The government of Canada has announced a C$1.5-million investment in a project that will test and validate a better, more efficient approach to fragmenting underground rock deposits, improving mining and tunnelling practices, while reducing blast-induced fumes from traditional explosives.
McGill University Department of Mining and Materials Engineering Professor Hani Mitri explained that the goal of the project was to create, test and validate a new method for rock fragmentation for underground mining and tunneling projects.