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  • ISEE
    Occidental's New Explosive Technology in Oil Shale

    By Thomas E. Ricketts

    Occidental Oil Shale Inc. has spent the last eight years at its Logan Wash. mine near DeBeque, Colorado, developing its modified in-situ oil shale process for obtaining oil from oil shale. Modified in

    Jan 1, 1981

  • ISEE
    "Optimized Energy Distribution in Bench Blasting Through Measurement Techniquesand “Multi Energy” Explosives"

    By Pierre De Pasquale, Gilles Jauffret, Ricardo Chavez

    "When blasting in quarries or mines, the main source of inconsistent results is directly related to thenon-homogeneous energy distribution through the rock-mass volume. This variation has differentori

    Jan 1, 2016

  • ISEE
    Blasting 1.5 T of Dynamite, Hang up on a Cliff, 125 m Above a Hydroelectric Power Plant

    By Thierry Bernard, Philippe Dozohne

    May 13th, in the back country of Nice @arice) collapsed a complete piece of mountain, cutting the RN 2085 and destroying a part of Valabfre’s viaduct. The fist inspections of the site showed that mate

    Jan 1, 2001

  • ISEE
    SmokeFCM: Segmentation of Quarry Blast Smoke Plumes using Self-Adaptive Weighted Fuzzy C-Means

    By E. Lentilucci, A. Dey, X. Liu, A. Datta, S. Ghosh

    The segmentation of quarry blast smoke plumes is a crucial research area that has the potential to enhance safety, environmental monitoring, object detection, and regulatory compliance in the mining i

    Jan 1, 2024

  • ISEE
    Optimizing Drill and Blast Parameters for Enhanced Fragmentation and Cost Efficiency in Open Pit Mines.

    By Shadrack Nuamah, Erik Westman, Bright Afum, Jesse Addy

    Rock fragmentation is the most critical aspect of hard rock production blasting due to its significant impact on drilling and blasting costs and the economics of subsequent loading, hauling, and crush

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Productivity Increases Through Pattern Expansion With Ultra-High

    By Miguel Humpire Huamani, Gustavo Huerta Valer, Jorge C. Cárdenas Miranda

    As part of the continuous improvement and increase productivity to achieve the mining and extraction plan of a low-grade open pit copper operation, alternatives are required to expand the blast patter

    Feb 6, 2023

  • ISEE
    Improvements to Blast Performance by Use of a Low-Density Emulsion at Barrick Goldstrike's Meikle Mine

    By Tony Francelj, D. Scott Scovira, Remi Proulx

    The Meikle Mine is a high-grade, underground gold mine that utilizes a primary and secondary stoping method with delayed backfill. The newly developed Rodeo Mine will start production using similar mi

    Jan 1, 2002

  • ISEE
    Estimation of Critical Distances to Avoid Failures in Detonators by Dynamic Pressure.

    By Lizbeth A. Escobar, Phol M. Llanos, Maritza Y. Avila

    The present research develops the estimation of critical parameters such as the distances and times between holes to avoid failure due to dynamic pressure in electronic detonators based on the near-fi

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Response Of Typical Wall Panels To Debris And Fragment Impact

    By John Tatom, Michelle Crull, Robert Conway

    The US Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board is sponsoring the development of a risk-based explosives safety siting program, SAFER. The fragment and debris hazard generated at the potential ex

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    GEM (Geologic Element Motion) Blast Heave Modeling with More Element Shapes and Energy Partitioning

    By Stewart A. Silling, C. Mick Lownds, Dale S. Preece, Ali Bhuiyan

    GEM (Geologic Element Motion) is a Distinct Element Method (DEM) for modeling blast-induced heave. It was developed with a very fast computational algorithm that efficiently treats many different elem

    Feb 6, 2023

  • ISEE
    Implementation of a Real Time Traceability System from Mine to Plant

    By R. Ticona, J. Alarcon

    In the continuous search to provide comprehensive solutions and identify opportunities to improve ore traceability, from the blastholes to mill feed, different ore traceability systems have been devel

    Jan 1, 2024

  • ISEE
    Maximizing Mining Recovery Through Advanced Blasting Techniques and Blast Movement Management

    By Aris Tambunan, Nella Lubis, Nurafrianti Saala, Komang Widhiayanto, Herry Saputra, Rudolf Sitorus

    Maximizing mining recovery rates and minimizing ore loss are pivotal objectives for economic efficiency and operational effectiveness. This study explores methods to address these imperatives by enhan

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Conversion from Two-Pass Overburden Removal to Cast Blasting at Simplot Phosphates

    By Dale Preece, Steven Case, Cassidy McAllister

    Simplot Phosphates produces high quality phosphate fertilizer through open pit mining. The operation near Vernal, UT began as a three-pass mining process carried out with drill and blast followed by t

    Jan 1, 2012

  • ISEE
    Difficulties and Suggestions when Drilling and Blasting in a Karst Environment

    By James T. Ludwiczak

    Drilling and blasting in a Karst (sinkholes and mud seams) environment has long been a problem for blasters, miners, quarry operators, contractors, and developers. While one cannot change the geologic

    Jan 1, 2005

  • ISEE
    Make a Good Impression

    By Sandra Penttinen

    There are several ways to get a positive reaction from abutters to blasting projects. When you need to enter structures to conduct a blast-blast inspection, the impression you make on the structure ow

    Jan 1, 2005

  • ISEE
    Drilling Cost Optimization by Using a Water-Powered Drilling Technique at an Underground Sublevel Stoping Operation

    By Alexandra Yuyali

    The objective of this research work is to increase the drilling ratio represented in tons per drilled meter (ton/m) to reduce mining costs. One of the key characteristics of this research is the use o

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Fragmentation Mill Throughput Improvement Through a Dual-Salt Sodium Nitrate Emulsion Product

    By Khushaal Popli, Vanessa Roeland, Brian Hall, Carl Diederichs

    Highland Valley Copper (HVC) has embraced an integrated Mine to Mill approach to comminution since the late 1990s. Previous blasting optimization was carried out through adjustments to blast pattern g

    Feb 6, 2023

  • ISEE
    Use of Electronic Initiation System in Urban Shaft Sinking Project

    By Richard Turnbull, James Purssey

    "The Northconnex Project is a twin nine kilometre tunnel in Sydney, Australia, linking the M1 PacificMotorway at Wahroonga to the Hills M2 Motorway at West Pennant Hills. Access to the tunnels will be

    Jan 1, 2017

  • ISEE
    Journal: Vibration Control Through Better Predictions

    By Keith Best

    It has been said that when a person does something right no one remembers but when they do something wrong no one forgets. This statement, when applied to the explosives industry, has never been truer

    Jan 1, 2008

  • ISEE
    Review and Learnings from a Surface Quarry Rockfall Incident

    By Andrew Moore

    It has long been common practice to conduct drilling and blasting operations at surface quarries in the Midwest in close proximity to near-vertical highwalls. The main reasons for such an approach, an

    Feb 6, 2023