Do the blast design to facilitate the production request

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Assignment: Design Project

1. A new coal mining operation is to be worked employing surface mining using blasting to clear an overburden of Shale using 150mm holes and 11m benches. Dry rock conditions are anticipated and the decision is to use bulk ANFO with emulsion cartridges as a primer. The density of compacted ANFO = 0.85 g/cm³ and the PF is expected not less than 0.65 kg/m³. You are required to do the blast design to facilitate the production request of stripping 2,000,000 m³ overburden annually, including the followings,

(1) Drilling and blasting schedule and production;
(2) Blasthole drilling pattern;
(3) Details of blasthole parameters, e.g. burden and spacing, subdrill and inclination;
(4) Details of blast control techniques employed;
(5) Blast circuit / initiation pattern.

Please include a design drawing whenever appropriate for each of the design.

2. Illustrate with suitable cross-section sketches showing ore and waste components, how overall stripping ration can be;
a. Constant
b. Increasing
c. Decreasing over the life of an open-pit mine.

3. Two surface mines are considering the use of a conveyor in conjunction with their current fleet of trucks and shovels. The mines are;

i. a strip mine operation in which coal is transported out of the strip from a depth of 37m to a coal plant on surface, at a rate of 1.2 million tons per month.

ii. an open-pit operation in which coal and waste are transported from a depth of 300m to either a waste dump or a processing plant on surface, at a rate of 1.22 million tons per month (ore) at a stripping ratio of 3:1.

Give advice to the mines concerning the practicality and utility of using a conveyor to either replace or supplement the existing systems with proper justification.

Give advice to the mines as to what extra additional equipment they may need if they were to combine existing and new conveyor systems with proper justification.

4. A coal strip mining is designed to use dragline operation as illustrated below. The swell of the spoil is 1.25 to 1.30. You are required to design the effective radius R_e and select a dragline that is suitable to the mine. H_o = 16 m, H_c = 4.5 m, pit width = 40 m, Φ_o = Φ_c = 70°, θ = 40°.

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