Every wanted to see what it’s like to work at a mine but too afraid to ask ...
A very impressive BHP video taken at a central Qld coal mine, BHP’s Caval Ridge …
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- BHP Mitsubishi Alliance’s (BMA) Caval Ridge Mine in the Bowen Basin now holds the title of the world’s largest electronic blast completed using Dyno Nobel DigiShot technology.
- The blast in December saw 4.7 million cubic metres of overburden shifted in a blast fired with 2,194 tonnes of bulk explosives across 3,899 holes. Caval Ridge Drill and Blast Superintendent Dallas Gostelow said the blast was loaded over 14 days, involving engineers, schedulers and the E and F Blast crews. It involved a combination of four related blast patterns, using 8,144 detonators, a significant number Dallas said they had never set before at the one time.
- Boom …