COMPUTER-AIDED MINING DEVELOPMENT AT OPEN PITS
For support of automated operations Blast Maker Company offers its CAD package for effective
drilling and blast operations at open pits
Introduction
Operation of most deposits is related
generally to the need for preliminary ripping of
rocks. To provide stripping and mining
operations on the rock-dominated pits it is
more reasonable economically and technically
to perform shattering of the separate blocks of
rock mass using the groups of borehole
charges. The volume of plug drilling and
blasting operations (oversized materials
crushing, removal of rock bars in the bench
toes, etc.) will depend on the quality of
preparation of single blasts, as well as
efficiency of following production operations
such as excavation, transportation and
additional ore milling for its processing.
Heterogeneous structural behavior of rocks
remains the main factor which makes difficult
to provide blasting operations and achieve the
required quality of rocks fragmentation.
Generally geological survey cannot
provide sufficient, accurate and detailed
information about the structure of the rock
mass and the strength of rocks within the area
of designed drilling and blasting operations as
the grid spacing of prospect wells is too large
and the environment is changing constantly as
a result of explosion of new blocks. Therefore,
basing on limited data, geologists and
engineers are focused on maximum strength of
rocks in the block in order to reduce
percentage of oversized materials. At average
it increases the costs for drilling and blasting
operations by 20-25% that leads to
overgrinding of rocks.
This circumstance explains the necessity to use
new techniques for operational monitoring of
the strength properties of rocks within the
limits of the crashed blocks.
As part of automated pre-production
operations Blast Maker Company offers
solutions for complex problems for effective
drilling and blasting operations in open pits.
One of effective measures to obtain the
information relevant to properties of the rock
mass exploded is the information obtained
directly from the drilling rig during blast holes
drilling, including such parameters as a
specific energy of drilling.
T h i s a p p r o a c h c a n p r ov i d e m o r e
opportunities because it does not breach the
existing technology of open pit operations and does
not require increasing costs to conduct geological
surveys concerned with the definition of physical
and strength characteristics of the rocks which
build the rock slab. In addition to the design
parameters of blasting operations and prediction of
results of explosion, the information on rocks
mechanics and its composition quality obtained
during the blast holes drilling may be used in
producing a digital model of the deposit, in
predicting pit-walls stability and many other
engineering and production problems.
These problems can be successfully solved
by Blast Maker, the specially developed
software and hardware complex (HSC) which
implements such approach in practice using
modern information technology and combines the
information and analytical software packages,
provides the software and technical means for
collection, processing and transmission of data
from the drilling rig.
The introduction of HSC includes the following
objectives:
to increase the labor efficiency of the
specialists in preparing drilling and blasting
operations by reducing the share of manual
works when performing the routine and labor-
intensive procedures;
to increase the efficiency and operationability
in designing the single blasts on open-pits;
to reduce the consumption of explosives by
optimizing the location of boreholes and the
rational distribution of hole charges;
to increase the labor efficiency when
performing the drilling operations through the
continuous monitoring of drilling practices;
to improve the efficiency of drilling equipment
utilization through the implementation of fair
monitoring of use of drilling machinery.
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These goals can be achieved through
the integration of automatic operations
performed in the design and implementation of
drilling and blasting operations in open pits,
including:
implementation of computer-aided design
and optimization software package for DBO
(drilling and blasting operations);
implementation of software and hardware
f o r m o n i t o r i n g t h e c h a ra c t e r i s t i c
parameters and procedures of real-time
boreholes drilling;
implementation of a continuous open-pit
mapping considering drilling and explosive
abilities of rocks;
preparation of summary reports for the
relevant departments and services on the
implementation of DBO;
providing the specialists with an access to
the statistical and analytical information
stored in database of Blast Maker
software and hardware complex.
The Complex Information Basis
To guarantee the efficiency of mining
operations it is necessary to have complete
information about rock mass explored. As a
rule the rock mass surveys are provided on the
stage of geological exploration and then
continued within development of a deposit.
Data concentration in a single information
system provides the complete set of required
rock mass mechanics and monitoring their
changing dynamics, observing the regular
patterns and correlations of different
properties, ensuring the operative planning of
mining operations and costs saving. The
present level of computer technologies allows
raising the information support for design
solutions of mining operations at a higher level.
The digital model of a deposit
constitutes the information base of the whole
Blast Maker system. The model
accumulates the basic technology and physical
mechanical properties of open-pit rock mass
that ensures a higher performance in designing
the mining operations.
As any mathematical model it reflects the simple
and partial essence but at the same time it includes
a rather extensive set of tools that allows obtaining
basic parameters which are considered in
preparation of single blasting. This factor
determines the composition and content of the
database system, which is necessary for the
efficient operation of the software-hardware
complex as a whole. The deposit model algorithms
and programming provide following:
Spatial values analysis by methods of ordinary
kriging and inverse weighting coefficients;
Visualization of a spatial distribution of physical
mechanical properties of rocks and orebodies;
Evaluation of spatial trends and anisotropy;
Calculation of average cutoff and tonnage of
ore blocks.
Most digital models use block structure for
representation of physical parameters. Herewith
the all space of the deposit is divided into
elementary units of a given shape, which
parameter values is considered to be permanent.
The DBO computer-aided design systems apply the
method of irregular nodal elements and a special
mathematical tools technique that guarantee
successful use of the method for modeling a
deposit.
In this situation the deposit is represented as a field
of distribution of properties of the rock mass with
key elements located on the points of its known
parameters. It may be a percentage value of
minerals content, rock density, its fracturing,
energy intensity, water content, rock velocity and
any other features of the rocks obtained during the
stages of exploration and development of a
deposit.
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It is necessary to distinguish functional
features of a digital model of the deposit from
the rock mechanics database. The database
provides storage, update and selection of
values that characterize the rock mass
properties at certain points where these values
have been measured. Digital model design is
intended to simulate the spread of a particular
parameter throughout the whole volume of a
deposit on approximation basis. The database
operates the points where the measurements
were taken, while the digital model is
determining the values in certain nodal points
by interpolation. In addition, a digital model
allows identify common numerical
characteristics (estimation of reserves,
amount of mining, etc.), and perform zoning of
deposits on different features. Therefore, the
source of original data for the deposit digital
model is based on properties database of the
rock mass.
The database information content of
Blast Maker system must be carried out in
stages. Initial stage of data preparation
involves the manual input of information on
geological structure, pit geometry and
information necessary to start the automated
design of drilling and blasting operations. The
corresponding open pit facilities collect the
source data for this information.
System operations are followed with the
continuous gathering and processing of
information from drilling equipment.
The system of collecting the data received from
drilling equipment is based on the methods of
determining the strength properties of the rock
mass according to energy intensity of drilling. One
of the most successful energy criteria is the specific
energy of drilling, which depends on such
parameters as a load on the cone roller bit (axial
pressure), the well-section, type of cone roller bits,
the speed of the drill rig, the torque of the cone
roller bit, drilling time, etc.
The proper data processing may provide calculation
of drilling energy distribution, strength properties
of rocks and large fractions along the depth of the
borehole. The rocks can be identified after
accumulating sufficient statistic data.
However, besides the rock properties the
parameters measured during drilling operations
may reflect the state of the drilling equipment.
The data on each drilled borehole is
transferred to the database system, and then it is
used in the digital model for clarification of
geological structure of designed blocks.
Complete information on all previously
designed and produced blasting operations
plus parameters and drilling techniques of
all drilled boreholes shall provide a real
opportunity for adaptive control of DBO.
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Blast Maker CAD package

