Optimising a mining or a quarrying operation about the overall cost is
quite a challenge as there never is a situation where we have exactly the
same conditions regarding rock properties, explosives' performance,
mining equipment or evironmental restrictions. The amount of endless influencing parameters and variables make the
evaluation process difficult. The enormous progress we have seen during
the recent two decades in computing has however significantly increased
our ability to evaluate and process the information gathered, and refine
our existing prediction models. Refined models demand an increasing
volume of good quality information to show reliable conformity with
reality. There is a great need for co-operative work in the mining and
quarrying society if we shall be able to screen all available data,
systematically find the key-parameters influencing the results and to build
robust scientific models. No organisations today have all the skilled
people needed or can afford to hire the necessary specialists in all the
overlapping branches. This paper highlights some on-going work where the Dyno Explosives
Group is adding some new pieces to the giant jigsaw puzzle representing
the ultimate model of the mining and quarrying operations we all of this
society would like to see completed.