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  • 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
    Mitigating Oil Disasters Via Underwater Explosive Lensing: A Preliminary Study

    By Jason Baird, Philip Mulligan

    This report details the preliminary calculations governing the underwater collapse of an oil pipe via explosive lensing. An explosive lens changes the detonation wave produced by an explosive by chang

    Jan 1, 2013

  • ISEE
    Theory of Dynamic Confinement

    By Dr. Tristan Worsey, Dr. Jhon Silva-Castro

    Confinement is an important aspect of blasting. Reducing and increasing confinement can determine whether a blast design performs properly. Over-confined shots usually have poor fragmentation, higher

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Enhancing Mining Productivity during Thunderstorms with Wireless Initiation Systems

    By Orica Peru, Pedro Lozada

    Maintaining a continuous mining process during thunderstorms is one of the primary challenges in Peru's open-pit mines. Safety protocols necessitate the establishment of exclusion zones to minimize th

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Advanced Electronic Blasting Technology, AEBT Breaking 3, 2015.000 Tonnes of Ore within a millisecond

    By Winfried Rosenstock

    AEBT has been available for a couple of years and is successfully applied in Australia. Up to now it was mainly used in coal surface mining at the Australian East- Coast. Presently, the proved results

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    Creating Micro Fractures in Rock Fragments for Blasting Efficiency Improvement

    By S. Green, R. Yang

    Blasting is a commonly used method for rock fragmentation in mining operations for mineral extraction. It involves breaking the rock mass into small pieces, and ideally creating micro fractures within

    Jan 1, 2024

  • ISEE
    Development of Heat Resistant Emulsion Explosives

    By Fumihiko Sumiya, Koichi Kurokawa, Yukio Kato, Tetsuya Sawada

    In some metal mines, it is a serious problem the decomposition of explosives which occurs suddenly by contact with ore containing pyrites under high temperature conditions. In the present paper, we in

    Jan 1, 1992

  • ISEE
    Controlled Sequential Blasting

    By E Emery Jr Gray

    A need for more delay periods other than those normally manufactured throughout the explosives industry rarely occurs. This paper will discuss one such incident from an analytical view through practic

    Jan 1, 1976

  • ISEE
    Blast Fragmentation for Maximising the Sag Mill Throughput at Porgera Gold Mine

    By Alex Jankovich, Darren Thornton, Sarrna Kanchibotla, Cam Grundstrom

    The Porgera joint venture and Dyno Noble have commissioned a joint project to optimise the drill and blast operations to increase the overall profitability of the mine. One of the aims of this project

    Jan 1, 2001

  • ISEE
    Geophysical Exploration, Blasting Parameters, and Fragmentation in Quarries

    By Ivan Kovac, Pero Marjanovic, Branko Bozic

    "The paper deals with results of geophysical survey of the rock masses, and the blasting parameterswhich have effect on the fragmentation in quarries . A relationship between the burden, which is the

    Jan 1, 1999

  • ISEE
    Winning thin coal seams with Stratablast™- improving coal recovery and sustainability at Anglo Coal’s Drayton Mine

    By Matthew Graham, Tapan Goswami, Geoff Brent

    In dragline coal mining operations, throw blasting is used for the controlled placement of overburden to maximise coal exposure rates or to minimise overburden removal costs. This may necessitate sacr

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    Dynamic Shock Tests for Dynamite Slurry and Emulsion Explosive

    By Kenichiro Yamamoto, Masaharu Murakami, Toshio Matsuzawa, Yoshiyuki Ikeda

    In a series of tests, we examined the dynamic shock resistance of Emulsion Explosive in water and compared it with that of Dynamite and Slurry Explosives. Both the distance between donor and acceptor

    Jan 1, 1983

  • ISEE
    Dynamic Response of a Fully Grouted Resin Roof Bolt to Blast Loading

    By Francis O. Otuonye

    A time series and system analysis modeling technique was applied to signals from strain egages mounted on a fully grouted resin roof bolt and signals from accelerometers mounted on the bolt head and r

    Jan 1, 1987

  • ISEE
    Field Application of Concentrated Remote Control Blasting System

    By Minoru Kawamora, Koichi Kurokawa, Kenji Hashimoto

    We developed concentrated remote control blasting system to blasting simultaneously at a large number of sites in a mine of large scale. This system is consisted of three parts, the first part is a co

    Jan 1, 1990

  • ISEE
    Dynamic Pressure Study to Minimize Misfires at Pueblo Viejo Mine

    By Ricardo González Dumuihual, Carlos Scherpenisse

    A monitoring campaign to record dynamic pressures generated by detonation of a single blasthole was implemented at Barrick Gold´s Pueblo Viejo Open Pit mine (PVDC), located in the Dominican Republic .

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Production Blasting and the Development of Open Pit Slopes (8e693b17-abb0-4b98-9d31-35dc00c5ce79)

    By John P. Ashby

    Production blasting is a process of destruction of rock masses in order that ore may be extracted. Many open pit operations are faced with the apparently conflicting requirements of providing large qu

    Jan 1, 1980

  • ISEE
    Non-Ideal Detonation Modelling of Ammonium Nitrate-Based Explosives

    By Paulo Couceiro

    Highly non-ideal explosives usually tend to react expressively below their ideal detonation velocities. In these cases, dimensional effects and product heterogeneities become important to proper model

  • ISEE
    Non-Ideal Detonation Modelling of Ammonium Nitrate-Based Explosives Paulo Couceiro

    By Paulo Couceiro

    Highly non-ideal explosives usually tend to react expressively below their ideal detonation velocities. In these cases, dimensional effects and product heterogeneities become important to proper model

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Cost Reduction Using Electronic Delay Detonator in Brazailian CVRD Mines

    By M. L. Mendes, J. Q. Nojiri, S. C. Botelho, A. P. Campanha

    In February 28, 2001 JOULE coordinated the first tests with an electronic detonator in South America at an iron ore operation - ITABIRA MINES from the Brazilian COMPANHIA VALE DO RIO DOCE (CVRD) - the

    Jan 1, 2002

  • ISEE
    Optimized Drilling Through Automation

    By Eric C. Gerst

    "In this current era of soft commodity and coal prices the mining industry is turning towards optimizingall levels of production to reduce operating costs. Part of this trend includes the automation o

    Jan 1, 2017