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  • ISEE
    Confiner Strength and Thickness Effects on Detonation Characteristics of Emulsion Explosives

    By D. Lynn Gordon, Larry B. Weston, Michael W. Manhart, Patrick R. Bowden, Michael W. Redmond

    Study of confinement effects on detonation characteristics and subsequent fitting form development as a function of confiner strength and thickness.

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    JKVBOC Blast Movement Model Applications for Ore Control at Open Pit Mines

    By Constanza Bujes, Mark Jones, Graham Crook, Yansan Jamyanbaatar, Sedat Esen

    Tracking ore characteristics such as grade and hardness from its original position into the material handling and processing stages remains one of the key challenges in open pit mining of hard rock de

  • ISEE
    Destress Mass Blast in the North Regional Pillar at Brunswick Mine

    By Philemon Desrochers, Ken Qian Liu

    Following the success of the West Ore Zone distress mass blast in 2001 at Brunswick Mine, a similar approach was taken to distress the North Regional Pillar (NRP) which contained over 3 million tonnes

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    Regression Model for Surface Vibrations from Underground Operations

    By Tristan Worsey, Nathan Rouse, Daykin Schnell

    The authors were retained by a proposed underground metals mine operation to evaluate the potential blast vibration amplitudes that could be generated at surface structures above the proposed mine. Li

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Connecticut's "Call Before You Dig" System: New Laws and Regulations

    By Stephen G. Rieben

    Almost everyone has at least heard of the two one-call systems which serve New England. They are "Call Before You Dig", which covers Connecticut, and "Dig Safe", which covers the remaining five New En

    Jan 1, 1990

  • ISEE
    Mine To Mill Process Integration And Optimisation – Benefits And Challenges

    By Walter Valery, Sarma Kanchibotla

    Due to the global financial crisis, the world economy has turned upside down and most major economies in the world are facing severe recession for the past one and half year. During this period most c

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    Vertical Attenuation of Blast Vibrations

    By Catherine T. Aimone-Martin, Brent Meins

    Blast vibration monitoring for buried pipelines is typically conducted at the ground surface with a shallowly buried geophone. In many jurisdictions across the U.S., blast-related vibration limits se

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    Blast design optimization system to improve mining downstream operations by adapting the explosive energy to the rock mass based on drill monitoring data

    By P. Couceiro, J. Navarro

    A new methodology to perform selective blast designs by adapting the explosive energy, hole by hole (or in the hole), to the rock properties as a combination of their strength properties through the X

    Jan 1, 2024

  • ISEE
    Drilling and Blasting Optimization

    By Jorge Flores, Benjamin Cebrian

    Blast Optimization at a high altitude mine operation involves not only the selection of the right drilling designs and explosives but also the circumstances of operators working at low oxygen levels a

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    Modeling Reactive Sulfide Rock at the Red Dog Mine

    By Norman Paley, Zachary Pickett

    The Red Dog Mine is a high-grade zinc-lead mine located in northwest Alaska which began operations in November 1989. In June 2014 the upper half of a charge in a trim shot in the Aqqaluk pit deflagrat

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Kanalku Falls Blasting for Fish Habitat Improvement in Alaska

    By Catherine T. Aimone-Martin, Kristen Kolden

    In August of 2013 the USDA Forest Service (USFS) blasted bedrock at the base of a waterfall in Kanalku Creek within the Kootznoowoo Wilderness Area on Admiralty Island in the Tongass National Forest l

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    Reactivity and Spontaneous Detonation

    By Alastair Torrance, Italo Onederra, Do Sun Kim, Kush Patel, Gary Cavanough

    Reactivity of ammonium nitrate-based explosives is associated with the presence of sulphide in the ground reacting with explosive products and in some instances causing spontaneous reactions which can

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    Mine Blasting Accident Update

    By Larry R. Fletcher, John W. Kopp

    The safety record for explosives in U. S. mining is excellent considering that over 4 billion pounds of explosives are now being used each year. However, blasting accidents remain one of the most seri

    Jan 1, 1991

  • ISEE
    Blasting Accidents in Mining

    By Michael A. Peltier, Dennis V. D'Andreal, Larry R. Fletcher

    Accident data obtained from the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) were analyzed by the Bureau of Mines to determine the most frequent causes of blasting accidents in U.S. mining and to exam

    Jan 1, 1987

  • ISEE
    Impact of Open-pit Blasting on the Stability of Adjoining Multiseam Workings of Underground Coal Mine

    By Ajoy Singh

    A study was conducted to investigate the damage potential to underground multi-seam openings caused due to vibration generated by open-pit coal mine blasting. The objective was to recommend optimal ex

    Jan 1, 2012

  • ISEE
    Underground Airblast Monitoring for Blast Performance Diagnosis and Detailed Attenuation Modelling

    By Jon Hurt, Brent Meins, David Vardiman

    "Two test blasts were conducted at the Sanford Underground Research Facility to establish optimum blast designs and to limit blast effects on existing research rooms and equipment in preparation for t

    Jan 1, 2017

  • ISEE
    Blasting Access Holes in Thick Sea-Ice, Mcmurdo Sound, Antarctica

    By Martin Reed, John Wright

    Blasters with the United States Antarctic Program (USAP) have developed techniques for opening access holes in floating sea-ice where the use of conventional drilling equipment is impractical. The bla

    Jan 1, 2001

  • ISEE
    Journal: Vibration and Seismograph Section / Use of GPS and GPS Exchange Format Files in Pennsylvania

    By Rick Lamkie

    When investigating citizen complaints about blast vibration and airblast, it is important to be able to establish the spatial relationships between blasts, blasting seismographs monitoring the events,

    Jan 1, 2008

  • ISEE
    Pneumatic Stemming of Horizontal Holes with Particulate Material

    By Clay McNail, Paul N. Worsey, John Schillie

    "This paper is the result of undergraduate student research over the period of 2 semesters at UMR, which was focussed on developing a practical way to pneumatically stem horizontal boreholes, mostcomm

    Jan 1, 1999

  • ISEE
    Removing Booster Influences from Toxic Fumes

    By Michael S. Wieland

    "This report investigates whether it is tractable and thereupon reasonable to remove the boosterinfluences when ranking the toxic fumes of non-cap-sensitive mining explosives. The hazard potential is

    Jan 1, 1999