Blast the skip tower of Lazy Mine | Video: Diary/Vladimir Pryček
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The blasting of the bolstered concrete colossus, towering over the panorama of Orlové, was carried out by the employees of the state enterprise DIAMO. The 83-meter-high skip mining tower of Dolu Lazy despatched roughly 80 kg of explosives to the bottom, which had been divided right into a thousand expenses.
A thousand expenses in a harmful reduce
“The fees will likely be within the so-called harmful reduce, we used precisely one thousand and sixty of them. It isn’t that large for the burden of the explosives as a result of the fees themselves are small. Nevertheless, it was essential to retailer plenty of detonators,” stated gunner Jan Výmola earlier than the demolition.
Electronically programmed detonators
For the demolition of the tower, pyrotechnicians used electronically programmable detonators for the primary time within the Czech Republic. In accordance with them, this technique is safer than utilizing traditional electrical detonators.
shut data Supply: Deník/Vladimír Pryček zoom_in Blasting of the skip tower of Dolu Lazy, July 27, 2024, Orlová.
“The digital detonator is managed by a chip contained in the detonator. This ensures delay accuracy in addition to most security. The detonator can’t be detonated by any machine apart from ours. The benefit of this technique is that earlier than firing, due to the chips, we all know that every detonator is working. The system checks every detonator individually and offers us suggestions that every little thing is working because it ought to,” provides Maciej Kosowski from Austin Detonator.
Ten seconds
The dominant determine of the Orlov space was supposed to return down at precisely ten o’clock. The firing was barely delayed, however its outcome was precisely because the gunners had deliberate. “Sure, every little thing went in accordance with plan. The tower fell into the pre-prepared house precisely because it was imagined to,” famous DIAMO press spokesman Tomáš Indrei.
shut data Supply: Deník/Vladimír Pryček zoom_in Blasting of the skip tower of Dolu Lazy, July 27, 2024, Orlová.
The autumn of the tower took precisely ten seconds. Every thing was subsequently lined by a black cloud of smoke and dirt. Dozens of viewers felt it firsthand. A few of them foresaw what was going to occur and got here to the world that had been designated for them by the police, already geared up with respirators.
What’s going to occur to the stays of the tower?
After the demolition of the skip tower, employees enter the premises and kind the fabric into recyclable scrap or concrete, or recycled brick. The state-owned enterprise DIAMO will proceed the rehabilitation and revitalization of your entire space in subsequent levels, particularly by demolishing different buildings and constructing hole roofs over the pits. In accordance with the plans, the rehabilitation and reclamation of Dolu Lazy ought to finish on the finish of 2026.
Picture gallery: Orlová, Lazy Mine, mining tower, after blasting 27/07/2024
“Primarily, there must be a meadow right here with three concreted roofs within the place of the previous pits, ready as a brownfield for any occasion,” Ludvík Kašpar, director of the state enterprise DIAMO, added to the plans.
At the moment, the previous Lazy Mine
The blasting of the skip mining tower is the following step within the liquidation of the previous Lazy Mine, which has not been mined for practically 5 years. The liquidation of the pits itself started in 2021. All three pits have already been crammed to floor stage. Whereas two had been backfilled with tailings, pit quantity 5 needed to be concreted in accordance with the undertaking as a future gasoline pit, which took a couple of 12 months and a half.
shut data Supply: Deník/Vladimír Pryček zoom_in Blasting of the skip tower of Dolu Lazy, July 27, 2024, Orlová.
“Through the 130 years of Dolu Lazy’s existence, 146 million tons of high-quality arduous coal had been mined right here. Mining right here ended 5 years in the past, and since then a 3rd of the buildings have disappeared from the world of the previous mine. Extra will observe. In the long run, solely the metal trestle mining tower of pit No. 2 will stay within the space. The representatives of the Memorial Institute requested its preservation,” says Jiří Golasowski, deputy from the spin-off plant DARKOV.
The liquidation of mines is financially very demanding. The price of remediation at Dole Lazy within the final two years was round 135 million crowns per 12 months. This 12 months, they need to drop to round 77 million.
