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The paper describes the structural features of rockslides and draws a comparison between the energy efficiencies of fragmentation by a rockslide, breakage by blasting and destruction in a crusher. The authors have reproduced in the laboratory conditions the mechanism of heavy fragmentation of strong rocks under static loads typical of the real rockslides and with retained initial structure of the rock mass.
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Translated from Fiziko-Tekhnicheskie Problemy Razrabotki Poleznykh Iskopaemykh, No. 2, pp. 13–20, March–April, 2008.
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Dubovskoi, A.N., Pernik, L.M. & Strom, A.L. Experimental simulation of rockslide fragmentation. J Min Sci 44, 123–130 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10913-008-0025-y
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