Single blasting simulation module. This
Computer-aided design package for module is designed to assess the quality of the
drilling and blasting operations (DBO CAD) is blasting operation and predict the parameters of
an integral part of Blast Maker HSC and the broken rock disintegration;
designed to perform procedures concerned Data import and export module. The module
with preparation of technical documentation provides interfacing of the CAD package with the
for production drilling and blasting operations DBO software of third-parties that will be used in
at open pit mines. mining;
The structure of the CAD package Documentation output module.
consists of a set of separate modules that can
The module is designed for graphics and analytical
operate in complex or independently. This
works related to preparation and production of
approach provides opportunity to vary the
design documentation for single blasting operation.
package configurations according to the
amount of tasks of the mining enterprise. Data
exchange between the individual modules is
performed through the single database
containing all the necessary information for the
CAD package.

The main modules of CAD package are:

Deposit digital model.
The module is designed for collection, analysis
and storage of geological, physical, mechanical
data and process 3D information about the
deposit;
Open pit surface digital model.
The module provides digital mapping of the
open pit surface and mining-geometric
analysis;
DBO design module.
The module is designed to calculate the
parameters of single blasting and placement of
boreholes on the block exploded;
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The functional capabilities of CAD
package allow obtaining the rational design
solutions considering parameters of the
geological environment, resource support and
technical requirements for blasting as well as
technical and economic requirements to the
quality of explosion, etc.
Design and preparation of
documentation for single blasting procedure
with use of DBO CAD package includes a
sequential execution of the following stages:
1. Drilling operations plan based on
predicted values of rock properties of the
exploded block.
2. Blasting procedure preparation based
on actually drilled boreholes and
measurements of the strength properties of
build rocks.
Drilling operations plan includes the
layout of borehole charges within the exploded
block on a basis of its strength properties.
Computation of boreholes spacing in areas
with different types of rocks shall be based on
information obtained from pit geological
surveys as well as on data on drilling energy of
overlying and adjacent blocks. The result of
these procedures will be a list of coordinates
and depths of boreholes, which, with specified
types of explosives, will provide elaboration of
soles and ensure the desired granulation of
blasted rock. In general, due to the structural
heterogeneity of the rock mass, the planned
boreholes may be positioned in the nodes of an
irregular grid with a variable step.
Blasting preparations is based on the actual
coordinates and depths of drilled boreholes. The
measurements carried out after drilling the block
are used for correcting calculation of characteristics
of borehole charges (a type of explosive, the mass
and design of the charge) in order to achieve an
acceptable quality of explosives at the average
yield of conditioned pieces of a given size. At the
same time the strength properties of rocks are
determined on the basis of values of drilling energy
obtained in the process of holes drilling.
Computer-aided design of drilling and
blasting operations using Blast Maker
package provides an optimal placement of
boreholes considering the block geometry
and rock properties as well as rational
distribution of hole charges for the most
efficient rock crushing. In high intensity of
open pit mining operations Blast Maker
package provides the operative, diverse and
optimal design solutions in design of DBO.
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KOBUS automatic data collecting
system
An important part of Blast Maker
software and hardware package is the
automatic system for collecting and
transmitting data received from the drilling
facilities (ADCS) KOBUS which includes:
KOBUS drilling rig controller;
Sensors;
Wireless data transmission equipment;
Receiver and antennas of GPS /
GLONASS Global Navigation Satellite
System (GNSS);
KOBUS Base Station software
package intended open pit
dispatcher offices;
Client software for operations with data
created and gathered during the
operation of the complex.
ADCS equipment installed on drilling facilities
is capable for twenty-four-hours and all-year
operation in dust-air conditions and can
withstand considerable vibration.
1. KOBUS drilling rig controller
The basis of ADCS is the KOBUS
controller developed by company specialists
and designed for measuring and preprocessing
the signals received from drilling rig sensors
connected to the controller.
KOBUS controller is manufactured in
accordance with TU UHLZ 4012-001-
23364199-2011 specifications and is designed
to operate over a wide range of climatic and
operating conditions. The production quality of
KOBUS controller is certified by Kyrgyz
Republic and Russian Federation.
To inform the drilling rig operator the
controller is supplied with a built-in color TFT-LCD
that displays the current settings and modes of
drilling:
operator ID;
block number;
borehole number;
set depth of drilling;
current depth of drilling;
drilling speed;
axial instrument pressure;
rotation speed;
tilt angle when leveling (if tilt sensor
available);
rotator current in drilling tool
(electrical machines);
rotator voltage in drilling tool
(electrical machines);
pressure in the hydraulic system of
rotator (hydraulic machines);
pressure in the hydraulic system of axial
thrust (hydraulic machines);
air pressure in the pneumatic system;
current date and time, etc.
The device has a 16-button keyboard
enabling operator to input the additional
identification information:
block number;
borehole number;
operator ID;
tool information;
current state of the drilling machine
(operation mode or downtime, its type);
borehole depth (if necessary to change the
design depth), etc.
To attract the attention of the operator when
reaching the required depth or in case of
emergency the controller has a sound transducer
(beeper).
To organize data exchange between the
controller and computer in control center it is
supplied with 10Base-T/100Base-TX Ethernet
interface port which allows connection to the
standard equipment applied in wired or wireless
local area networks.
Controller operation is carried out under
control of onboard microcontroller in accordance
with a program installed in the internal permanent
memory.
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2. Sensors 3. Wireless data transmission equipment

