blasthole

[′blast‚hōl]

(engineering)

A hole that takes a heavy charge of explosive.

The hole through which water enters in the bottom of a pump stock.

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For instance, BHP Billiton is using Pit Viper 271 rotary blasthole drill rigs for its mining operations in Western Australia.

Global Copper Mining Market Report 2019 Featuring Codelco, Glencore, BHP Billiton, Southern Copper, Freeport

Crawler Drill Rig Market: Participants Examples of some of the participants operating across the value chain of the global crawler drill rig market are: Jupiter Rock Drills, Sandvik AB, Atlas Copco AB, Caterpillar, Epiroc Finland Oy Ab, Liebherr Group, KGR CRAWLER MOUNTING BLASTHOLE, Henan Jeao Heavy Industry Machinery Co., Ltd.KLR Industries Limited, The research report presents a comprehensive assessment of the market and contains thoughtful insights, facts, historical data, and statistically supported and industry-validated market data.

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Cat Tricone Drill Bits are designed for the most severe rotary blasthole applications, yet are cost effective for a wide range of drilling needs.

Cat Tricone Drill Bits Designed to Lower Drilling Costs

Caterpillar released the Cat MD6200 Rotary Blasthole Drill, which is a production rig that does pre-split drilling.

Transportable Cat Rig for Production or Pre-split Drilling

Blasthole condition data is captured with the BlastIQ Mobile device in near real-time, allowing data to be shared between operations and engineering personnel from anywhere on-site, at any time, empowering rapid decision making and improved operational efficiencies.

Australia : Optimising drill and blast operations with the next generation BlastIQ digital platform

As far back as 1962, blaster's knew that stemming was not required to blast, but stemming a blasthole with any material would increase the maximum effective burden.

STEMMING FOR LARGE BLASTHOLES: Blasters should not underestimate the value of proper stemming

CMI also supplies the mine's entire inventory of Atlas Copco DML series blasthole drills.

Equipping the mining industry in Alaska: N C Machinery and Construction Machinery Industrial fill niche market

Barloworld said that the order is for the supply, assembly and commissioning of three Cat 6060FS hydraulic face shovels, three 7495 electric rope shovels, six MD6290 rotary blasthole drill rigs, two MD6640 rotary blasthole drills and two C175 diesel engine motivators.

Barloworld to supply mining equipment to Husab

Atlas Copco (STO:ATCOA) (STO:ATCOB) said today that it has received an order to deliver Pit Viper 351 blasthole drilling rigs to Kumba Iron Ore, a unit of Anglo American.

Atlas Copco awarded SEK250m mining order in South Africa

The products divested by Terex in the deal include hydraulic mining excavators, electric drive mining trucks, track and rotary blasthole drills, and the highwall miner, as well as the related parts and aftermarket service businesses, including the company-owned distribution locations.

US Terex closes sale of mining ops to Bucyrus

Blasthole stoping will largely be used to mine at McWatters, though cut-and-fill methods will be used to reach the 150-metre level.

Liberty Mines revives Timmins-area producers: new life returning to McWatters, Hart, Redstone Mines

Bucyrus, which makes equipment used in surface mining, such as walking draglines, electric rope mining shovels and rotary blasthole drills, said the move would enable it to expand into underground mining equipment such as roof support systems, armored face conveyers, plows, shearers and continuous miners.