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  • ISEE
    Optimization and Precision in Mining, The Simfrag Model

    By Jorge Cárdenas, Alejandro Luna

    In mining simulation for fragmentation results prediction is of utmost importance to study feasibility, ensure safety, and estimate the correct use of resources in drilling an explosive to meet requir

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Blasting Claims 101: An Introduction to the Defense of Claims

    By Joshua A. Bennett

    "Lawsuits where owners allege their property has been damaged by nearby blasting routinely costblasting companies, explosives engineers, and others in the field both time and money. When ownersfeel th

    Jan 1, 2016

  • ISEE
    Portable, Multi-Channel and Continuous Velocity of Detonation Recorders (122b6f71-61a6-4f23-afba-c5878df1df8c)

    By Jackson R. Pressley, Bruce Vandenberg

    The knowledge of how and when your explosives go off can help you make intelligent decisions regarding future application of explosives thus removing some of the black magic associated with blasting.

    Jan 1, 1992

  • ISEE
    Direct Stress Monitoring of Pipelines and Development of Limitations – A Case Study

    By Travis Davidsavor, David Provost

    A segment of high-pressure steel petroleum pipeline needed to be replaced on a hillside and beneath a waterway within an existing right-of-way containing multiple petroleum pipelines. The pipeline rep

  • ISEE
    Study of Blasting Produced Air Overpressure in Urban Area

    By Zou Dingxiang

    Rock blasting in the project of “Site Formation and Associated Infrastructure Works at Choi Wan Road and Jordan Valley” is the largest urban blasting project in the history of Hong Kong and also is ra

    Jan 1, 2007

  • ISEE
    Data Flow Through the Blasting Process

    By Christoph Muller, Geoffrey Liggins, Mohan Hensman

    Modern commercial blasting is as much a technical process as it is a business one. As with most processes both aspects of blasting are driven by and generate new data. The time-critical nature of comm

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    Blast Vibration and Seismograph Section - Wintertime Seismograph Set-Up Blues

    By Bobby Dupree

    I remember a big problem with a seismograph in the winter two years ago. In response to a citizen’s complaint I placed a transducer near the corner of a two-story home. It was a pretty nice day for th

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    Journal: Hazmat 101 / PART 4 – Cargo Segregation and Securement

    By Tom Snyder, John Brulia

    Part 4 is the final article by the authors on hazardous materials (HM)transportation safety and compliance for U.S. shippers and carriers who offer and transport commercial explosives in commerce on p

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    Direct Stress Monitoring of Pipelines and Development of Limitations – A Case Study

    By Travis A. Davidsavor, David A. Provost

    A segment of high-pressure steel petroleum pipeline needed to be replaced on a hillside and beneath a waterway within an existing right-of-way containing multiple petroleum pipelines. The pipeline rep

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Controlled Underwater Blasting in Santos Port, Brazil

    By Paulo José Costa Couceiro Junior, Manuel Lopez Cano

    The biggest Port of Latin America - the Santos Port in São Paulo, Brazil - has been drilled and blasted by controlled underwater techniques in order to remove around 40,000 m3 (52,318 cubic yard) of r

    Jan 1, 2016

  • ISEE
    Improvement on the Fragmentation Results for Effect of the Reflective Planning Generated by the Pre-Split.

    By Jorge Cárdenas Miranda, Hector Espinoza

    Currently in open pit mining in Peru with double bench, it is a challenge to optimize fragmentation in the drill rows near to the slopes to ensure the performance in the loading and haulage operation

    Feb 6, 2023

  • ISEE
    Predicting the Envelope of Damage Resulting from the Detonation of a Confined Charge (aa576ad1-736a-4e7e-9977-8fe1a93c21b3)

    By Jason M. Ryan, T Michael LeBlanc, John H. Heiiig

    Drill trajectory deviation is a recurring problem in the Mining Industry retreat stoping operations. As a result of this deviation, it is quite concevable that 60 kg (165 mm 0) and 103 kg (203 mm 0) e

    Jan 1, 1995

  • 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 ha

    Jan 1, 1996

  • 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
    Investigative Blast Programme for Chek Lap Kok

    By Alastair Torrance, George Boucher

    The authors were involved in the Trial Blast work at Chek Lap Kok, the site of the new Hong Kong Airport. As part of that work a series of computer programs including 3x30, QFRAG, DESIGNER and 3DMUCK

    Jan 1, 1994

  • ISEE
    Soil Cap Density Distributions Resulting from Buried Explosions in Saturdated Sand

    By L C. Taylor, H U. Lesiste

    This paper describes a method for estimating the density distribution in the soil cap as a function of distance from its top at the time of impact with the target. It provides an estimate of the densi

    Jan 1, 2011

  • ISEE
    The SMI, New Easy-To-Use Electronic Initiation System

    By Peter Duniam, Stephen John Brace

    2000 HIGH-TECH SEMINAR Blasting Technology, Instrumentation and Explosives Applications Orlando,Florida,USA July24-27,200O. Objectives:- After completing this session 1. Explain safety issues 2. Do si

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Innovations in Presplit Design and Highwall Control Blasting Techniques for Deep Open Pit Coal Mines

    By Richard E. Danell

    "There are a variety of approaches for wall control blasting in open pit mining operations. Safety forworking in the pit is the principal benefit. There are also a number of economic and productivityb

    Jan 1, 1997

  • ISEE
    Blasting in The New Millennium - Misfires The Basics Never Change

    By Steve Dillingham

    Whenever misfired holes or portions of misfired holes remain after a blast is fired, a hazardous situation exists until the unfired explosive materials have been disposed of properly. Yet, there are s

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    Blast Vibration and Seismograph Section - Location, Location, Location

    By Kenneth Eltschlager

    Business says that location is a primary component of being successful. So too is the importance of location in blasting. For blast seismograph data to be useful, the location of the blast and seismog

    Jan 1, 2004