To transform the physical values that To provide wireless transmission of data
characterize the drilling modes and parameters collected into the open-pit radio network with a
into electrical signals the following sensors further transmission to the server the user terminal
(supplied with antenna from the radio equipment
(sensing element) are to be installed in the
set) is installed on the drilling rig and connects to
drilling rig and connected to the ADCS KOBUS controller.
controller:
pressure sensor in the hydraulic system
of rotator (hydraulic machines);
pressure sensor in the hydraulic system
of axial thrust (hydraulic machines);
rotator current sensor in drilling tool
(electrical machines);
rotator voltage sensor in drilling tool
(electrical machines);
current sensor of axial thrust drive
(electrical machines);
voltage sensor of axial pressure drive
(electrical machines);
rod changer sensor (electrical machines);
angle sensors (as a separate order); 4. KOBUS Base Station software package
vibration sensors (as a separate order); All data received from drilling rigs come to
air pressure sensor, etc. the Base Station in real time mode over the air. Any
In addition the ADCS applies the standard modern operations server installed in the control
sensors of a drilling rig: room or administrative office can be used as a Basic
Station of the company. The Station must connect
depth sensor;
to the open-pit radio network and the local area
rotation speed sensor;
and other sensors that may be installed network (LAN) of the company. KOBUS Base
Station software shall be installed on the server to
by the client after consultation with the
provide following:
supplier.
accounting, registration and management of
the radio network in all KOBUS controllers
located at the pit;
receiving, processing and preservation of
information coming from drilling facilities;
preparing reports about operation
parameters and use of drilling facilities.

