Technical Approach to Prediction of Dragline Productiveness in Blasted Rock Handling at Open Pit Mines in Permafrost Zone

The authors describe a technical approach to validating efficient regimes and process flow charts for draglines in open pit mining in permafrost zone; the approach integrates modeling data on temperature conditions of permafrost treated by blasting, geometrical parameters of a dragline face and interaction of work cycle time and face rock temperature in different seasons. It is shown that a dragline has the appreciably reduced productivity in slice-by-slice handling of broken-rock disintegration having negative temperature.