Ventilation is a basic part of all underground mine operations as fresh, cool air is required to remove stale, affected air from the workings. The inadequate ventilation often is the cause of lower worker efficiency leading ...

Problems due to ground vibration are a matter of serious concern for the users of explosives, as it is not possible to eliminate vibration totally or to contain them at the source. Efforts need to be made in controlling ...

The objective of this research is aimed at optimizing the specific charge for limestone blasting at Aruwakkalu limestone quarry without leading to poor fragmentation of the blasted material. Thus, in reducing costs incurred ...

Phosphate fertilizer is an important input in agriculture, in the scenario of increasing food demand with the population increase. Global rock phosphate reserves are finite and exhaustible. This leads to the search for ...