5. Client software for data operations.

ADCS includes a number of client software to
enable the company personnel to perform
convenient and efficient operations with data
created and gathered during the complex
operations.
Data handling can be performed on any
modern personal computers (PCs) connected to
the company LAN which have installed the
appropriate user (client) software which
have an access to network resources of a
database server.
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KobusInfoCenter software module is
designed to display statistical information on
the progress and use of company drilling
facilities (the workplace of the Head of drilling
office).
GrafView module is designed to view
the parameters associated with the process of
boreholes drilling including drilling energy; this
software allows observing the parameters of
drilling at each borehole (the workplace of
geologist and geophysicist).
Kobus Test Center Pro, the program
module which is designed to monitor the
operation of equipment for collecting data
from drilling facilities (KOBUS controller,
sensors and user terminals) (the workplace of
the personnel maintaining the data collection
system).
KobusBinding and KobusAddMachine software
modules are designed to perform functions related
to system management (the workplace of the
System Administrator).
Tabel and TotalMonit software modules
are intended for visual monitoring of the state of
drilling facilities (operational or not, a reason for
downtime), emergency situations or violations of
labor and technological discipline, the state of
radio communication with drilling facilities, and
others.
KobusGPSMap software ensures
additional information and opportunities
providing the mapping of drilling facilities on pit
layout or its section from information obtained
from GNSS receivers, if they are included in the
complex and, therefore, installed on the drilling
machines and connected to the data collection
controller (dispatcher's workplace).
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In addition, any allowed technical
specialist or company executive who is
interested in receiving information from the
complex (if he has installed corresponding
client software on his PC) may have an access
to the server complex over the LAN, and
usually can:
view shift and monthly reports;
view and print standard reports;
create and print optional custom reports;
work with information about drilling
facilities (revise it);
view the information about violations
and downtime of drilling facilities at any
time.
Based on information obtained the
System user can also control:
amount and number of machines
operated;
metreage of boreholes drilled for the
different intervals;
actual and standard consumption of drill
bits;
violations of technological discipline, etc.
The use of broad-band wireless data
transmission technologies in open pit mining.
To ensure the operation of ADCS equipment
the radio network with a sufficient transfer capacity
must be deployed on the open pit. It must
guarantee the data translation from drilling
facilities to the KOBUS base station server.
With the development of advanced
technologies in the mining industry there is a need
to transfer large amounts of information between
the divisions of the company in real time using
video surveillance systems on open pits and
company production departments, etc. As a rule,
the mining industries use the voice translation
radio networks having a very low transfer capacity
which disable to improve these features through
the minor upgrade. Implementation of advanced
production technologies as a rule leads to the
installation of broadband wireless access network
(BWA). The introduction of BWA requires
consideration of many factors such as geographic
location of the pit, the terrain complexity, the
radius of network coverage, the volume of
information transmitted, need for resource
reservation, etc. It must be noted that before using
the wireless technology the company requires a
frequency assignment issued by the relevant
services.
The costs of implementing BWA are
sufficiently high and depend on network size i.e.
the number of repeater stations which should be
placed around the perimeter of the pit in order to
ensure full coverage. However these costs will pay
for itself by producing an entirely new quality of
communication and opportunities to develop a
system which will meet changing business needs.
Currently, the most preferred technologies for BWA
to be used in mining will include Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and
MESH.
Given that the supply main is an constantly
operated area network it may have frequent
shutdown which lead to a partial or a total lack of
communication. To prevent such situations the
radio repeater stations should use uninterruptible
power supply units with reserve period
at least for 3-4 hours.
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Coordinates setting and positioning
drilling facilities
(GPS / GLONASS)
For higher and complete performance
of opportunities designed in Blast Maker
package for automatic open pit drilling and
blasting operations it is recommended also to
introduce the subsystems for positioning
drilling facilities based on the use of precise
receivers of GPS / GLONASS Global Satellite
Navigation System (GNSS stations) to
determine the actual coordinates of drilled
boreholes (Coordinates subsystem) and
