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The exploitation of copper ore deposits in Polish underground mines is performed primarily by the use of blasting technology which seems to be relatively well suited to the hardness of the local rocks and to local mining and geological conditions. Blasting works are also recognized as an active method of seismic events prevention, conducted as group strain-release blasting within potentially instable main roof strata and in pillars. A notable number of recorded dynamic events can be clearly explained by the blasti...