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  • ISEE
    Ore guiding in underground mining using MWD and machine learning

    By J. Sanchidrián, A. Fernández, P. Segarra

    The combination of chemical analysis techniques as XRF and measurement-while-drilling (MWD) technology in underground mining is a novel approach to gather comprehensive on-line information about physi

    Jan 1, 2024

  • ISEE
    EU Type Certification of Non-Standard Electronic Initiations Systems used in Blasting at Mines and Quarries

    By Matthew Clay, Colin Chambers, Susan Hookham

    Opencast (quarries) and underground mines around the world use blasting methods to mine valuable ore. Traditional blasting systems use technologies such as electric delay detonator systems (developed

    Jan 1, 2017

  • ISEE
    Digital Shock Tube

    By Theirry Bernard

    The era of non-electric systems as an initiating system has revolutionised the blasting world by introducing a very safe initiating system that is reliable, with initiation sequence possibilities that

    Jan 1, 2007

  • ISEE
    Western Europe's Largest Underground Blast

    By P McConnell, T Garrigan

    Tara Mines Limited, in Ireland, is Western Europe's largest zinc mine. Annual metal production, from 2.5 million tonnes of ore, consists of 180,000 tonnes of zinc and 34,000 tonnes of lead.

    Jan 1, 1989

  • ISEE
    Review and Learnings from a Surface Quarry Rockfall Incident

    By Andrew Moore

    It has long been common practice to conduct drilling and blasting operations at surface quarries in the Midwest in close proximity to near-vertical highwalls. The main reasons for such an approach, an

    Feb 6, 2023

  • ISEE
    Using New Technologies to Achieve Customer Tailored Fragmentation

    By Felix Degold, Mark Ganster

    Achieving a customer optimized fragmentation by using robust data from new technologies e.g. GPS positions of boreholes, fragmentation analysis to calibrate the geology and fragmentation prediction mo

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Blasting Next to an Unsupported Road using Electronic Detonators

    By Tony Rorke, Sydney Thabethe

    A large overburden blast was carried out at Douglas Colliery, Middelburg Mine Services, close to a national road in South Africa. The road is a busy route between Witbank and Bethal and damage to the

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    Drilling and Blasting in Hot and Reactive Ground Conditions at Barrick Goldstrike's Meikle Mine

    By D. Scott Scovira, Remi Proulx

    The Meikle Mine is a high grade, underground gold mine utilizing primary-secondary longhole open stoping with delayed backfill to produce 3000 stpd of ore. Hot and reactive ground conditions were enco

    Jan 1, 2000

  • 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
    Diagnosing and Modifying Off-Site Blast Effects by Seismic Means - A Case Study

    By Stuart Brashear, Robert Brush, Ben Cook

    In early 1993, the Piney River quarry owned and operated by the Blue Ridge Stone Corporation of W.W. Boxley, received a series of complaints from the owners of a 130 year-old historic farmhouse that h

    Jan 1, 1995

  • ISEE
    Advanced Blasting Optimization for Enhanced Productivity: The X-2Mill Solution

    By Jorge Blázquez, Paulo Couceiro, Patricio Vergara, Luis Martínez, Juan Navarro

    This study introduces the X-2Mill solution, a refined two-step methodology aimed at optimizing blast designs by aligning explosive energy with rock properties. The approach employs the X-4Traits Model

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Mountain Mass Surrenders to Man's Initiative & Daring

    By Yogesh Narula

    Nevis Bluff Landslide - On September 17” 2000, a rockfall measuring lO,OOOm3 at Nevis Bluff, New Zealand, triggered a loday emergency. It ended when a hazardous column of rock that towered over State

    Jan 1, 2002

  • ISEE
    What Really Is ANFO?

    By Jean M. Bouvet, Pierre M. Vuillaume

    There is not just one ANFO: ANFO explosive behaviour depends significantly on the blasting conditions and on its physico-chemical characteristics. For instance, ANFO effficiency increases whereas AN p

    Jan 1, 1993

  • ISEE
    Blasting Improvements by Using Most Active Rock Variations on Blast

    By Alain Blanchier, Anne Charline Sauvage

    Rock mass variations have a huge influence on explosives efficiency and on blasting results. Numerous blasting improvements could be gained by taking into account rock mass and its variations. However

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    The Testing of Structures and Structure-combinations to be Applied as Explosive-proof Enclosure

    By C. Heiss, A. Hofmann

    Due to an explosion in an Austrian steel works during the basic oxygen process, the Chair of Mining Engineering and Mineral Economics at the Montanuniversitaet Leoben was assigned with the set-up of a

    Jan 1, 2012

  • ISEE
    A Reanalysis of Fragmentation Data from the Red Dog Mine - Part 2

    By Norman Paley, Finn Ouchterlony

    Detailed fragmentation data for different blast delay timing tests at the Red Dog mine in Alaska are analyzed. This work is a continuation of previous work in which the crusher output was found to be

    Jan 1, 2013

  • ISEE
    Journal: 100 Years / Scientific American New York December 2, 1911 The First National Mine Safety Demonstration Study Of A Real Mine Explosion By Charles L. Wright, Fuel Engineer, Bureau Of Mines

    By Robert Hopler

    THE work that is being done by the Government to reduce the dangers of mining was brought out strikingly in the First National Mine-Safety Demonstration which occurred at Pittsburgh, Pa., on October 3

    Jan 1, 2012

  • ISEE
    Application of Geostatistical Tools in Measurement While Drilling to Assess Geotechnical Rock Conditions in Sublevel Caving

    By Clara Godoy, Álvaro Dapía, Paulo Couceiro, Pablo Segarra, José Ángel Sanchidrián, Juan Navarro

    This paper applies geostatistical tools in Measure While Drilling (MWD) data to estimate the probability distribution of values in all the points of the studied domain in order to assess the continuit

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Methane-air Mixture Air-blast Approximated Using Detonating Cord in Rock Dust Dispersibility Studies

    By BruneJurgen F., Richard C. Gilmore, Matthew Schreiner, Ray Johnson

    Explosive pockets of methane-air mixtures accumulate in underground coal mines and, when ignited, produce an air-blast wave that can disturb combustible coal dust on the floor, roof, and ribs. To prev

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    Slope stability through the application of low-energy explosives technology

    By Jorge Cárdenas, Diego Gamarra

    In previous phases of the mine, a landslide resulted in several losses in production delays. The stability of slopes in a mining operation is critical for the sustainability of the operation, as they

    Jan 21, 2025