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Carly Leonida asked four key companies about current blasting practices and technologies in the surface mining market

25 October 2013
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The bulk explosives most widely used in today’s surface mining industry are ammonium nitrate (AN)-based. Falling under this umbrella are emulsions and ammonium nitrate fuel oil, better known as ANFO.

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