I UNDERGROUND BLASTING Mining and Blasting – Weblog .
Wedge cut Blasthole are drilled at an angle to the face in a uniform wedge formation so that the axis of symmetry is at the centre line of the face. The cut displaces a wedge of rock out of the face in the initial blast and this wedge is widened to the full width of the drift in subsequent blasts, each blast being fired with detonators of