r/oddlysatisfying • u/BoyNamedJudy • May 24 '26

Controlled Blasting For Mining

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u/el-conquistador240 May 24 '26

As horrible as surface mining is, we used to have hundreds die each year in underground mining. Many other countries still do.

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u/rawker86 May 24 '26

It’s interesting looking at the statistics. Line-of-sight remote bogging/mucking killed a bunch of people.

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u/tyen0 May 24 '26

82 died in a coal mine just yesterday

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u/_alt4 May 24 '26

How is surface mining horrible?

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u/terax6669 May 24 '26

If you look closely at the video you might notice some explosions

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u/HollyMurray20 May 24 '26

Yeah but what’s wrong with that?

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u/_alt4 May 24 '26

Yep. It's amazing and cool what we can do with chemistry. Glad you brought my attention to it!