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  • ISEE
    Choosing the Correct Bulk Loading Equipment Can Help Optimize Your Blasting Program

    By R Tom Watts

    The blasting industry has changed more in the last five years than in any period to date. The equipment utilized to load boreholes has changed in response to more precise blasting products and program

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Blasting Problems Facing the USA Quarry Industry

    By Victor C. Bryan

    "One of the more challenging issues facing operators of U.S. mines and quarries is blasting in an environmentally acceptable way. It is quite important that industry management understand and apply gu

    Jan 1, 1995

  • ISEE
    Novel Emulsion Explosives Technology and Application

    By Dale Ramsey

    Emulsion explosives have become the product of choice for many blasting applications and are not limited to just extreme wet hole conditions or special application environments as in the past. Today’s

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Partnering in Blasthole Drilling

    By Ron Lutz

    In today’s world, production is the name of the game. We are all in business to make money. In the Quarrying and Mining industry the same holds true. The primary goal is to develop the best drilling a

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Underwater Explosions Part 1. Estimation of the Test Method for the Determination of Energy Content of Explosives

    The underwater explosions have been used for several decades for the determination of energy content of explosives. This test method is the only one by which shock, fly rock and total energy can be me

    Jan 1, 2005

  • ISEE
    Public Perception of Blasting at Rock Quarries in Expanding Urban Environments - St. Charles County, MO

    By Paul Worsey, Braden Lusk

    Differences exist between public perception of construction blasting and quarry blasting. In general, people are able to tolerate short term inconveniences much better than long term ones. The paper f

    Jan 1, 2005

  • ISEE
    Investigation of Firing Patterns on Sandstone Benches of a Surface Coal Mine - A Case Study

    By Piyush Rai

    Proper use of fi ring pattern vis-à-vis the blast requirements can provide optimal blast performance in terms of fragmentation. Further to this, each fi ring pattern has its own characteristic, for in

    Jan 1, 2008

  • ISEE
    Journal: Safety Talk / Standard Operating Procedures

    By Wm. Reisz

    There is no universal standard for Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s). Every blasting operation has its own unique circumstances, its own methodologies and its own unique demands. It would be nearl

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    Journal: Safety Talk / The Safety of Electronic Initiation Systems

    By Wm. Reisz, Raphael Trousselle

    We are now well into our second decade of commercially available electronic initiation systems. Over this time, the technological advances have made electronic systems a very practical option for a wi

    Jan 1, 2011

  • ISEE
    Journal: Blastserve A Discussion Forum for ISEE Members - Vibration Criteria for Blasting Near Fish in Pools

    Dear All, I am looking for information about vibrations and effects on fish in pools. A tunnel blast is planned to be carried out as close as 300 meters to a freshwater fish growing plant. What is th

    Jan 1, 2012

  • ISEE
    Journal: Blastserve A Discussion Forum for ISEE Members

    Drilling through unconsolidated material I need to drill blastholes through a mix of consolidated and unconsolidated material. This material is hung up in an underground ore pass. The total length of

    Jan 1, 2011

  • ISEE
    Half-Way House - Controlled Demolition Group "Rocks the Casbah" with Tricky Special-Effects-Laden Blast

    By Jane Wright, Brent Blanchard

    Question: When it comes to demolition projects, what could be more demanding than asking a blaster to explosively demolish a stubby, heavily-reinforced concrete structure in the heart of a third-world

    Jan 1, 2002

  • ISEE
    Journal: Blastserve, Look for the New Online Blasters Forum!

    Blastserve, ISEE’s Listserve is being replaced by our new Blasters Forum-online, an exclusive member benefit. Our goal is to provide an ISEE forum for you to network with your peers and exchange techn

    Jan 1, 2013

  • ISEE
    Tunneling in a Sensitive Environment

    By Scott Stephenson

    Making a tunnel through solid rock can sometimes be a dangerous task. Many things must be considered in order to complete such a task safely, and efficiently. Prior to starting things must be known su

    Jan 1, 2009

  • ISEE
    2000 Blasting in the New Millennium - The Blasting Log An Essential Witness of Professional Blasting Part 1

    By Steve Dillingham

    The origin of the written blasting log or shot report can likely be traced back to the earliest annals of blasting and record keeping. These records were, for the most part, a way of checking inventor

    Jan 1, 2002

  • ISEE
    Journal: History of ISEE – Timeline / 35 Years

    1974 The Society of Explosives Engineers officially formed to “advance the art and science of explosives engineering” on August 20, 1974 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    Journal: From the Executive Director / The Explosives Industry and the New Economy / ISEE’s 35th Anniversary marks economic challenges

    By Jeff Dean

    As the Society celebrates its 35th year as an explosives industry association, it is clear that we are part of an industry that covers many sectors of economic activity. We are the voice of those who

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    Blasting soft, plastic mineral inside a silo at a copper mine

    By Benjamin Cebrian

    Metallurgical testing at Cobre Las Cruces prior to production at the mill was done with overburden gossan. Some of that test gossan was a very fine material, wet by the water conditions at the bottom

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    Track and Trace (T&T) of Regulated Material

    By Paulo Cesar Pavan

    T&T or Traceability, is a concept of generating, storing and on demand providing information about all traceable items in the supply chain

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    Journal: 100 Years / New Farms for Old

    By Robert Hopler

    True there is a certain proportion of nitro-glycerin in dynamite cartridges, but the dangerous explosive is scientifically compounded with wood pulp and some other ingredients in such a way that it ca

    Jan 1, 2012