Efficient blast design facilitation systems and methods
AssigneeDatacloud International, Inc.
InventorsKrishna Srinivasan, Daniel Palmer
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Abstract
Respective embodiments disclosed herein include methods and apparatuses (1) for surveying a mine bench or other material body using at least seismic data obtained via geophone and measurement module data synchronized via a wireless link; (2) for generating hyperspectral panoramic imaging data of a blast hole or other borehole; or (3) for allowing a neural network to facilitate a differential blast design that targets a first bench part more weakly than the differential blast design targets a second bench part (along the same mine bench) at least partly based on data indicative of a much higher concentration of a valuable material in the second bench part than in the first.
Claims7
1-11. (canceled)
An energy-conscious differential blast implementation method comprising:
- obtaining seismic-while-drilling data acquired while drilling numerous blast holes distributed along a mine bench each in association with XYZ location data;
- selectively allowing a neural network to configure a differential blast design that targets a first bench part along the mine bench more weakly than the differential blast design targets a second bench part along the mine bench at least partly based on the seismic-while-drilling data acquired while drilling the numerous blast holes along the mine bench, wherein the differential blast design associates a first aggregate blast energy density (“D1”) with the first bench part, wherein the differential blast design associates a second aggregate blast energy density (“D2”) with the second bench part, wherein the differential blast design targets the first bench part more weakly insofar that D1<0.7*D2 as a conditional response to a geometric model indicating both a low aggregate concentration of a first target mineral in the first bench part and a high aggregate concentration of the first target mineral in the second bench part, and wherein the high aggregate concentration is more than twice the low aggregate concentration;
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- allowing the differential blast design to be transmitted to a remote resource.
An energy-conscious differential blast implementation system comprising:
- means for obtaining seismic-while-drilling data acquired while drilling numerous blast holes distributed along a mine bench each in association with XYZ location data;
- means for selectively allowing a neural network to configure a differential blast design that targets a first bench part along the mine bench more weakly than the differential blast design targets a second bench part along the mine bench at least partly based on the seismic-while-drilling data acquired while drilling the numerous blast holes along the mine bench, wherein the differential blast design associates a first aggregate blast energy density (“D1”) with the first bench part, wherein the differential blast design associates a second aggregate blast energy density (“D2”) with the second bench part, wherein the differential blast design targets the first bench part more weakly insofar that D1<0.7*D2 as a conditional response to a geometric model indicating both a low aggregate concentration of a first target mineral in the first bench part and a high aggregate concentration of the first target mineral in the second bench part, and wherein the high aggregate concentration is more than twice the low aggregate concentration;
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- means for allowing the differential blast design to be transmitted to a remote resource.
An energy-conscious differential blast implementation system comprising:
- means for obtaining seismic-while-drilling data acquired while drilling numerous blast holes distributed along a mine bench each in association with XYZ location data;
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- means for selectively allowing a neural network to configure a differential blast design that targets a first bench part along the mine bench more weakly than the differential blast design targets a second bench part along the mine bench at least partly based on the seismic-while-drilling data acquired while drilling the numerous blast holes along the mine bench, wherein the differential blast design associates a first aggregate blast energy density (“D1”) with the first bench part, wherein the differential blast design associates a second aggregate blast energy density (“D2”) with the second bench part, wherein the differential blast design targets the first bench part more weakly insofar that D1<0.7*D2 as a conditional response to a geometric model indicating both a low aggregate concentration of a first target mineral in the first bench part and a high aggregate concentration of the first target mineral in the second bench part, and wherein the high aggregate concentration is more than twice the low aggregate concentration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.