Drill and blast tutorial

Introduction

Overview

Requirements

Workflow - blast patterns

Workflow - presplit holes

Drill and blast concepts

Drilling

Blast boundary

Blast solid

Tie in patterns

Blasting

Reports and volume calculations

Setting up for this tutorial

Setting the work directory

Task: Set the work directory

Displaying the toolbar and menubar

Display the blastdesign toolbar and menubar

Viewing blast design defaults

Task: Viewing the blast design defaults

Task: Modify rock mass classification (RMC) polygons

Designing a blast pattern using RMC polygons

Task: Design a blast pattern using auto spacing and burden from polygons

Task: Design a blast pattern with north/south orientation

Task: Design a blast pattern with more than one burden and spacing

Load and tie in a firing pattern

Task: Unload a blast pattern from the blast database

Task: Charge all holes

Task: Tie in a diagonal firing pattern

Task: Upload Tie in pattern to the blast database

Task: Tie in a V firing pattern

Task: Tie in a customised firing pattern

Create a blast boundary and blast solid

Task: Unload a blast pattern from the blast database

Task: Create blast boundary string

Task: Create blast solid

Create a blast report

Task: Recall the pit pickup string file and blast pattern

Task: Generate a blast summary report

Task: Generate a blast work order report

Pre-split holes

Task: Creating pre-split holes along a segment

Task: Creating pre-split holes along a straight line

Blast database concepts

Task: Examine tables and fields in a drill and blast database

Task: Create a new drill and blast database

Task: Upgrade a Surpac v5.0 blast database

Loading the blast database

Task: Load sample intervals into a database