Abstract

The practice of mining and blasting operations both during the development of a mineral deposits, and at the mine design stage, often involves the question of selecting the technology options and operation parameters. Virtually all recommendations for selecting the best production option are based on minimizing the total costs for the entire technological cycle of mining activities. In most cases the optimal technology and parameters of mining and blasting operations depend on the commercial, maximum permissible and average size of the blasted rock mass, which are determined by the type and capacity of the mining haulage equipment. Therefore, the total costs will mainly depend on the commercial or average lump size and the cost of mining transport equipment. The article presents a methodology to select the best technological option for the drilling and blasting operations to obtain the optimal lumpiness (particle-size distribution) of the blasted rock. The optimal range of lumpiness is defined by the total minimum costs for the entire production cycle of mining and processing of minerals. In order to select a rational technology of drilling and blasting and to calculate their parameters it is proposed to take into account the integral criteria of lumpiness in addition to the average lump size. For this purpose, we studied the particle size distribution in the rock mass and in the muck piles.

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