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Camborne Research Mine - Shockwave Measurement


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Myself and Charlie got invited to the Camborne School's of Mining research mine to do a test shot of the rock face. We had been playing around with a novel way of detecting explosive shock waves as they pass through the rock, now it was time to put it to the test.

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Passage in mineGold digging mock upTest drill holesSetting up the instrumentsLoading the roundChecking the roundAfter the blast