Analysis of Operating Costs Concering Blasting Works Using Electronic Initiation System for Explosives

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the operating costs in the specified geological-mining conditions on the basis of the mine exploiting dolomite aggregate. The authors gathered/acquired for two months research material on the execution method of blasting works, with particular emphasis on how to initiate explosive charges, which constituted the basis for evaluating the difference regarding applied blasting work parameters. The main objective of the research, for which the results are presented in this article was the impact analysis of applying the electronic initiation of explosive charges on the mining activity costs in the mining plant.