Small Mining Operations
Hard Rock 101: Small-Scale Blasting
August 2020 by John Norman
…the process remains much the same: Drill holes, load explosives, close up the holes, blast and muck out the resulting broken rock.
Small-Scale Hard Rock Production

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Most small-scale miners want to know how they can set up a system much more cheaply. The difficulty is in the balance of putting together a decent small-scale system at a reasonable cost.
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