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Safe Operating Procedure:

Design of Blasting Patterns on a Sloped Terrain
29 June 2018

Objective
This Safe Operating Procedure (SOP) describes the required steps taken by the Mine Engineering group to
design and implement blasting patterns on sloped terrain greater than 10°. This SOP applies to Atlas
Copco D65 drill rigs.

Procedure
The following steps reflect the activities’ sequence taken by the Mine Engineering group when designing
blasting patterns on sloped terrain greater than 10°:

Activity 1

Identify the mining areas that have a sloped terrain greater than 10° as shown in Figure 1 by coloring the
ultimate pit ground surface with dip inclination.

Figure 1 – 2017 Mamb ultimate ground surface colored by ground inclination in degrees. Area in green is less than or equal to 10°; area in red is
greater than 10°. Phase numbers are shown in white circles.

To color the ultimate pit ground surface:

 In the MineSight’s data manager and under the Items folder create a new Cutoff Item

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 Name the Cutoff Item as ‘DIP’

 Select the cutoff type as ‘Numeric’ and click OK

 Once the Cutoff Item has been created, double click on the ‘DIP’Cutoff Item to display its properties
and color it like so:

 On MineSight 3D, under the Surfaces tool, select Color By Dip

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 Select the ground surface to color with the Dip Cutoff Item and click OK

Activity 2

For sloped terrain that has an inclination greater than 10°, the Mine Engineering group will not design a
blasting pattern that would put the drill rig on such inclined surface.

In order to design a blasting pattern on an area greater than 10°, the Mine Engineering group must
coordinate with the Mine Support group to visit the area in question and estimate the required earth works
to shallow the terrain.

Once the area in question has been excavated, leveled and bermed (area where drill rig be working from)
by the Mine Support group, the Mine Engineering group will request a survey of the inside-berm-toe
perimeter, then, this perimeter will be checked in MineSight by Mine Engineering group for ground
inclination compliance.

Activity 3

Once the inside-berm-toe perimeter has been confirmed to have an inclination less than 10°, the Mine
Engineering group will design the blasting pattern inside of this perimeter.

When the blast pattern design is completed, the Mine Engineering group will request to the Mine Survey
group to layout the design’s drill hole collar locations.

It is the Mine Survey responsibility to communicate with the Mine Engineering group if a drill hole collar
location is outside the perimeter used by Mine Engineering or is outside a berm. Not communicating this to
Mine Engineering, might lead a drill rig to tram to a drill hole collar that could be in a surface segment that
changed after the initial survey and be greater than 10°.

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Design of Blasting Pattern Design Work Flow

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