The Shatter Cut at the McIntyre-Porcupine Mine
A. W. JACOB; T. E. NEWKIRK
THE shatter cut, or burn cut as it is often called, is one in which the centre of the round is almost reamed out by drilling holes so close together that the blasting of a few holes shatters the rock embraced by all of them.
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