The summary of the analysis of explosive consumption,
shown in Table 5, indicates that the unit
consumption of Explus is between 0.150 g/t and
0.183 g/t while that of Nitram 9 ranges between 0.190
g/t and 0.240 g/t. Fig. 2 which shows the graphical
representation of unit consumption of explosives as a
function of the number of blasts reveals that Explus is
more economical for the same amount of tonnage of
blasted material with almost the same consumption of
ANFO, as shown in Fig. 3.