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  • ISEE
    A Proposed Test Program To Improve Explosive Risk Management

    By Lon Santis, Michael Swisdak, David Leidel, John Tatom

    The Institute of Makers of Explosives (IME) and A-P-T Research, Inc (APT) have developed and released a quantitative risk management tool, IMESAFR (IME Safety Analysis For Risk), for the commercial ex

    Jan 1, 2012

  • ISEE
    Analysis of Air Blast Overpressures within a Negative Pressure Boundary

    By Frederick B. Kuhnow

    Harmonic energetic delamination of T2 building is being considered for demolition at a formerly known atomic lab. The T2 building is within a containment structure that is under a negative pressure of

    Jan 1, 2017

  • ISEE
    The Blasting Log - An Essential Witness of Professional Blasting

    By S. J. Dillingham

    As we enter the new century and close out the old, it has become standard procedure for most blasters to complete a blasting log or shot report following a blast. However, how can you be sure these co

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Underground Remote Firing System

    By Tom Paynter

    In an underground mining environment, the primary method of firing a blast is using a combination of an electric detonator and a detonating cord to initiate the Nonelectric detonators. This method has

    Jan 1, 2017

  • ISEE
    Journal: 21st Annual Photo Contest - Best of Show "Pinkerton Tunnel Open Cut Project"

    By Michael Weaver, Dale L. Ramsey

    The Pinkerton Tunnel open cut project is part of the National Gateway Clearance Initiative improvement project to achieve a minimum of 21 feet of vertical clearance along CSX Transportation rail corri

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    Epic Blast of 275 US Ton (250 tonnes) Sets Benchmark in Opencast Mining Arena in Environmental Sensitive Area With Desired Fragmentation and Muck Profile.

    By Tapas Kumar Mukherjee, Sujit Kumar, Sanjay Kumar Singh

    This paper dwells on the epic blast conducted at Tata Steel’s captive coal mine in India and the insights drawn from it. Optimal blast design parameters had to be ascertained for operating benches (6.

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    Paper or Electronic Records – Ways to Improve Blast Documentation and Recordkeeping

    By Travis A. Davidson, Ralph E. Burnham, Cathy Aimone-Martin, J. Kelly Ratliff

    Blasters face a long list of tasks to execute daily—from vehicle inspections to blast design and layout, hole loading and tie-in, securing the site, and finally, safely executing the blast. Good pract

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Single Shot Drawbell Blasting with Electronic Detonators at Freeport

    By Bonifacio Degay, Mike Lovitt

    PT Freeport Indonesia is a block cave mine that now utilizes an advanced undercut method to set up the min in the Deep Ore Zone (DOZ). In this method a slice of rock (undercut) is broken such that it

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    Comparison of Ground Vibrations vs. Frequencies to Strain Rates from Blasting Operations at the Tennessee Capitol Corridor in Nashville, TN

    By Gabe McClain, Thomas Pallua, Joe Schrank, William C. Gates

    Because of restrictions on blasting in urban areas and, more importantly, the proximity of this construction to national historic landmarks, blasting operations were extensively monitored to measure a

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Use of a Scaled Concrete Model to Determine the Origins of Air Overpressure

    By N. Skopak, W. Birch, A. Douglas, C. Johnson

    Determining the origins of air overpressure has been a long-debated topic within the explosives engineering community. Historically, it has been accepted that the initial face movement gave rise to ai

    Jan 1, 2024

  • ISEE
    Harmonic Delamination of Nuclear Structures

    By Frederick B. Kuhnow

    Harmonic energetic delamination a building is being considered for demolition at a formerly known atomic power lab. The building is within a containment structure under a negative pressure, so that no

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    An Examination of Blasting Accidents in Tennessee 1999-2003

    By Bill Loviza, Jimmy Sanders

    This report is not everything we would like it to be. Access to information concerning unresolved legal actions is a sensitive matter. Obtaining the information presented in this report was a challeng

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    Effect of Geology and Mechanical Properties of Rock on Blast Results

    By Ph. D. Favreau, Favreau Patrice B. Eng, R. F.

    Geology is important in mining by helping to identify the rocks which contain sufficient valuable ore to justify their excavation. Geologists give a geological name to each rock type, so geology is a

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    Fragmentation Techniques to Produce Armor Stone Blocks for Marine Structure

    By Y Nagendra, A. Ravi Kumar

    A breakwater is a construction for protecting the marine structures like port, harbor, or anchorage-basin and berthed marine vessels from the destructive influence of the sea waves. The breakwater is

    Jan 1, 2005

  • ISEE
    Instruments and Available Internet-Based Data for Documenting Weather Conditions

    By Donna Kliche, Charles Kliche

    It has been previously documented that various weather conditions such as wind direction and speed, cloud cover and, especially, temperature inversions can significantly affect the overpressure genera

    Jan 1, 2011

  • ISEE
    Blasting in a Cement Kiln

    By Ray Patterson

    A planned modification to a cement kiln at the Holnam Portland Cement Plant near Florence, Colorado required the removal of a ring of cast-in-place (CIP) refractory lining. The CIP lining was approxim

    Jan 1, 1999

  • ISEE
    Cost - Benefit Analysis of Using Electronic Detonators in a Large Carboniferous Limestone Quarry in the North of England

    By Bill Birch, Toby White, Ian Brown

    costs/benefits of electronic detonators and measure their effects on primary crusher productivity. 9 blasts (3 shock tube blasts, 6 electronic blasts). Measured electricity consumption & primary crus

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Transforming Underground Blasting Operations into Primary Crushing Operations

    By Christopher Jon Preston, Troy Williams, Daniel Roy

    There has been significant progress made with narrow vein gold mines in which a second option for crushing has begun to attract attention. To ensure the profitability of a mine that has based its econ

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    Case Studies Using the Multiple Blasthole Fragmentation (MBF) Model at Open Pit Mines in Canada

    By Scott King, Norm Patterson, Ruilin Yang

    The multiple blasthole fragmentation (MBF) model developed by Orica models the contributions from multiple blastholes to fragmentation at any given point in the rock and simulates a production blast w

    Jan 1, 2018

  • ISEE
    Violence Factor – The New Tool for Blast Performance Analysis

    By Dr. Calvin J. Konya, Anthony Konya

    Blast violence has always been a criteria that has been analyzed without a quantitative approach relying on opinions of those viewing the blast and oftentimes does not transfer between open-pit mines,

    Feb 1, 2020