An explosives delivery vehicle for delivering a booster for initiating an explosion of an explosive material in a hole in a floor of a mine pit to an operative depth in the hole. The vehicle comprises a storage assembly for storing a plurality of the boosters, a booster loading assembly for (i) supporting the booster in a delivery position above the hole and (ii) moving the booster downwardly into the hole and inserting the booster at an operative depth in the hole; and a delivery assembly for transporting the booster from the storage assembly to the loading assembly.

An explosives delivery vehicle for delivering a booster for initiating an explosion of an explosive material in a hole in a floor of a mine pit to an operative depth in the hole. The vehicle comprises a storage assembly for storing a plurality of the boosters, a booster loading assembly for (i) supporting the booster in a delivery position above the hole and (ii) moving the booster downwardly into the hole and inserting the booster at an operative depth in the hole; and a delivery assembly for transporting the booster from the storage assembly to the loading assembly.

A deep-sea mining device is sunk to a seabed mining area. A window of an exploding wire unit of a pulse exploding wire group is aligned to an exploding area. A strong pulse current is applied to an exploding wire of the exploding wire unit by an intense pulse power supply, and the exploding wire of the exploding wire unit and seawater in an exploding wires area are vaporized to generate shock waves, thereby breaking rocks through the impact of the seawater. The instantaneous high pressure causes the shock waves to crush the ore bed, and the pressure of the shock waves generated by the explosion of the exploding wire can be controlled by controlling the pulse voltage and current, so as to control the crushing head to crush rocks with different thicknesses.

An explosives delivery vehicle for delivering a booster (65) for initiating an explosion of an explosive material in a hole (90) in a floor (91) of a mine pit to an operative depth in the hole. The vehicle comprises a storage assembly (10) for storing a plurality of the boosters, a booster loading assembly (30) for (i) supporting the booster in a delivery position above the hole and (ii) moving the booster downwardly into the hole and inserting the booster at an operative depth in the hole; and a delivery assembly (20) for transporting the booster from the storage assembly to the loading assembly.

An explosives delivery vehicle for delivering a booster (65) for initiating an explosion of an explosive material in a hole (90) in a floor (91) of a mine pit to an operative depth in the hole. The vehicle comprises a storage assembly (10) for storing a plurality of the boosters, a booster loading assembly (30) for (i) supporting the booster in a delivery position above the hole and (ii) moving the booster downwardly into the hole and inserting the booster at an operative depth in the hole; and a delivery assembly (20) for transporting the booster from the storage assembly to the loading assembly.

A deep-sea mining device is sunk to a seabed mining area. A window of an exploding wire unit of a pulse exploding wire group is aligned to an exploding area. A strong pulse current is applied to an exploding wire of the exploding wire unit by an intense pulse power supply, and the exploding wire of the exploding wire unit and seawater in an exploding wires area are vaporized to generate shock waves, thereby breaking rocks through the impact of the seawater. The instantaneous high pressure causes the shock waves to crush the ore bed, and the pressure of the shock waves generated by the explosion of the exploding wire can be controlled by controlling the pulse voltage and current, so as to control the crushing head to crush rocks with different thicknesses.

The present invention regards a detonator support device (1) configured for internally supporting an elongated detonator unit (3), the detonator support device (1) exhibits an upper end (5) and a lower end (7) and comprises a first elongated sidewall (9) hingedly coupled to a second elongated sidewall (11) via a hinge member (13), a latching member (15) of the detonator support device (1) is wall (11) in a closed state. A first cord clamping surface (17) of the first elongated sidewall (9) is configured to come in position opposite a second cord clamping surface (19) of the second elongated sidewall (11) in said closed state for engagement with at least one cord member (21). The present invention further regards a method of preparing a detonator support device and a blasting system (100).

The present invention regards a detonator support device (1) configured for internally supporting an elongated detonator unit (3), the detonator support device (1) exhibits an upper end (5) and a lower end (7) and comprises a first elongated sidewall (9) hingedly coupled to a second elongated sidewall (11) via a hinge member (13), a latching member (15) of the detonator support device (1) is wall (11) in a closed state. A first cord clamping surface (17) of the first elongated sidewall (9) is configured to come in position opposite a second cord clamping surface (19) of the second elongated sidewall (11) in said closed state for engagement with at least one cord member (21). The present invention further regards a method of preparing a detonator support device and a blasting system (100).

A system for drilling one or more boreholes in a face of a mine passage including markers attached to the mine passage. A drilling machine includes one or more drills for drilling the one or more boreholes, and a first sensor for sensing a position of the markers. Based on the sensed position of the at least two markers, a computer determines: (i) a survey vector generally parallel to the line; and (ii) a face plane generally orthogonal to the survey vector and coincident with a location where the survey vector intersects the face. A controller may be provided for automatically controlling the feeding of the drill(s) based on the location of the face plane and the back plane to form the boreholes in the face. A back plane may also be determined to ensure that all boreholes are drilled to a corresponding depth. Related methods are also disclosed.

An integrated hole sealing, device includes a capsule plug, an outer capsule having a first hole site, an inner capsule having a second hole site, a capsule water injection pipe, a borehole water injection pipe and a tapered plug. Two ends of the outer capsule and the inner capsule are respectively fixed on the capsule plug and the tapered plug. The capsule plug, the tapered plug, the outer capsule and the inner capsule form a closed hollow cylindrical cavity. A middle part of the inner capsule is a hollow pipeline, and two ends thereof respectively correspond to the first and second hole sites. The borehole water injection pipe passes through the hollow cylindrical cavity. A part, located in the hollow cylindrical cavity, of the borehole water injection pipe is telescopically wound outside the inner capsule. The capsule water injection pipe passes through the capsule plug and extends into the hollow cylindrical cavity.