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Friday, May 30, 2014

Limestone Mining in Pictures

In this post I have attempted to summarize the limestone mining process in pictorial form (and a video). Short descriptions have been included where necessary.

Overburden Removal



once the overburden is removed, the beds are cleaned and are prepared for drilling

Drilling


drilling is performed according to a pre determined pattern to accomodate explosives for blasting

Blasting



Rock Blasting is performed to fragment and loosen the consolidated limestone.

Loading and Hauling




Dispatching