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  • ISEE
    Potential Applications of Ultra High Intensity Blasting, UHIB

    By Egonk Arriagada, Jair Alarcon

    The efficient use of energy in the ore comminution process is an increasingly important strategic issue for improving the productivity and competitiveness in the mining industry as is in recent years

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    Rock Drilling Safety - Bench Top Cleaning Versus Blasted Rock Debris Drilling

    By Amund Bruland, Vegard Olsen

    This paper presents analytical assessments around unintended misfire detonation, within rock debris drilling and bench top cleaning, primarily in the quarrying and mining industry. The main purpose of

    Jan 1, 2008

  • ISEE
    The Fundamentals of a Good Electronic Initiation System Program

    By Thomas Barkley

    Until the recent past, blasters have provided good to excellent results with tools and processes that have an inherent error. These errors can be found in drilling, explosives delivery quality and con

    Jan 1, 2011

  • ISEE
    Explosive-Driven Power Generation Research at the University of Missouri-Rolla

    By P. N. Worsey, M. Schmidt

    Many advanced military systems and civilian power generation concepts postulate the availability of compact sources of electrical power capable of delivering gigawatts over microsecond time scales. Fo

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Auditing Underground Development Drilling and Blasting

    By Thomas L. Barkley

    My historic auditing of Underground Drilling and Blasting Practices has demonstrated to the author the need for reviews of many mines' procedures in these processes. Poor understanding of the basic pr

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    Dynamic Response of Buried Oil Pipeline Caused by Tunneling Blasting

    By Zheng Shuangying

    The vibration effect of the buried oil pipeline caused by tunneling blasting affects the pipeline safe transportation, tunnel construction schedule and its construction cost. The dynamic response char

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    Surplus Military Propellants as Ingredients in Commercial Explosives

    By Kevin Tallent

    The use of military-type energetic materials in commercial explosive products is not a new concept. In the United States, the techniques for utilizing significant quantities of surplus military explos

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Blast Noise Annoys

    By David E. Siskind

    Increased mineral consumption and environmental concern have caused much interest in potential damage and annoyance from ground vibration and airblast produced by production blasting in surface mines

    Jan 1, 1977

  • ISEE
    Urban Tunneling for the MWRA's Boston Harbor Clean Up

    By Gordon C. Petersen, Gary A. Almeraris

    This paper describes the controlled blasting techniques required to mine a rock tunnel section of a main interceptor located in the Boston Metropolitan area. The 3m (10 ft) x 2.8m (9.25 ft) horseshoe

    Jan 1, 1991

  • ISEE
    Rock Removal Techniques and Equipment in Trench Excavation and Pipeline Construction. A Comparison

    By Benedict C. Di Duca

    In the underground construction industry. when bidding work, not only is the contractor faced with determining if rock: is in existence within the parameters of his work. he must also estimate the qua

    Jan 1, 1990

  • ISEE
    Process Intensification of Emulsion Manufacture

    By Shuli Teng, Vladimir Sujansky, Matthew Rawls, Ivan Junarsa

    In recent years significant advances have been made in chemical processing technology. In particular, process intensification using micro-technology has had some success in changing and improving chem

    Jan 1, 2014

  • ISEE
    Wall Control at the Freeport Grasberg Opencut Mine: Vibration and Gas Penetration Measurements as a Precursor to Improvements

    By A. Spathis, I. Yacob, A. Labriola, G. Smith

    Wall control is a significant issue for many mines. Improvements to the design process for blasts adjacent to temporary or final walls will require better measurement tools and predictive models. Oric

    Jan 1, 2001

  • ISEE
    Seismic Monitoring During Blastings of Building Pit for WTC at Rijeka

    By D Vrkljan, Z Ester

    Excavating the building pit for the World Trade Center at Rijeka, it was necessary to blast over 160000 m3 of hard mass in fused condition. The building pit is located at a densely populated residenti

    Jan 1, 1999

  • ISEE
    Surgical Blasting for Paleontological Evidence, Dominion Range, Antarctica

    By Quentin L. Rhoton

    "The use of explosives in a surgical manner was approved to facilitate, due to time constraints, anextremely significant paleontological find in the Plunket Point area of the Dominion Range, Antarctic

    Jan 1, 1999

  • ISEE
    Diamonds are a Driller's Best Friend

    By Langdon T. Mitchell, Karl Ingmarsson

    The title is not referring to jewelry; nor is it about diamond core drilling. This article is instead about an emerging application for diamonds, hard rock percussive drilling with diamond drill bits.

    Jan 1, 1999

  • ISEE
    Assessment of the Relative Efficiency of Two Stemming Materials

    By Tapan Goswami

    A column of stemming material keeps explosion gases at high pressure for longer times in a blasthole. In general, use of appropriate stemming enables the achievement of the desired level of fragmentat

    Jan 1, 2000

  • 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
    Analysis of Sympathetic Detonation in Detonating Cord

    By Josh Calnan, Paul M. Holmgren, Abigail N. Styer

    Detonating cord is a staple of the explosives industry, used widely in the civil and defense industries. Detonating cord is a thin, flexible plastic tube filled with pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN

    Feb 1, 2020

  • 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
    Drone Technology Utilization to Increase Safety and Support Analysis for Blasting Process

    By Ery Wardhana, Stefanus Jagad, Relinda Sanistya, Hasucita Tausi, Rido Situmorang

    The blasting process is one of the most high-risk activities in mining operations. Shotfirers and blasting crews face hazards from slope failure, toxic gas and fumes, or unstable ground condition ever

    Feb 6, 2023