[miningmx.com] – ANGLO American Platinum (Amplats) has started trialling a new underground blasting technique employing emulsion explosives to improve safety as well as productivity, said Reuters.
The technology could save lives because live explosives will no longer be carried through shafts where miners are working, the newswire said.
“This is really key to the technology because it limits the amount of time spent transporting explosives because there are fewer legal restrictions,” said Selwyn Pearton, operations manager at BME, a unit of explosives company Omnia Holdings, which developed the technology for Amplats.
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