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Blaster's Training Modules Module 4 Blasthole Drilling
efficiency. If a quarry plans to use 30foot bench heights with 7 feet of subdrill, a drill rig with 25footlong steels may not be a good choice, because two steels will be required to complete one hole. Metal mines generally use 50foot bench heights, for which steels of 30foot length make sense.