Method for loading explosive charges into blastholes formed in a subterranean formation
US4513665A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 6, 1983 |
| Grant date | Apr 30, 1985 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 6, 2003 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
- CPC primaryF42D1/10
- WIPO fieldOther special machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A method for loading explosive charges into blastholes in a subterranean formation for forming a fragmented permeable mass of formation particles in an underground cavity in the formation is provided. Upper and lower voids spaced apart vertically from each other by unfragmented formation are excavated into the subterranean formation. A generally vertical blasthole is formed in the unfragmented formation between the voids. Upper and lower explosive charges, separated from one another by stemming, are formed in the blasthole. Each such explosive charge includes at least one primer operationally connected to an explosive initiating lead that extends from the charge. The explosive initiating lead of the upper explosive charge extends from the top of the blasthole into the upper void and the explosive initiating lead of the lower explosive charge extends from the bottom of the blasthole into the lower void. The upper and lower explosive charges are detonated for explosively expanding unfragmented formation toward the voids to thereby form the fragmented permeable mass of formation particles in the underground cavity.
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