guide a drilling rig on a new borehole in
automatic mode (Navigation subsystem).
In addition to the existing capabilities of PTC
the introduction of Coordinates subsystem
will allow:
automatically determine the actual
position of drilled boreholes within
0,25m with reference to the drilling
foreman, borehole number of and all
measured drilling parameters, and
including the transfer of the coordinates
to the server and the DBO CAD software
packages;
using KOBUS controller to introduce
the drilling foreman with drilling
operations plan and current location of
the drilling rig;
select the block number and boreholes
number directly on the controller's LCD
without data input from the keyboard
(therefore the drilling operations plan
must be transferred over the air to the
KOBUS controllers connected to
drilling rigs);
using KobusGPSMap client software to
provide the real-time information for a
dispatcher on the actual location of all
drilling rigs.
Navigation subsystem introduction may be
performed after implementation of Contacts
subsystem introduction that will allow
controlling the movement of a drilling facility
(using standard movement console of a drilling
facility) when changing the borehole orienting
on KOBUS controller's readings or using the
remote LED matrix display which shows the
current momentary location of a drilling facility
towards the selected borehole in accordance
with the design.
To implement the subsystems positioning of
drilling rigs it needs:
GNSS base station;
Dual antenna GNSS stations for each
drilling facility.
GNSS equipment can be purchased from
manufacturer's authorized dealers in countries of
their operations with exact specifications provided
by Blast Maker Company.
Recommended GNSS stations guarantee the quick
startup, the best satellites tracking, high accuracy
and significantly probability to detect the satellites
when it is applied in deep pits and deposits located
in the extreme northern areas.
KOBUS controller has a feedback link which
allows transferring any
changes in block design
grid to the office; the
original software provides
easy adaptation to the
existing coordinates
system applied on the pit.
Design coordinates of
boreholes displayed by
KOBUS controller allow
real-time positioning of
the drilling rig at the
selected hole.
Herewith, the drilling course shall not depend on
external factors such as weather conditions, snow
cover or the darkness. Also it excludes the need of
rendering the boreholes coordinate on the block
that might require usually about 40% of the time
for preparing the blasting procedure.
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BlastMaker introduction features
To describe the structure of the rock
mass and modeling of rock explosion using
Blast Maker HSC the complex mathematical
models must be applied with the use of various
computer methods and algorithms. The values
of the most coefficients of these models are
determined by mathematical statistics
methodology using actual data of properties of
the environment exploded. As experience
shows, each open pit has unique physical,
mechanical and structural properties of the
rock mass which ultimately determine the
nature of the explosion energy dissipation and
the rate of rocks crushing.
Therefore the introduction
Blast Maker HSC into the production
process requires a pre-adaptation to real
conditions of a particular deposit due to the
incompleteness of the initial parameters of the
simulated environment.
The information content of database of
Blast Maker HSC during the process of
adaptation shall be based on the following
components:
geological design information obtained
from exploration drilling;
geological data updates at production
drilling;
data on drilling energy parameters of the
blocks exploded;
expert reports on factual blasting
operations performed on open pits.
HSC adaptation is the sufficiently long
process and runs for several stages. Originally it
requires collecting and processing of data
required for preliminary determination of values
of setting coefficients applied in mathematical
models and computer algorithms. The same time
it requires the data input in digital model and
creation of templates of output documents in
accordance with company document flow when
performing drilling and blasting operations. At the
system trial stage, according to the level of
obtained operational information, it clarifies the
correlation functions of the strength and the
blasting resistance of rocks depending on the
energy parameters of drilling; it matches the best
options to filter the data obtained from drilling
facilities; it also adjust parameters for computer
algorithm with an aim of the best possible fit of
the computer modeling to the factual blasting.
After fine setting of all modules and
components of the system it starts the full
commercial operation of Blast Maker HSC.
To achieve the maximum efficiency it
requires complete adaptation to the conditions of
the pit that is possible only after accumulation of
large amounts of data, after series of
experimental blasting and correlation adjustment
between drilling energy density and specific
energy of explosion, etc. A large work will be
required for system implementation in the
existing technology of drilling and blasting
operations.
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Blast Maker effectiveness creating conditions for adaptive control of

