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Influence Of Explosive Maximum Instantaneous Charge On Blasting Environmental Impact, Olukemi Yetunde Odeyemi, Blessing Olamide Taiwo, Olarewaju Alaba
Influence Of Explosive Maximum Instantaneous Charge On Blasting Environmental Impact, Olukemi Yetunde Odeyemi, Blessing Olamide Taiwo, Olarewaju Alaba
Journal of Sustainable Mining
Our research looked at the effect of explosive maximum instantaneous charge on ground vibrations and noise levels during blasting operations at the Calaba limestone quarry in Nigeria. Vibrock (V9000) seismograph was used to take readings related to ground vibrations and noise generated during all blasting operations that took place in the quarry for a period of one year. The results obtained indicate that the average ground vibration readings fall between 0.25mm/s to 3.6mm/s and the average noise decibel generated during the blasting operations between 35 to 158 dB. An artificial neural network (ANN) model is developed in this study for …