Thread: World's largest mining blast

Originally Posted by Greatsouthernland

Had remembered to keep the windows down just a bit to avoid w/screen breakage (apparently that's happened when others had done it ).

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Results from blast pressure. (sucks everything in then let's it all back out again).

Regards
Andrew

Originally Posted by Greatsouthernland

one time...this 'guy' took a visitor (his brother) u/g for a blast (decline 5*5*3m). Parked one level above in an empty stockpile and waited (meshed, 1:9 so about 180m plus about 20m past next vent drive, say 200m round the bend.

Had remembered to keep the windows down just a bit to avoid w/screen breakage (apparently that's happened when others had done it ).

Look on the visitor's face - priceless
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I could imagine!!! I remember my first shift on charge up,the noise from the blast was incredible the sound was very similar to my navy days on HMAS Derwent when we would fire the big guns on the bow bloody awesome.

I must admit i get a kick out of blowing up rocks