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  • ISEE
    A Blaster’s Tool To Measure Fragmentation

    By Larry Mirabelli, David Lilly

    In 1777, the French naturalist, Georges Louis Leclerc, Compte de Buffon developed a statistical technique to estimate the width between two parallel lines by randomly throwing a needle at the two line

    Jan 1, 2008

  • ISEE
    Drill Monitoring and GPS Developments and their Impact on the Drill to Mill Process

    By John Vynne

    Too often, a mine’s operations, including drilling, blasting, loading, hauling, crushing, processing, etc., are considered independent steps, rather then a continuous process. In fact, these are inter

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Standard Digital Video Analysis and Engineering Field Controls

    By Tom Treleaven

    The success of any blast is dependent on the accuracy of the blast design and the field controls used on the shot. This point cannot be over emphasized because when the geometry is not measured and/or

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Immediate Internet distribution of vibration data from the historic Byward Market, Ottawa, Canada

    By Robert Lee, Jeff Corace, Rob Cyr

    Blasting in the heart of the historic Byward Market District of Canada’s capital, Ottawa, presents a unique set of challenges. The obvious difficulties arising on projects requiring blasting within 3

    Jan 1, 2006

  • ISEE
    Controlling high risk blasting in an urban environment The Airport Link Story

    By Rob Domotor

    This paper tells the story of using controlled surface and underground blasting methods to excavate hard rock in three areas on Australia’s largest road infrastructure project; the Airportlink Project

    Jan 1, 2012

  • ISEE
    Civil Tunnelling with Electronic Blasting Systems - Early Experience in Korea

    By Dave Kay, Young-Suk Song

    To meet the needs of South Korea's rapidly expanding economy, a large number of infrastructure projects are under way to improve transportation efficiency within the nation. These projects include hig

    Jan 1, 2005

  • ISEE
    The Evaluation of Explosives Performance: an End Users Point of View

    By N T. Moxon, L W. Armstrong

    Explosive manufacturers have for many years provided a service to the mining industry which has,until recently, been unchallenged by mine operators. Today mine operators are more aware of the properti

    Jan 1, 1991

  • ISEE
    Quality Control of Bulk Explosive Products to Minimize the Risk of Fumes

    By Alastair Torrance, Mitchell Nipperess, Andrew Olsson, Italo Onederra, Gary Cavanough

    Components of bulk explosive products include ammonium nitrate, water, fuel, stabilizers, and calcium nitrate. The physical attributes include prill/emulsion ratio, density, and viscosity and in the c

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    Portable, Multi-Channel and Continuous Velocity of Detonation Recorders

    By Jackson R. Pressley, Bruce Vandenberg

    An explosive’s velocity of detonation, (VOD), can be used to indicate a number of important characteristics regarding the product’s performance, under specific field and test conditions.

    Jan 1, 1997

  • ISEE
    Predicting Rotary Drill Performance

    By George P. Jr Schivley

    Looking at the process of drilling rock from the standpoint of the power required, yields an equation that relates Force-on-the-Bit; Torque, to rotate the bit; and bit Angular Speed to the Penetration

    Jan 1, 1994

  • ISEE
    Systems Integration of a Global Explosives Security System at a MultiNational Explosives Manufacturer Using Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) Based Technologies for Tracking and Monitoring Explosives and Detonators

    By Thomas Zukovich, Robert Morhard, Thomas Gelormino

    The ExploTrack Explosives Tracking System is a sophisticated integration platform designed to track explosive products in both fixed locations and mobile environments globally, in real-time, on a 24/7

    Jan 1, 2007

  • ISEE
    Recent Projects - Downtown Demolition Dykon “withdraws” 13-story Columbia Bank from Kansas City skyline

    By Jack Curran

    KANSAS CITY, MO - Performing one of the most impressive urban building-implosion projects in recent memory, Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Dykon Explosive Demolition Corp. and Omaha, Nebraska-based Anderson Ex

    Jan 1, 2003

  • ISEE
    Monitoring and Prediction of Blast Vibrations : A Case Study

    By D Vidyarthi

    Blasting is the most important activity in the mining industry, the world over. It is a well known fact that only part of the explosive energy gets utilized in causing the actual rock fragmentation. T

    Jan 1, 2007

  • ISEE
    The Effect of Confinement on Ground Vibration Amplitude

    By Jay Rodgers

    There has been a longstanding acceptance that burden plays a major role in the magnitude of ground vibration amplitudes generated from surface blasting. Much of the data that this belief is based upon

    Jan 1, 2003

  • ISEE
    Explosive Detection Recovery and Disposal

    By Robert McClure

    The detection, recovery and disposal of commercial explosives and explosive waste has always carried a level of risk and requires specialized equipment and technical expertise. Improperly stored, disc

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    Quantifying Your Blast Fragmentation Using Split-Desktop

    By Kirstin Girdner, Tom BoBo, Brian Norton, John Kemeny

    Split Engineering is a truly customer oriented company dedicated to providing quantified fragmentation information of the highest integrity to enable process management and control. Technical decision

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    “Computerized Drill for Quarrying Automates the Drilling Process”

    By Maurice Hunter

    The paper outlines recent design developments in the computerization of surface crawler drills for the quarry industry. It references the technology firstly developed for the underground mining and co

    Jan 1, 2003

  • ISEE
    New Blasting Techniques to Eliminate Subgrade Drilling, Improve Fragmentation, Reduce Explosive Consumption and Lower Ground Vibrations

    By R. Frank Chiappetta

    A new blasting technique has been developed by International Technologies, LLC. to eliminate subgrade drilling, lower ground vibrations, improve fragmentation and reduce explosive consumption. The new

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    Running a Drill Program that Supports the Mission of Blasting

    By William D. Hissem

    While much technology has been developed and brought to bear in the area of blasting applications, the foundation work required for success in the muck pile begins with the drilling program.

    Jan 1, 1997

  • ISEE
    Pump Safety Tests Regarding Emulsion Explosives (48854aaa-273e-44f8-b19f-684e2e8c5647)

    By Hans Perlid

    In the handling of emulsion explosives pumping is a key operation. A number of serious accidents has shown that pumping can be a risky operation and should be carefully considered and investigated. Th

    Jan 1, 1996