A systematic approach to the
preparation and design of individual stages of
open pit DBO is observed at all stages of
implementation of Blast Maker HSC. It is
the condition for creation of effective
technology of single blasts which will allow
selecting the rational design solutions for
drilling and blasting operations during deposit
development process.
The main expected results of
implementing the system are following:
improve of efficiency of monitoring of
drilling and blasting equipment and
operations;
use of actual mining and geological
information about the rock mechanics in
consequence of processing the data
received from a drilling rig;
display of technical solutions developed
through the use of computer graphics;
capability for modeling the interaction of
elements of the "charge-environment"
system and predicting the results of
fragmentation;
capability for optimizing the charge
design;
parameters of open pit drilling
and blasting operations.
The experience of
i m p l e m e n t i n g Blast Maker HSC in other
entities proves that economic efficiency will be
achieved by following:
improvement of explosion quality due to the
optimal energy saturation of a destroyed rock;
prompt monitoring of equipment
and operations performed on the pits;
use of the appropriate drill bits for on different
rocks (also due to the use the optimal drilling
modes it allows achieving the maximum pos-
sible comprehensive resource of a bit);
automation of design process of DBO when
the preparation of the drilling and blasting
operation plan is greatly reduced.
The economic effect of implementation of Blast
Maker HSC results from 10% savings obtained
from reduced costs on explosives and holes boring
and 8%increasein productivity of mining equipment
due to improved quality of rock mass fragmentation.
For example, on open-cast "Razrez Tugnuisky" of
JSC "SUEK" the economic effect during the three
years of Blast Maker usage amounted 510 million
roubles.

The full system implementation provides not only a significant reduce of the costs on DBO but
also improves the quality of blasting operations and provides operational control of
equipment and operations performed on the pit. Complete information on all previously
designed and produced blasting operations, parameters and drilling modes of all drilled
boreholes provide a real opportunity for adaptive control over DBO. It leads
to 10-15% savings from the total cost of drilling and blasting operations which
constitute, as a rule, one-third of all costs of a mining enterprise.
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Our Partners are:

ICIT
Institute of Communications and Information Technologies
ICIT KRSU

Kirghiz-Russian Slavic University

KRSU

International Science And Technology Center

Maxam Corp.S.A. (Spain)

The cole des Mines MINES ParisTech (Paris)

Kumtor Gold Company

Centerra Gold Inc.

Our clients are:

JSC RAZREZ TUGNUSKY of SUEK Co., Sagan-Nur, Russia (coal mining)

JSC KARELSKY OKATYSH of SEVERSTAL Co., Kostomuksha, Russia (iron mining)

JSC KOSTANAY MINERALS, Zhitikara, Kazakhstan (asbestos mining) JSC

SSGPO, Rudny, Kazakhstan (iron mining)

JSC POLYMETAL INTERNATIONAL , Saint-Petersburg, Russia, (gold and etc.)

JSC ALROSA, Aikhal Mining, Russia, (diamond)

Contacts:

LLC Blast Maker

Kievskaya st., 44
720000 Bishkek,
Kyrgyz Republic

tel: +996 (312) 66-01-40

e-mail:blastmaker@istc.kg

www.blastmaker.kg