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Hose lube (lubrication) for the purposes of avoiding high pressure build ups and
blockages during the charging process
Charging lense 1
Quality Checks
Cup weight range (g) 575 655 (green zone)
Charge density range 1.05 1.2
Coupling 100%
Water resistant
In order to achieve the required blast advances and quality, within the budgeted costs it is
critical that the basics of drilling and blasting be adhered to. This includes the following:
1. Adhering to the design marking standards. Currently there is a problem especially
in the North 1 section where 6 * 2.5 m panels are being drilled, where-as a
standard pattern has not yet been developed.
2. Enforcement of high standard drilling practices; i.e, maintaining hole parallelism
through the use of hole directors and drilling to the required depths
3. Cleaning/ flushing all holes, before any charging is done
4. Charging and timing as are according to the design patterns. It is also important to
allow the charged emulsion product to properly gas, this is currently a big
challenge especially for rounds that are last to be charged, since blasting time
would be in certain instances only10 minutes away when charging ends.
N:B
The Geology department must play a bigger role in the determination of the
powder factors that must be used in the blasting of certain areas, like in the North
section. This they may do by giving information of the rock hardness in every section, so
that specific drilling and blasting standards are designed for specific areas based on rock
formation