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Changes in the relative costs of blasting in hard rocks due to an increase in the blast-hole charge diameter

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G. V. Plekhanov Mining Institute, Leningrad. Translated from Fiziko-Tekhnicheskie Problemy Razrabotki Poleznykh Iskopaemykh, No. 5, pp. 54–57, September–October, 1977.

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Khanukaev, A.N., Dolgov, K.A. & Berezinskii, O.P. Changes in the relative costs of blasting in hard rocks due to an increase in the blast-hole charge diameter. Soviet Mining Science 13, 485–487 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02498462

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