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  • ISEE
    RF Susceptibility of Electronic Detonators

    By B. Papillon

    There has been a veritable increase in the adoption of electronic detonators in the last few years. Electronic detonators offer several distinctive features over electric and non-el (shock tube) deton

    Jan 1, 2009

  • ISEE
    Journal: Big Sky and Beyond Explosives, Avalanches and Regulations

    By Mike Boissonneault

    It was three years ago when the “storm of the century” had taken a firm grip over the Pacific West Coast and inland areas. At the Big Sky ski resort in Montana on Christmas morning two ski patrollers

    Jan 1, 2001

  • ISEE
    Non-Electric Shock Tube Initiation Systems Applications and Hookups

    By John Watson, Tom Treleaven

    This guide presents nur-nerous patterns that provide 8 millisecond separations between initiated charges. The guide is tabulated in seven sections to provide Quick reference by number of decks or bunc

    Jan 1, 1995

  • ISEE
    A Simple Method of Determining Site-Specific Safe Decking Procedures in Order to Avoid Dynamic Pressure Issues When Decking

    By Neal Lee, Braden T. Lusk, Brendan McCray

    Determining the minimum amount of inert material that can be used between explosive columns is a complex problem. Using too little inert material can result in detonator/primer failure, either by symp

    Jan 1, 2016

  • ISEE
    Stemming Enhancement Tests

    A series of stemming confinement tests were conducted at a test site near Vernal, Utah. The purpose of the study was to determine the relative performance of various stemming enhancement “plugs”, stem

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Comparative Blasting Using Non-Electric Pyrotechnic Delays and the Electrodet Electronic Delay System at a Limestone Quarry in New York State, USA

    By Carl Lubbe, Ron Frye, Wayne Curtis, Julie Pecori, Dan Leach

    Blasting conducted in the USA using the new Electronic Initiation System developed by Altech has shown that an accurate delay system will benefit the customer. Results from test work clearly showed th

    Jan 1, 1997

  • 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

  • ISEE
    Case Study: Systematically Improving Drilling and Blasting Operations in Hard-Rock Mines

    By Reinhold Schnell, Piers Wendlandt, Nathan Rouse

    Drilling and blasting are key components of every hard-rock (i.e.,metal/nonmetal/coal) mining operation. Well-executed and maintained drilling and blasting can have a major positive impact on the over

  • ISEE
    Underwater Blasting and Train-induced Ground Vibrations on 80 Years-old Building

    By Paulo José Costa Couceiro Junior, Manuel Lopez Cano

    In 2011, two historic outcrop rocks known as Teffé and Itapema located in the navigation channel of the Port of Santos, Brazil (Latin America’s largest port) – were excavated by drilling and blasting

    Jan 1, 2016

  • 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
    Regulation Compliance: Security in Manufacturiing, Transportation, Storage and Use of Commercial Explosives

    By John Capers

    •The IME is the Safety and Security Association of the commercial explosives industry in the United States and Canada. •Founded in 1913 •Board of Governors •5 Standing committees- 1. Technical 2. Envi

    Jan 1, 2006

  • ISEE
    The Exex 1000 Computer Aided Blasting (CAB) System

    By Ronald L. Cocklin, Vivian Patz

    Blasting techniques are becoming increasingly sophisticated as the need for improving mining efficiency grows. One of the areas of blasting that has never been fully exploited, due to a lack of a cont

    Jan 1, 1995

  • ISEE
    Changing the Landscape of Surface Mining through Fully Wireless Initiation Systems

    By Nolan Eckroade, Nigel Pereira

    Wireless electronic blasting systems are a new technology that enable truly wireless initiation through rock, air and water. This is achieved using low frequency magnetic induction waves to wirelessly

  • ISEE
    Lightning Detection and Warning Systems

    By William H. Highlands

    Lightning is a natural phenomenon which poses a potential hazard to people, structures, and equipment unless adequate protection is provided. The type of protection required is related to the nature a

    Jan 1, 1989

  • ISEE
    Improved Blasting Control and Quantity Calculations Using Reflectorless Laser Systems

    By Cam Thomas

    The initial application for reflectorless laser technology was for profiling rock faces to determine front row burden and improve flyrock control and airblast. Over the past fifteen years a number of

    Jan 1, 2003

  • ISEE
    Portable, Multi-Channel and Continuous Velocity of Detonation Recorders (122b6f71-61a6-4f23-afba-c5878df1df8c)

    By Jackson R. Pressley, Bruce Vandenberg

    The knowledge of how and when your explosives go off can help you make intelligent decisions regarding future application of explosives thus removing some of the black magic associated with blasting.

    Jan 1, 1992

  • ISEE
    Lothological Recognition Based on Monitored Drilling Performance Parameters

    By Jonathan Peck, Doug Pollitt, Malcolm Scoble

    Over the past 5 years the Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, McGill University, has been involved in the performance monitoring of both percussive and rotary drills. Studies conducted

    Jan 1, 1991

  • ISEE
    Blast Design and Diagnostics Using, Portable Solid State, High-Speed Videography Systems

    By Laura Bustemante, Bruce Vandenberg, Fred Huettig

    Recent advances in solid-state, field portable, fast framing video camera systems and PC based frame capture hardware now allow blast imaging up to 1000 frames per second. Up to 8 seconds of data can

    Jan 1, 1998

  • ISEE
    Effect of Explosive Type on Particle Velocity Criteria in Ground Vibration

    By SMF Hossaini

    With the aim of a clearer understanding of the applicability of existing empirical equations for blast induced ground vibration, an investigation has been conducted on three mostly applied forms of su

    Jan 1, 2004

  • 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