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  • ISEE
    Safer Blasting Using Electronic Detonators With Integrated Temperature Measuring Capabilities

    By G Mendoza, L Taddei, C Robertson

    It is a well-known industry fact that many mine sites around the globe experience blast holes that have elevated temperatures due to reactive ground, geochemical reactions, geomorphic reactions, sub l

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Controlled Blasting for Grasberg Slope Optimization

    By Allen Kinney, P. T. Freeport

    This paper presents the methodology for final wall-controlled blasting utilized at the Grasberg Mine. The resulting optimized slopes representa14%and17% increase to bench face angle (BFA) and inter-ra

  • ISEE
    The US DoD RBESCT Development of SAFER

    By William Yutmeyer, Meredith Hardwick

    Since 1996 there have been at least two teams formed within the U.S. Government to develop a consistent set of risk-based standards to be used to govern safety. The first of these was the Risk and Let

    Jan 1, 2007

  • ISEE
    Characterizing Emissions Produced by Burning Chlorinated Energetic Materials

    By James L. Wilcox, Douglass P. Bacon

    As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and state regulators increase the stringency and enforcement of regulations concerning emissions produced by open-air detonation of energetic materi

    Jan 1, 1996

  • ISEE
    Using a low-density explosive and setting proper blast patterns to prevent Sympathetic Detonation at Itabira Mine in the Quadrilátero Ferrífero region.

    By Vitor Barcelos, Eduardo Elói, Gabriella Vaz, Davi Oliveira, Leandro Silveira

    Following a routine production blast at Vale S.A.'s Itabira Mine in the Quadrilátero Ferrífero region of Minas Gerais, Brazil, nearby residents registered complaints about blast-induced vibrations. An

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    ApplicationofArcGISProinBlast-InducedGroundVibrationAnalysisinanOpenPit CopperMine

    By Yong Pan, Purushotham Tukkaraja

    It has been well understood that blasting is the cost-effective method for breaking rocks as compared with the mechanical systems. However, vibrations induced by blasting in open-pit mines could pose

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    Fragmentation Optimization Techniques using 5.5 inch Hole Plugs at the Holcim Cement – St. Genevieve Quarry

    By Douglas Bartley

    As the economy continues to slowly recover, our industry continues to finds ways to increase productivity while being forced to cut costs. The drilling and blasting process is the starting point of an

    Jan 1, 2012

  • ISEE
    Application of Rudimentary Signature Hole Analysis

    By Michael Laing

    Blasting regulation and restrictions are tougher today than ever before. When blasting in population centers, strict limitations are often placed on the environmental effects caused by blasting, more

    Jan 1, 2017

  • ISEE
    Seismic Monitoring of Production Blasts

    By Klaus G. Hinzen

    Seismic observations offer the only possibility for remote sensing of physical processes like shock-front spreading, material crushing and ground movement. A better understanding of these processes wi

    Jan 1, 1989

  • ISEE
    Perimeter Control Utilising Electronic Detonators

    By John Wall

    The use of electronic detonators in civil tunnelling applications, to reduce vibration is small firings has been successfully utilised for a number of years. As part of the mining industry’s commitmen

    Jan 1, 2012

  • ISEE
    Blasting Near a Crusher

    By Scott G. Giltner, Alex Schwenk

    Blasting within 250 ft of a crusher was successfully executed through the application of electronic detonators, 3-D imagery, signature hole analysis, custom loading of blast holes. The blast was well

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Intrinsic Benefits of Presplitting - Relieving Gas Penetration in Addition to Lowering Blast Vibrations to Highwalls

    By J. P. Remi Proulx, Areli Rodriguez, Ruilin Yang

    Historically, presplitting has been considered effective in reducing the impact of blast vibrations on highwalls. However, it remains a debated topic: how significantly can it protect highwalls, and i

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Implementation of narrow veins mining in a zinc mine

    By M. Gonçalves Peixoto da Silva, E. Rodrigo Carvalho Souza Siqueira

    Mining in narrow veins is commonly applied for precious metals, generally carried out to extract gold in underground mines, due to the ore occurrence on narrow veins, mainly up to 2-meter large. The c

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Explosives Casting Technology in Surface Mining

    By D E. Shaw, J B. Case, J Gusek

    Explosive casting of overburden is defined as the use of explosives in blasting to move overburden to a spoil pile without rehandling. Studies of the economic feasibility of the method, and the formul

    Jan 1, 1980

  • ISEE
    Put Your Money on Your Paperwork

    By John L. Didlinger

    We all hate the paper work in keeping accurate blasting records. Nevertheless, have you ever thought what those records could show you? Think about it. Those records could show you vibrations, noise,

    Jan 1, 1997

  • ISEE
    Airblast Reduction from Effective Blasthole Stemming

    By Duane Skidmore, Francis Otuonye, Calvin J. Konya

    Proper stemming not only affects the rock breakage process, but also controls the unwanted side effects of blasting such as airblast, ground vibration, and flyrock. Little research has been conducted

    Jan 1, 1982

  • ISEE
    Journal: USDA’s Wildlife Services Explosive Safety Program “Managing Wildlife Damage”

    By Alton Dunaway, Kevin Sullivan, Charles Gray, Doug Hall, Kevin Grant, Kelly Thiel, John Paulson, Bruce Leland, Cole Boyd

    Beaver (Castor canadensis) are responsible for economic losses exceeding $4 billion over the last 4 decades in the southeastern United States alone. A large portion of these damages occurs to public r

    Jan 1, 2007

  • ISEE
    Anti - Bomb Remote Controlled Inspection Robot

    By G. Geremia, M. I. Serrano, L. Costa, Strohaecker

    The advances in electronics and the development of more efficient algorithms, allow for the designing of more complex and sophisticated automated systems. The new devices include lighter, faster, reli

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    Shaking the Bugs at the Center for Disease Control [CDC]

    By Mick Fritz, Ryan Gilmore

    The Center for Disease Control [CDC] is in the midst of a twenty year project, part of which includes demolishing existing buildings and erecting taller, more modern structures within the same foundat

    Jan 1, 2008

  • ISEE
    Inco Limited Upper Blind Slot Raise 8M (25') to 12M (40') Longhole Carbide Drilling (L.C.D.) Method

    By Steven Richardson, E A. Cameron, Reza "Ray" Jambakhsh

    This paper outlines the design and implementation of a method to use Long hole Carbide drilling to blast an "Upper Blind Slot Raise" in the range of 12m (40 ft).

    Jan 1, 1992