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  • ISEE
    Field Monitoring of Loading Properties for Gassed Bulk Emulson

    By Yang Ruilin

    Bulk gassing technology is a growing trend in the commercial explosive industry. The gassed bulk products produced differ from microballooned bulk products or cartridged products. It is easy to know t

    Jan 1, 1999

  • ISEE
    Ammonium Nitrate Blasting Agents Quality Testing for Maximum Benefit

    By Philip H. Porter

    Ammonium nitrate blasting agents continue to be the work-horse of the explosives industry. The versatile, low-cost, anfo products, whether packaged, poured, or bulk, continue to produce superior resul

    Jan 1, 1984

  • ISEE
    New Development of Gassed Emulsion Explosive for Cost Optimization and Environmental Control

    By Yessica Idrogo, Omar Gómez, Francisco Pérez, Eduardo Yrigoyen

    Rock blasting is one of the most important operations in the mining cycle value chain, requiring optimized explosives mixtures to get good results. A new and better strategy, and that which is discuss

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    Preparing for Blast Damage Litigation Through Accurate Record Documentation

    By Keith Pucalik

    One of the more important duties of the vibration consultant is to evaluate allegations of blasting damage by neighboring property owners. Unfortunately, the consultant is generally faced with having

    Jan 1, 1990

  • ISEE
    Potential Limits for Regulation of Environmental Effects of Blasting

    By Gerald R. Coonan

    Early in the open session of the 1979 SEE Fifth Conference panel discussion, someone asked a question of the panel concerning the future intent of the Office of Surface Mining and the regulatory limit

    Jan 1, 1979

  • ISEE
    Blasting with a Light Touch; Florida State Project 12014-3501 Fort Myers, Florida (307cb8ee-5b0c-48e5-806c-57d316a0ab82)

    By Doug Wathen, Philip M. E Thomas

    The City of Fort Myers needed to replace a 40-year old 42-inch storm sewer line in downtown Fort Myers with a new 54-inch line to accommodate population growth. The old line had to be kept operational

    Jan 1, 1996

  • ISEE
    Survival Guide For The Blaster in the 1990's

    By John W. Brown

    During the summer of 1994 the mining industry experienced numerous accidents involving blasting related incidents. The Tri-State Chapter of Explosives Engineers planned a meeting to discuss three of t

    Jan 1, 1995

  • ISEE
    Stemming Technique for Loading Angled Holes Charged with ANFO

    By Michael David Wilkins, Paul N. Worsey

    Little research has been published on stemming blast holes, particularly what happens during the process. Previous work has concentrated on the performance of the inert material to find the best way t

    Jan 1, 1998

  • ISEE
    A Static Model for Rock Splitting Design With Explosive

    By R Mancini

    Explosive charge action on the medium is intrinsically dynamic (fast rising and fast vanishing). On the contrary, information available on rock strength is drawn from static behaviour, and it's common

    Jan 1, 1995

  • ISEE
    Considerations for Drill and Blast Excavation of a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Nuclear Waste at Yucca Mountain

    By Norman Kramer, Roger Keller

    The authors would like to thank Austin Powder Company for their technical support and input, specifically Stephen Harris, Jason Ryan, and John Capers of Austin Powder, without whose support this paper

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Predicting Vibration Through Linear-Regression Modelling

    By Anthony Konya, Calvin J. Konya

    The publication, RI8507, from the U.S. Bureau of Mines established an envelope equation that related scaled-distance to peak particle velocity in an attempt to predict ground vibration in the design p

    Jan 1, 2018

  • ISEE
    Selection and Use of Explosives for Blasting in Permafrost

    By Anatoliy Yegupov, Vladimir I. Samoylov, Alexandr V. Startshinov

    Access difficulties and unique climatic and geotechnical conditions of mineral deposits in permafrost in the Russian Northeast require specific approaches in the selection and use of explosives.

    Jan 1, 1992

  • ISEE
    Blast Assessment and Optimization for High Quarry Face - Blasting

    By Frank Sames

    Where applicable, high production benches can improve efficiency in quarrying. Quality control, geological, cost or other considerations might result in the development of quarry benches higher than 3

    Jan 1, 1996

  • ISEE
    Efficient Use of Explosives for Casing Advancement while Drilling

    By Vaughn Bowns, Allen Stanley, Brian Redeker

    "Running casing in drilling operations is often complicated by boulders or large cobbles.Past practices of dealing with these have included use of drop hammers, attempts to drillthrough or around the

    Jan 1, 1993

  • ISEE
    Drilling and Blasting Practices

    By Thomas P. Mahoney

    Phelps Dodge Corporation's Tyrone Mine is a large open pit copper operation located in the southwestern corner of New Mexico. The Tyrone concentrator processes approximately 50,000 tons per day of cop

    Jan 1, 1986

  • ISEE
    Technical Review of Safe Blasting Design at Limited Distance

    By Agus Setiabudi

    East Pit Wira II Project in South Kalimantan, Indonesia with a radius of <500 meters (1,640 ft) from residential has about 454,168 tonnes of coal reserves, with a total remaining reserves of 3,369,383

    Jan 1, 2014

  • ISEE
    Optimized Blasting Methods for TBM Launching Shaft Construction Beneath the Panama Canal: A Case Study

    By Jose Pineda, Abraham Lindo

    The Panama Metro System’s Network expansion involves excavating a launching shaft for a tunnel boring machine (TBM) to traverse beneath the Panama Canal. The blasting needed for this shaft constructio

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Analysis of Recent Mine Blasting Accidents

    By Larry R. Fletcher

    The Bureau of Mines obtained blasting accident data from the Mine Safety ant Health Administration (MSHA), U. S. Department of Labor. These data were analyzed to determine the most frequent causes of

    Jan 1, 1983

  • ISEE
    Dimension Stone Shooting with Low Strength High Explosives

    By Stephen P. Case, Stephen Castellucci, William Parsons

    In this paper, the authors present a step-by-step discussion of dimension stone production at a New England granite quarry. The quarry mines a rare pink granite which is used for facings and panels in

    Jan 1, 1990

  • ISEE
    Staggered Parallel Cut in Small Headings the Most Cost-Reducing Alternative to All Other Cuts in Mechanized Drifting

    By Max Pena Woolcott, Winfried Rosenstock, Maria Chappuis, Walther Hennig

    "In a Peruvian-German Technical Cooperation project for the Mining Sector the ""Milpo-cut"" along with the electric initiation system has been successfully implemented in a Peruvian metal-ore mine.Spe

    Jan 1, 1994