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ARCHIVES OF MINING SCIENCES, vol.59, no.2, pp.477-488, 2014 (SCI-Expanded)
It is very important to know the degree of disintegration beforehand in open quarry bench blasting in terms of blasting efficiency. Kuznetsov (1973), Cunningham (1987), and Ouchterlony (2005) have developed the Rosin-Rammler distribution function for estimating the degrees of fragmentation (Rosin & Rammler, 1933). However, models they developed do not give realistic results for blast surfaces where there are a lot of discontinuity characteristics with broken and fissured areas due to the difference in structural characteristics of the rocks. In this study, average fragmentative distribution of the heap formed as a result of several blasting tests in a quarry belonging to BATICIM have been separately determined by using a dimensional analysis program with Wipfrag image processing technique and Kuz-Ram estimation model. Average granular size correction has been carried out with the approach of accepting as fine-grain the areas that couldn't be determined by means of image analysis programs and that were neglected in the analysis. Subsequently, the land coefficient in Kuz-Ram model was determined to be 0.0383 rather than 0.06 for the said quarry by taking the average dimension values determined by Wipfrag method as reference point.