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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2021
Applicant:
Detnet South Africa (Pty) Ltd, Johannesburg, ZA;
Inventors:
Craig Schlenter, Johannesburg, ZA;
Marinus Yates, Benoni, ZA;
Assignee:
DETNET SOUTH AFRICA (PTY) LTD, Johannesburg, ZA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 19/51 (2009.12); F42D 1/055 (2005.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 19/51 (2012.12); F42D 1/055 (2012.12);
Abstract
In a blasting system a method of determining which borehole in a plurality of boreholes at a blast site is closest to a tagger, wherein latitude and longitude coordinate values for each borehole are determined and by using subsets of the longitude coordinates and latitude coordinates, and by performing a haversine calculation the position of the borehole which is closest to the tagger is determined.