Blasting Technology for Underground Hard Rock Mining (PDF)

Technical Services Manager in Orica Mining Services, Australia, and headed the technical services function of Indian Business during 2005 to 2009. He worked as Chair Professor (Uranium) sponsored by Department of Atomic Energy, GoI. His areas of specialization include opencast and underground mining technology, drilling and blasting technology, rock excavation engineering, tunnelling, geomechanics, ground control, and strata management. Prof Mishra has to his credit, 193 research publications in peer-reviewed reputed journals, international/national conferences, and symposia. He is actively involved in solving real-life problems of mining and allied industry by undertaking R&D and industry sponsored projects in mining and allied areas and has completed more than 139 such projects. He has guided 10 Ph.D. dissertations, while another 15 are ongoing. He has completed 29 Management and Executive Development Programs for various mining, IT, and other allied industries. He has been awarded with the prestigious National Geoscience Award from the Ministry of Mines, GoI by Hon. President of India in 2016. He is also Recipient the Abheraj Baldota Memorial Gold Medal Award-2012 (Young Mining Engineer of the year 2012) from Mining Engineer's Association of India.

Dr. Murari Prasad Roy is Senior Principal Scientist at CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad. He has made notable contributions in blasting science and technology to solve practical problems in the mining industry encompassing the fields of blast vibration and associated correlation with structural damage, wall control, rock fragmentation, blast design in mines and tunnels, cast blast designs in coal mining operations, and controlled blasting in civil construction projects. He has worked as Project Leader in two Mega S & T Project titled "Characterization of rock and explosive parameters for optimal explosive energy utilization in opencast blasting" and "Blast Design and Fragmentation Control-Key to Productivity" and significantly contributed in another five (5) R&D Projects of Ministry of Coal, Govt. of India, in different area of rock blasting. He has published more than 90 scientific papers in international and national journals and conferences. He has received CSIR Technology Awards 2019.

Dr. PK Singh is Former Director of CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research, Dhanbad. He is a Doctorate in Engineering from Institute of Mining Engineering, Technical University, Clausthal, Germany. His areas of research interest include rock mechanics, mining methods, rock excavation engineering, coal characterization, and clean coal technologies. He has published more than 200 papers in scientific journals and proceedings of seminars. He has also authored and edited 13 books. He has been Project Leader and Advisor in about 20 S&T projects sponsored by Government of India. Dr. Singh received different prestigious awards including National Mineral Award, Raman Research Fellowship, German Academic (DAAD) Fellowship, CSIR Technology award, etc. He is Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc), Bengaluru, and National Academy of Sciences (FNASc), Allahabad