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  • 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
    Trench Blasting in Close Proximity to Existing Utilities in Ultra Metamorphic Rock

    By Tom Treleaven, Andrew Williams

    The town of Greenwich, CT, an exclusive suburb of New York City awarded several contracts for the installation of sanitary sewer in the North Mianus section of town. The Valley Road section was the mo

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    Thedaveytronic-Theintegrated Electronic Delay Detonator

    By Rapheal Trousselle

    For over 5 years, Davey Bickford has been developing and testing an electronic detonator blasting system. These new-technology detonators provide more accurate timing than conventional systems that re

    Jan 1, 1997

  • ISEE
    Applying up-to-date Blasting Technology and Mine to Mill Concept in Quarries

    By Robert McClure, Frederic Leclercq, Ricardo Chavez

    With significant vibration control and fragmentation challenges facing them, the CBS quarry (department of the Nord) successfully integrated a technical partner and mine to mill optimisation to deal w

    Jan 1, 2007

  • 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
    A Case Study Applying the Multiple Blasthole Fragmentation Model (MBF) at an Open Pit Mine

    By C. McAllister, D. Preece, J. Berendzen

    The Multiple Blasthole Fragmentation (MBF) model was developed recently and has been reported in previous papers. The MBF model accepts inputs from the blast design, such as: location and orientation

    Jan 1, 2016

  • ISEE
    High-wall Control at Anglo Gold Ashanti, Navachab Mine

    By Charles Pretorius, Henk Ludik

    Navachab Mine experiences difficulties with pit wall stability in certain areas of the mine. The main reason for the instability is the fact that the geology comprises many joints and faults. Blasting

    Jan 1, 2006

  • ISEE
    Journal: Junction Chamber Blasting November 22,1999

    By Edward Walter

    Rock excavation for tunneling projects occurs on a regular basis in the Cleveland area. These tunnels are being constructed to increase the capacity of the sanitary sewer system. Controlled blasting m

    Jan 1, 2001

  • ISEE
    Masterblaster Blasting Management System

    By Chris Uys, Johan Labuschagne

    Sishen Iron Ore Mine, located in the Northern Cape, is an open cast mine excavating approximately 100 million tons rock to produce 25 million tons of high grade haematite ore per annum. The size of th

    Jan 1, 1997

  • ISEE
    Thermodynamic Work Principal Overture — Not Just Rock n’Roll

    By Michael Wieland

    The resolving capacity of the thermodynamic work-principal model has been seriously refined over its twelve year history, so a review of the innovations, wrong turns and their rectification is warrant

    Jan 1, 2009

  • ISEE
    Back to the Basics; Nonelectric Initiation Shock Tube Systems, Part 2: General Applications

    By Larry Schneider

    I n the simplest application of a shock tube initiation system, the tubing acts as a “relay line” which passes a detonation signal from borehole to borehole. When the signal arrives at each borehole,

    Jan 1, 1995

  • ISEE
    The Analysis of Blast Vibration Data - What is the Current State of the Art?

    By Randall M. Wheeler

    Many of us have used a seismograph to measure peak particle velocity and frequency. But do we really understand why? Also, why do we measure particle velocity instead of displacement and/or accelerati

    Jan 1, 1997

  • ISEE
    Drill and Blast Instrumentation for Troubleshooting Underground Up-Hole Stoping

    By Braden Lusk, Tristan Worsey, Nathan Rouse, Kyle Hall

    Loading explosives up hole has challenges that are typically not seen in down hole explosive loading. Most explosives applications are not up hole. Lack of experience and technology can cause signific

    Jan 1, 2018

  • ISEE
    The Odd Challenges of Backcountry Trail Blasting

    By Ed Billington, Mike Shields

    The trail blaster is faced with a wide range of workrelated challenges, not the least being the work setting itself. It is usually remote, being anywhere from 5 to 30 or more miles (8 to 50 km) from a

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    Part A: Structural Response from Surface Coal Mine Blasting on a Residential Structure; Part B: House Response from Blast-Induced Low Frequency Ground Vibrations and Inspections for Related Interior Cracking

    By John H. Weigand, Stephen V. Crum

    "VIBRONICS, INC. instrumented and monitored a residential structure for response to,blasting at aMidwestern surface coal operation. The residence was owned by the mining company and was extremely clos

    Jan 1, 1998

  • ISEE
    Strain-based Instrumentation for Marine Terminal Rock Blasting

    By Cathy Aimone-Martin, Brent Meins

    A comprehensive instrumentation program was implemented at the Howland Hook Marine Terminal on Staten Island, NY during proximate underwater rock blasting in 2014. Forty-two blasts took place over a 4

    Jan 1, 2016

  • ISEE
    Haul Road Design Criteria

    By Laurance A. Beck

    Safety is the most important aspect of haul road design. Although other aspects of road installation enter decisions on design, the safety of persons using the road has to be foremost for the duration

    Jan 1, 1995

  • ISEE
    Geotechnical Influences on Blast Induced Stress Wave Propagation, Copper Cliffs, Ontario

    By Roger S. Jackson

    "This study interprets vibrations produced by single underground shots, recorded on surface by 135 digital seismographs laid out in four linear arrays. Several vibration anomalies were observed and ar

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    Wireless Electronic Blasting

    By Daniel Mallette, Richard Goodridge, C M. Lownds

    Despite a world of mobile devices that has many of us taking the ability to communicate wirelessly for granted, an in-hole wireless initiation system was thought to be not viable. The known and common

    Jan 1, 2016

  • ISEE
    Bench Face and Quarry Fragmentation Analysis: 3D Imaging vs. Scaling References

    By Daniel Ko, Ian Bell, Shahram Tafazoli, Bahram Sameti, Aylin Azmin

    Image-based remote sensing of rock fragmentation in mining and quarry applications essentially treats each rock in the image as a data object in order to determine the rock size distribution. An obvio

    Jan 1, 2015