Systems for automated blast design planning and methods related thereto
AssigneeDyno Nobel Inc.
InventorsScott Giltner, Rufus E. Flinchum, Jeffrey Averett, Joseph Nawrocki, Jr.
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Abstract
A system, method, or apparatus for generating a blast plan that can receive blast data comprising geological properties of a blast site, blasthole parameters, and available explosive product. A pattern footage can be determined based on a relationship between the face height, the specific energy of the available explosive product, and the geological properties of the bench. The burden and spacing can be determined from the pattern footage.
Claims20
A system for generating a blast plan, the system comprising:
- a memory device to store location data for a blast site acquired from one or more sources;
- a processing unit to:
- determine geological properties for the blast site from the location data;
- generate profiles of portions of the blast site with the geological properties;
- generate a model of the blast site;
- generate a blast plan for the model based on the geological properties and the profiles, the blast plan comprising an arrangement of blastholes, and explosives to be used for each of the blastholes.
A method for generating a blast plan, the method comprising:
- determining geological properties for a blast site from location data;
- generating profiles of portions of the blast site with the geological properties;
- generating a model of the blast site;
- and
- generating a blast plan for the model based on the geological properties and the profiles, the blast plan comprising an arrangement of blastholes, and explosives to be used for each of the blastholes.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium including instructions that when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:
- determine geological properties for a blast site from location data;
- generate profiles of portions of the blast site with the geological properties;
- generate a model of the blast site;
- and
- generate a blast plan for the model based on the geological properties and the profiles, the blast plan comprising an arrangement of blastholes, and explosives to be used for each of the blastholes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.