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  • ISEE
    Improving Productivity at Farco Mining of Texas Using Emulsion/ANFO Blends

    By Nick Lewis

    Farce Mining of Texas is a surface coal mine located in Laredo, Texas. Farce mines and sells approximately 600,000 tons /year of bituminous coal. A map showing the location of Laredo is provided in F

    Jan 1, 1994

  • ISEE
    Elimination of Two-Pass Benching at Colowyo Coal

    By Alan Jorgansen, Dave Hummer, Scott Scovira

    Kennecott Energy's Colowyo Coal Mine is the largest open pit coal mine in Colorado and produces 5.5 MM tons per year. Colowyo uses the terrace mining method to recover up to seven seams of rolling coa

    Jan 1, 2003

  • ISEE
    Economic Optimization of the Blasting-Crushing-Grinding Comminution Process

    By Kai Nielsen

    The paper presents the results of several industrial and laboratory blasting, crushing and grinding tests and experiments investigating how blasting can influence the subsequent crushing and grinding

    Jan 1, 1998

  • ISEE
    3000t Controlled Chamber Standing Shot

    By He Guangyi

    Combining living examples, the paper introduces the controlled chamber standing shot of more than 3000t explosives initiated at one time with Nonel under complicated circumstances and the experience o

    Jan 1, 1998

  • ISEE
    Back to the Basics: Electronic Detonators

    By Larry Schneider

    In recent years, many individuals looking into the future of the blasting industry have predicted that the most likely next technological breakthrough would be the use of high precision, digitally con

    Jan 1, 2006

  • ISEE
    The Influence of Geology on Blasthole Deviation (0b527217-6b23-477f-8c0b-03e530d5c921)

    Blasthole deviation is a frequent, well documented and undesirable occurrence in mining operations. It is caused by the drill string mechanics, operating variables and the interaction between the dril

    Jan 1, 1996

  • ISEE
    Drilling and Blasting Trends into the 21st Century

    By John Dean Smith

    In order to discuss problem solving techniques for the future. we must first review the past. This paper will discuss the drilling and blasting problems and techniques that were used by .Imax Coal in

    Jan 1, 1991

  • ISEE
    Drilling Efficiency and the Associated Benefits to the Mining Process

    By Lee B. Paterson

    Mining Engineers throughout the world have an appreciation for the importance of the role of the Blasthole Drill in one of the primary elements of the mining process. This paper highlights areas that

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Journal: Blast Vibration and Seismograph Section / Accuracy of Blasting Seismographs

    By Bob Turnbull

    The International Society of Explosives Engineers (ISEE), at its 1995 annual conference, established a Seismograph Standards Working Group to develop performance standards for blast vibration seismogr

    Jan 1, 2007

  • ISEE
    Determination of Air Blast Overpressure Levels

    By Karl E. Burgher

    Since World War II, the need for the use of explosives with testing, construction, demolition, mining and quarrying near urban areas has increased dramatically. Once remote, testing areas have been en

    Jan 1, 1988

  • ISEE
    The History and Development of Permissible Explosives for Underground Coal Mining (99bcf922-54c7-4892-afa2-e6992e96fe29)

    By Robert B. Hopler

    First, a definition: “an explosive is called a permissible explosive when it is similar in all respects to the sample that passed certain tests by the national Bureau of Mines, and when it is used in

    Jan 1, 1995

  • ISEE
    Journal: Safety Talk / Regulatory Compliance - Transportation Compliance Challenges

    By Ann Barron

    “Hurry up” is the latest battle cry at explosives companies struggling to stay in compliance with the ever-growing onslaught of government regulations. The pressure continues to mount on industry prof

    Jan 1, 2006

  • ISEE
    Changes Contained In Amended ATF P 5400.7, Also known as the "Orange Book"

    By ATF Publications

    The following is a summary of the changes that were incorporated into the new Federal Explosives Regulations, 27 CFR Part 55, dated 9/2000. However, in light of the recent events of September 2001, a

    Jan 1, 2002

  • ISEE
    Blasting to the Rescue, Underwater Concrete Bridge-Pier Demolition

    By Jerry Wallace

    A highway bridge demolition project to allow shipping access to a new container port in Puget Sound ran into trouble when contract-stipulated mechanical means of demolition failed. Blasting was then e

    Jan 1, 1999

  • ISEE
    Vibrating Wire Gages Watch Dynamical Structural Integrity During Blasting

    By A. Feldman

    Measuring dynamic effects on existing structures such as dams and bridges during earthquakes or blasting is frequently done using strong motion detectors. However, a more comprehensive dynamic structu

    Jan 1, 2006

  • ISEE
    Vibration Control in a Tunnel Project under an Existing Hospital

    By Pertti Paavola, Hikki Rasanen

    This paper describes a very exacting tunneling project. Planning and technical realization of this service and transportation tunnel was especially difficult as a matter of vibration control, because

    Jan 1, 1997

  • ISEE
    Post-Blast Evaluation Through Shovel Performance Monitoring

    By Carl Hendricks, Malcolm Scoble

    There currently exists no viable means of obtaining continuous feedback on blast efficiency. This paper describes the adaptation of a loading shovel to serve as a diagnostic tool to evaluate the succe

    Jan 1, 1990

  • ISEE
    Drill & Blast Optimization in India an Economic & Environmental Review

    By C. Navalkar

    Systematic drilling & blasting techniques are currently being viewed in the mining & construction industry as a correct 8z scientific approach for optimization process in rock excavation, as drill & b

    Jan 1, 2001

  • ISEE
    Blasting in the New Mellinnium: Planning for the Unexpected

    By Steve Dillingham

    The horrific events surrounding September 11th left Americans with a feeling of sudden helplessness...the shock of being unprepared and powerless. From this tragedy, we can understand the need to prep

    Jan 1, 2003

  • ISEE
    Explosives Control Legislation in the New Congress

    By Reynold N. Hoover

    The bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on April 19, 1995, has once again renewed public debate surrounding the availability and use of explosives in the United States.

    Jan 1, 1996