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Focus turns to nonexplosives-based rock breaking as quest for safer, more-efficient mining intensifies

ALTERNATIVES TO BLASTING

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Features Deputy Editor and Chief Photographer
 
MINING TECHNOLOGY
The South African mining industry, once the backbone of economic growth, intensive job creation and development, is declining constantly, owing to the slow rates of research and development into newer, safer, modernised, mechanised and continuous mining methods. A key pillar of improving mining efficiency and safety for personnel – as mining becomes deeper in search of orebodies – is using alternative rock-breaking methods to replace the legacy explosives-based methods.
 
 
 
 
 

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