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  • ISEE
    Journal: Recent Projects / Toledo Edison Steam Plant Twin Stacks

    The quiet banks of the Maumee River in Toledo, Ohio, received a wake-up call July 16 as two smokestacks in the Marina District were leveled with dynamite. B&B Wrecking, Inc. of Cleveland contracted th

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    Considerations in Blasting Influence on Grindability

    By Panagiotis (Takis) Katsabanis, Lyall Workman, Jack Eloranta

    The reduction of metallic ores to concentrate consumes a great deal of electrical energy. In the past two decades, a number of case studies have demonstrated a beneficial relationship between powder f

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    A High=Preformance Vibration Monitoring and Data Distribution System for Large-Scale Urban Development Projects

    By Robert Lee, Pertti Paavola

    Automated vibration monitoring and web-based data distribution has proven itself on the largest single construction project ever undertaken in Finland. The excavation for the Kamppi Center Project in

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    The Specifications said No Blasting

    By Timothy Fogarty, Gregory Poole, Roger Reeder, David Switz

    This project involved the construction of a new pump station and intake structure at an existing water treatment facility. Although the project involved a significant amount of rock removal, the speci

    Jan 1, 2012

  • ISEE
    Fragmentation Mill Throughput Improvement Through a Dual-Salt Sodium Nitrate Emulsion Product

    By Khushaal Popli, Vanessa Roeland, Brian Hall, Carl Diederichs

    Highland Valley Copper (HVC) has embraced an integrated Mine to Mill approach to comminution since the late 1990s. Previous blasting optimization was carried out through adjustments to blast pattern g

    Feb 6, 2023

  • ISEE
    Underwater Blast Pressures From A Confinded Rock Removal During The Miami Harbor Deepening Project

    By Terri Jordan, Gregory Hempen, Thomas Keevin

    Water-borne blast pressures from confined blasts were recorded as part of a submerged blasting program in Florida for channel deepening. The blasting was confined within the rock floor by stemming. Sh

    Jan 1, 2007

  • ISEE
    Structure Responses to a Confined Opening Cut Blast, Sumterville, FL

    By Jeff Senules, Oana Meins, Catherine Aimone-Martin, Scott Lanker, Brent Meins

    Global wall strains from 4 to 77 micro-strains were measured at three structures adjacent to a highly-confined Florida quarry blast when PPV amplitudes ranged up to 6.05 in/s. Increasing the peak zero

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Blasting Topologies for Electronic Initiation Systems

    By D. Lansburg

    Electronic detonators are increasingly being used in today’s blasting in quarries, seismic, surface and underground mines. Electronic detonators offer several distinctive features over electric and no

    Jan 1, 2011

  • ISEE
    Customer Site Safety at Orica

    By Frank Barker

    Mining operations present a very different environment to the suppliers of explosives, initiating systems and services, both on surface and underground. Typical hazards include underground movement, a

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Efficient and Safe Pre-Split Blasting Through Mechanized Explosive Loading System

    By Jorge Cárdenas, Gustavo Huerta, Regina Rocha Oriundo, Miguel Angel Humpire, Johan Salas Flores

    Currently a critical activity for slopes stability and safety in mining is pre-split blasting to reduce damage from trim blast. Most common explosive used are based on packaged explosives, with 1 ½ in

    Feb 6, 2023

  • ISEE
    Blasters' Survival

    By John C. Brulia

    The IME member companies, the ISEE along with its chapter organizations, the Federal, state and municipal regulatory agencies, and the industry consultants and suppliers have developed safety equipmen

    Jan 1, 1994

  • ISEE
    An Experimental Method of Determining Explosive Equivalency When Scaled Distance Approaches Zero

    By R. Hazael, R. Alford, R. Critchley

    The ability to compare explosives is fundamental. Numerous methods are used and while simple conversion factors are often used, the use of TNT Equivalency (TNTe) is not a simple subject as explosives

    Jan 1, 2024

  • ISEE
    Blasting for Rescue Applications

    By John Norman

    This paper will cover blasting techniques that are applicable to underground and other rescue that involves removing obstacles and breaking rock in close proximity to rescuers and subjects.

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Blast Desification Techniques (An Operator's Guide)

    By Patrick D. McLaughlin, C Fordham

    "The project outlined in the accompanying paper was to densify beach sands on the pond side ofa tailings dyke to the strength required for future dyke construction, This was to be achievedthrough the

    Jan 1, 1992

  • ISEE
    How the USDA Uses Explosives to Remove Beaver Dams in Unique Locations

    By Bruce R. Leland, Steven H. Smith, John D. Paulson

    The USDA - Wildlife Services has been removing beaver dams with explosives for over 30 years. This paper will discuss the history of the explosives program, summarize how we've evolved, and highlight

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Drill Monitoring & Navigation Systmes at BHP Billiton's Navajo Mine

    By John Vynne

    BHP’s Navajo coal mine installed drill monitoring and high precision navigation systems on their three overburden drills during 2002 and 2003. Details of the DrillNav system hardware and reporting sys

    Jan 1, 2007

  • ISEE
    Blasting, Material Flow & Ore Dilution in Sublevel Cave Mining; State-of-the-Art Review

    By Ayman Tawadrous

    Cave mining offers a flexible technique to exploit large, low grade, deep ore bodies with low operating costs. It is typically done in either a top down approach; i.e. sublevel caving, or in a bottom

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    Economic and safety benefits of StratablastTM for steeply dipping coal seams - a case study

    By Tapan Goswami, Brent Geoff

    Mining multiple steeply sloping coal seams introduces challenges in terms of safety and productivity. Work on steeply sloping surfaces for the processes of bench preparation, mark-out, drilling, loadi

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    Blasting Effects of a Non-Pressure Liquid Tank Task 662

    By David S. Shatzer, Michael R. Purcell

    Current world events have demonstrated the use of commercial vehicles, other unconventional modes of transportation and unusual materials as explosives or incendiary weapons, affecting commerce, disru

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    Valdez, Alaska Glacier Point Quarry – One Shot / One Chance for Success

    By Billy Rosseau, Mike Cammack, Richard O’Meara, Gustavo Azpilcueta

    During the summer of 2014, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) sought proposals to vastly improve and expand the small boat harbor in Valdez, Alaska. It would be a multi-year project, and constru

    Jan 1, 2017