surface Blast Design, New Jersey, 1990.

  • Bhandari, Sushil, Engineering Rock Blasting Operations, A.A.Balkema, Rotterdam, 1997.

  • Per-Anders Persson, Roger Holmberg, and Jaimin Lee. Rock Blasting and Explosives Engineering, CRC Press, 1994.