Innovative education in blasting is, at once, the starting point and the catalyst for all three dimensions. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors are grateful to the Graduate Programme in Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (PPGE3M) of UFRGS, to the Mineral Research and Mining Planning Laboratory (LPM/DEMIN), and to the Department of Mining Engineering (DEMIN/UFRGS) for the institutional, scientific and logistical support indispensable to carrying out this research. Special acknowledgement is due to CAPES for its support of graduate training and scientific research in Brazil; to the JKMRC (Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre, University of Queensland, Australia), long-standing partner of LPM/UFRGS and a world reference in Mine-to-Mill research; and to the Coalition for EcoEfficient Comminution (CEEC) for its fundamental scientific contribution to quantifying energy consumption in mineral comminution.
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