Brief Summary
We must be alive to get all the money we are dreaming and thinking about! Mining still remains the most lucrative business in the world with high impact on Technology Development.But the level of safety at the blasting operation cycle is minimal due to lack of sensitivity despite millions of Research work on this area.
This article was put together By Taiwo Blessing Olamide to sensitize the World mining sectors on the need to get involved in small scale mining to avoid unforeseen disaster.
What blasting may look like if picture from a perspective
Check below picture to have a view of what blasting is and what quantum physic can be involved in getting the rock fragmented
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Looking are many developed countries it becomes clearer that they are all functioning well in their large scale mines. Likewise the developing countries, they tends to have some level of success in the record of medium scale mining operations.
Taking a look at the small scale mining operations as a case study Nigeria and other Africa countries, most mining operations in artisanal and small mines are poorly monitored and design. Professional Mining engineers are kind of Given up on the local miner, instead of any form of assistance they set their compass on the direction where large mining thrives. Less attention has given to help, improve and monitored small mining operations because the large scale miners have all Earth equipment to get their mine cleaned and discretely planned.
This become my view and concern! That, though the small scale mining operators are abundoned but with time the large scale mines will soon fold up, reach the ultimate limit and come back to the small scale sites. In addition, the small scale miners might later cause damage to the Earth and bring aftereffect implication on the large scale mines and human existence at large.
Small mining firms are known for less safety concerns, less safety management and supervision.
looking from the direction of Blasting, small scale miners are not much concern about the effect of flyrock and it's causes, better worth how to minimize it.
They are less concerned about the effect of timing on blast fragmentation (Appreciating Professor Takis findings at Queen's University). This sectors are less aware about the aftermath effect of generated shock waves from excessive powder factor, how it can over break the wall, damage the unmined rock mass and reduce the stability of the mine slope completely.
Though we have our own mine safe and try not to show concern for the poor miner, neither do we have any plan to train, sensitize them on what they don't know. Before we try to mine for our own profit and mine development alone is time to begin a sustainable mining that check out others operation to avoid the future damage which is possible of affecting our mother Earth.
The ground itself has a stable stress field before the disturbance team called miner came, the induce stress resulting from excavation is capable of shifting all stress equilibrium into stress instability if proper control is not put in place. Each tectonic plate has it own respond to all the generated dynamic waves. But a time shall come when the plate will no longer be accommodative, then what can be done?
prevention is better than cure!
say no to poor blasting
support through mentorship, surveillance and supervision all blasting
manager must now be concern about the report of all blasting, not just how much tonnage do we get but how safe was the blast.
safety first
Before Fire in the Hole, Safety must be assured
Mine is safe
Blast it safe
Check!! Check!! And recheck before putting fire
