Destress Blasting as a Mines Safety Tool: Some Fundamental Challenges for Successful Applications

Destress blasting in one of the tools to improve mines safety and it is one of the most valuable techniques to control the damaging effects of rockbursts. Evolution, mechanisms and application of destress blasting are discussed in a holistic manner so that challenges involved in the application of destress blasting can be appreciated. Discussions are also made to stresses and blasting in context with destressing so that new ideas can be infused in the technology of destress blasting to further improve the field application.