The hard truth

Dr Brendon Lilly, product manager for drill and blast at Leica Geosystems Mining, looks at how the use of drill guidance systems can influence fragmentation

01 July 2014
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Traditional approaches to extracting material have nearly always involved drilling holes in the ground, filling the holes with some type of explosive and blasting the ground to fracture it

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