Dublin, April 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Practical Drill and Blast Master Class" conference has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
Drilling and blasting is a critical process for mining, civil construction and extractive industries throughout the world. Drill and blast has the potential to make or break an operation.
This master class will deliver all the tools you need to safely and cost effectively manage and improve your drill and blast operations. These tools will help your company to enhance competitiveness, reduce overall cost and place your operation in a better position not only in the regional market but also globally.
This training workshop will deliver vital practical information on drilling, rock breaking and blasting as well as the latest advances in bulk explosives, high explosives and initiating systems which are currently emerging in the market.
You will take away calculation tools, industry best practice rules of thumb, as well as a selection of presentation slides and much more.
After completion of the workshop, Michael will also be available to assist you going forward in setting up the tools that will ensure your drill and blast delivers safe and cost effective benefits to downstream functions.
KEY BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
- Interpreting and utilising the industry best practice rules on drilling and blasting
- Improving understanding the mechanics of rock breaking and blasting
- Exploring the latest in initiating systems innovations (electronic) and designs to optimise productivity
- Optimising costs with good blast designs and quality application
- Managing drill and blast data and reporting
- Complying with regulations and legislation
- Improving fragmentation, diggability and cast where required
- Minimising ore dilution; achieving competent and stable final walls
- Managing environmental requirements for ground vibration, airblast, flyrock and fumes
Who Should Attend:
Attendees who can benefit from this course include but not limited to:
- Drill & Blast Engineer/Manager/Supervisor/Specialist/Foreman
- GM Operations
- Technical Superintendent/Manager
- Mining Production Superintendent
- Mining Project Manager
- Mine Manager/Operators
- Blasting Crew
- Shot firers
- Driller
- Legislators and regulators
From the industries of:
- Mining
- Civil Construction
- Development and Infrastructure
- Engineering Services
- Oil and Gas
- Power and Utilities
- Extractive industries
- Environmental industries
- Archaeological companies
Agenda:
DAY ONE
Morning Sessions
Introduction
- What do you want to get out of this workshop?
Explosives blasting fundamentals
- Understanding the fundamentals for safe and cost effective mining
Comprehending the mechanics of rock breaking
- How do explosives break rock?
- Mechanical properties and rock behaviour
- Different explosives for different rocks
- Workshop on cost effective product selection (bang for your buck)
Afternoon Session
Mine to Mill cost structures
- Mine to mill mentality
- Drill and blast costs
- Impact of drill and blast on load, haul and primary crushing
- Case Study: Impact of Drill and Blast on load and haul in medium sized gold project
- Case Study: Impact of Drill and Blast on primary crushing in larger scale copper project
DAY TWO
Morning Session
Principles of blast design
- Drill parameters and selection
- Is bigger better?
- Quality, Quality, Quality
- Determining cost effective drill and blast parameters for mine to mill mentality
- Case Study: Developing cost effective blast design in medium size copper project
Principles of initiation design
- Initiation products and cost structures
- Electronics vs nonelectrics
- Timing vs fragmentation
- Timing vs Throw
- Using timing to minimise ore dilution
Afternoon Session
- Case study: Using timing to improve productivity (fragmentation and diggability)
- Case Study: Using timing to minimise dilution in a low grade, narrow vein gold project
Environmental and sensitive area blasting
- The cost of compliance in a competitive market
- Productivity vs environmental
DAY THREE
Morning Session
Environmental and sensitive area blasting
- Minimising blast fumes
- Case Study: Blasting adjacent to live LNG plant and indigenous heritage
- Case Study: Getting it wrong
Specialised Blasting Techniques
- Controlled Blasting for final wall/perimeter control
- Presplitting/Line Drilling
- Buffer/Trim Blasting
- Initiation timing for controlled blasting
- Case Study: Final wall control in medium sized gold project
- Case Study: Final Wall control in large copper project
Afternoon Session
Specialised Blasting Techniques
- Airdeck and stemming deck charging
- Oversize and secondary breakage
Open Forum/review
Wrap Up: In summary
Speakers:
Michael Smith
Drill and Blast Consultant and Trainer
Neoedge
Michael Smith is a professional mining engineer and a ticketed shotfirer with over 35 years of experience in the drill and blast industry. He graduated from Ballarat School of Mines with a bachelor degree in Mining Engineering in the mid 1980's. He then spent 3 years as a handheld miner gaining valuable practical experience in all aspects of drill and blast underground.
Following this, Michael went to work for ICI Explosives based in Victoria, Australia. Over the next 10 years, he worked in a variety of roles inclusing Drill and Blast Engineer for quarries and open cuts, Underground Specialist developing new products for the underground market and Business Manager for South Australia and Tasmania.
During that time, Michael also carried out consultative work for ICI Explosives, most notably providing expertise in converting key ICI customers from nitroglycerine based explosives to emulsion based explosives in the Australian and North American/Canadian markets and introducing packaged emulsions and bulk emulsions into the Asian tunneling and mining markets.
In 1998, Michael left ICI Explosives and set up MJS Mining Services to provide quality and professional consulting and training service to the mining, civil construction and extractive drill and blast industries both domestically and internationally. Michael has been Principal Consultant and Managing Director of MJS Mining for the past 18 years. Highlights include onsite involvement in the Beaconsfield mine rescue, solving diverse blasting issues both underground and on the surface throughout the world.
Michael has facilitated in over 180 training courses, workshops and conferences and has been involved in over 3000 blast on the surface and underground over the past 35 years.
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