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A method is proposed for bench blasting in open pit mines that can automatically determine the blastholes positions, calculate the explosive charge mass, and identifies the initiation sequence in the case of the hole-by-hole initiation. An analytical solution of the blasthole and row spacing is first deduced based on the concept of the explosive charge maximization. Then for a specified blast area,...