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The study of the effect of blasting on bench stability is indispensable for the overall mine-s safety, in this perspective, we conducted a study in the limestone quarry, which is characterized by a highly fractured rock mass. While the quarry presents a steep topographic profile, the extraction is carried out on a single operating edge. The blasting operations in the quarry offer an unsatisfying fragmentation (high percentage of oversized boulders), important overbreak, and deformation to the bench-s face; these i...