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  • ISEE
    Blasting In Close Proximity to Densely Populated Communities

    By Radhe Krishna, Mutale William Chanda, Timothy Mwale

    Blasting as a process is the emplacement of industrial explosives into blast holes suitably located to a free surface and detonated. Every blast hole containing a certain amount of explosive charge un

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    On Board Excavator Dilution Detector

    By Benjamin Cebrian

    The new technology presented in this paper is a patented system that is installed on board excavators (backhoe or front shovel types). Several control points are set along ore/waste contacts and their

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Benchmarking Drill and Blast Compliance to Design, A Case Study

    By Alan Tordoir, Mark Roberts

    The drill and blast process is a critical function within the production cycle which significantly impacts the ability of an operation to effectively meet its safety and production targets. Acknowledg

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    The Use of Seismic Measurements to Determine the Blastability of Rock

    By R R. Dimock

    A goal of all mine operators is to optimize the breakage of the inplace rock to achieve maximum excavating efficiency. The use of the seismograph at Kennecott Copper Corporation's Nevada Mines Divisio

    Jan 1, 1976

  • ISEE
    Diagnosis of Utility Pipelines' Response to Explosives using Modal Analysis

    By Selamawit Asfaw, Mohamad Sharif

    In recent years, the use of modal analysis has increased to include many different aspects of the construction industry. Computer modal analysis can be used in determining the dynamic properties of a

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Industrial Risk Assessment and its Applications to Commercial Explosives

    By David Leidel

    A major characteristic that distinguishes modern society from its predecessors is the understanding that events are not driven by the whims of the gods, pre-ordained fate or nature, but are controlled

    Jan 1, 2007

  • ISEE
    Shockwave-Critical Charge Distance to Objects in Water

    By Bob de Raadt

    For a long time industrial underwater blasting has stood in need of a calculation method, for the determination of shockwave-proof as well as shockwave-effective charge distances to objects in water.

    Jan 1, 1980

  • ISEE
    Update on Blasting Near a Crusher

    By Scott G. Giltner, Alex Schwenk

    This paper is an update on a paper presented at the 2022 ISEE conference. The original paper presented how the mine operator desired to open up ore reserves near several mine structures including two

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Wight Pit High Grade Wall Slash

    By Art Frye, Lee Pratt, Gaichang Zhao, Greg Newman

    This paper will discuss the Wight Pit wall slash at the Mount Polley open-pit copper-gold mine that scavenged a high grade block of ore from two double-benches of the pit wall. The Wight Pit orebody,

    Jan 1, 2011

  • ISEE
    Estimating Explosive Gas Pressure Distribution

    By John N. Jr Edl

    Geokinetics, Inc. has pioneered an in-situ oil shale retorting production process that provides the requisite void space for producing a permeable rubble bed, within the retort zone, by using the expl

    Jan 1, 1983

  • ISEE
    Dilution and Ore-Loss Optimization in Underground Mines

    By Sami Kara, Marsel Nabium

    This paper provides an overview of the solution applied in underground Silver mine in Russia. The paper reviews the dilution problem throughout the entire mining process, and provides a rational appro

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Near Borehole Fracture and Fragmentation Studies in Copper Porphyries

    By Catherine T. Aimone

    A series of experiments have been performed to characterize fragmentation and microcracking in quartz monzonite copper porphyry. The flyer plate impact method was used to generate plane shock waves in

    Jan 1, 1985

  • ISEE
    Improving the Amount of Material Cast at Highvale Mine Using Electronic Detonators

    By Robert Slivinski, Kyle Hobbs, Michael Stern, John Willox, Brad Jewson

    Prairie Mines & Royalty Ltd. produces over 12 million tonnes annually of thermal coal for TransAlta’s Sundance and Keephills power stations from the Highvale Mine. This opencast mine is next to a lake

    Jan 1, 2008

  • ISEE
    Dust Control in the Environment Using New Technologies and Blasting Techniques.

    By L. Muñoz, L. Steffen, W. Vilas

    The emission of particulate material is one of the several parameters related to environmental control in mining operations near communities. Blasting is an event that generates and leaves a large amo

    Jan 1, 2024

  • ISEE
    NOx Emissions from Blasting Activities in a Surface Mining Operation

    By Joshua Hoffman, Catherine Johnson, Braden Lusk

    Blasting conducted in surface coal mining operations in the Appalachian region consumes a significant amount of blasting agents. Emission of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) from these operations potentially

    Jan 1, 2014

  • ISEE
    Blasting-Related Carbon Monoxide Incident in Bristow, Virginia

    By Richard J. Mainiero, Marcia L. Harris, James H. Rowland

    In the past several years, there have been a number of blasting-related carbon monoxide migration incidents. In each case, there have been some common factors that appear to be related to carbon monox

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    A Method of Measuring Continuous Detonation Rates Using Off-the-Shelf Items

    By Robert A. Cortese, Lon D. Santis

    This paper describes a method of measuring continuous detonation rates using standard electronic parts, coaxial cable, and a data recorder such as an oscilloscope. Three six-volt lantern batteries or

    Jan 1, 1996

  • ISEE
    Theoretical Study and Possible Application of Blast Casting Technique in Phosphate Rock Strip Mining

    By Salah A. Taqieddin

    The blast casting technique of removing overburden is an innovative technique which was successfully used in the mining of certain surface coal and quarries. This method was found to be efficient in

    Jan 1, 1992

  • ISEE
    Toxic Fumes on the Rocks

    By Michael S. Wieland

    Toxic fume concentrations from industrial mining explosives depend somewhat upon the type of rock (or other strata) confinement. Though traditional detonation theory disregards this influence, the wor

    Jan 1, 2005

  • ISEE
    The Development of a Low Shock Energy Ammonium Nitrate Based Explosive (719231f0-e844-434c-a59b-03c7b4557859)

    By Jaki M. Wilson, Neville T. Moxon

    The detonation pressure of ANFO can be significantly reduced by the addition of low density materials such as polystyrene, bagasse, sawdust or perlite. Laboratory and field test results have shown tha

    Jan 1, 1989