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  • ISEE
    Simulations of Full-scale Bench Blasts using FDM (Fracture Density Model)

    By Dale S. Preece

    A new three dimensional (3D) mechanistic model of fragmentation, called the Fracture Density Model (FDM) is used to simulate full-scale bench blasts at the Bararp dimensional stone quarry in Sweden. T

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Safe Blasting Parameters And Seismic Influences During Construction Blasting

    By Mario Dobrilovic, Zvonimir Ester, Vinko Skrlec, Vjecislav Bohanek

    The first public garage in the city of Dubrovnik has been built in highly urbanized area, on location Ilina Glavica. The excavation of the building pit has been done partly by construction machinery,

    Jan 1, 2009

  • ISEE
    Detailed Planning Underscores Expansion of Vulcan's Chattanooga Quarry

    By R L. Mayville

    The author explains why the strategic location and important limestone reserves at Chattanooga Quarry led to a decision to extend operating life by continued benching down to lower levels. He discusse

    Jan 1, 1984

  • ISEE
    The Influence of Blast Fragmentation on Loadability in Sublevel Caving

    By Daniel Johansson, Markus Danielsson, Håkan Schunnesson

    In sublevel caving, blasted material flows gravitationally into the drawpoint from above in a periodical manner. This type of flow behavior entails muck pile conditions that are variable along the cou

    Jan 1, 2018

  • ISEE
    Minimising Coal Damage and Loss Due to Cast Blasting

    By Tapan Goswami

    The main objective of the blasting phase in a coal mining operation is to maximise the coal recovery. However, coal loss due to blasting is a serious problem. The Australian Coal Association Research

  • ISEE
    Minimising Coal Damage and Loss Due to Cast Blasting

    By Tapan Goswami

    This paper discusses the importance of coal mapping, the rock properties of the roof and floor interface of the coal seam, and the significance of loading and initiating designs in minimising coal dam

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Blast Optimization and Vibration Control at a Multi-Seam Coal Mine, Brazil

    By Enrique Munaretti, Vitor Rosenhaim, Jair Carlos Koppe, Joao Francisco Feijo

    The B3 mine is a multiple coal seam strip mining in operation in Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in Brazil. A traditional truck & excavator operation is used to remove the overburden and sel

    Jan 1, 2012

  • ISEE
    A New Method of Reactive Ground Testing

    By Gary Cavanough

    The spontaneous exothermic reaction of ammonium nitrate explosives with sulphide-containing rocks, commonly referred to as reactive ground, is a site-specific condition that can lead to spontaneous de

    Feb 6, 2023

  • ISEE
    Improved Remediation Performance of a Contaminated Basalt Aquifer by Blast Fracturing

    By Adrian Moore, Bryan Goodwin, David Fales, David Lam

    This paper describes the development of blasting protocols used to successfully create a 450m long blast fractured permeable trench in a basalt aquifer up to 20m thick, at a petrochemical facility in

    Jan 1, 2011

  • ISEE
    Precision Delay Detonators: A Decade of Progress

    By M. Y. Wong

    Electronic detonators have been used on a trial basis for over a decade, and found more recent application in production blasting as well. The relative merits of these detonators and their applicabili

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    Advance Blasting using Drone Mapping and AI for Comprehensive Blast Performance Analysis

    By Dr. Anurag Agrawal, Fathur Rozaq, Nella Lubis, Relinda Sanistya, Herry Saputra, Rudolf Sitorus

    In mining operations, basic drone applications such as pre- and post-blast photo comparisons, blast video recordings, and sample-based fragmentation analysis are often used to assess blast performance

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Explosion Hazards and Quantity-Distance Regulations – A Review of their Physical Basis

    Currently there exist several explosive quantity-distance (Q-D) rules variously exercised by most countries to protect personnel and property against the effects of accidental explosions. These regula

    Jan 1, 2011

  • 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
    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
    Crack Displacement and Vibration Measurement of an Underground Portal

    By Douglas Rudenko PG, Jay Elkin, Siavash Mahvelati Ph. D.

    Very little studies have investigated the behavior of cracks in unlined tunnels over long periods of time, especially when such flaws are subjected to blast-induced vibrations. Using a pool of 30+ bla

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Modern Underground Raise and Slot Design

    By N. Rouse

    Underground raises and slots are a vital part of underground blasting operations. Raises and slots are vertical shafts or openings used for ventilation, ore passes, or creating voids in stopes. In the

    Jan 1, 2024

  • 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
    The Effects of Various Wet-Hole Loading Methods on Powder Factor

    By Neal Lee

    Often the effects of wet boreholes are not taken into consideration when designing a blasting program to exhibit a certain amount of explosive energy per unit of rock such as design by powder factor,

    Jan 1, 2011

  • ISEE
    Effect of Geology and Mechanical Properties of Rock on Blast Results

    By Ph. D. Favreau, Favreau Patrice B. Eng, R. F.

    Geology is important in mining by helping to identify the rocks which contain sufficient valuable ore to justify their excavation. Geologists give a geological name to each rock type, so geology is a

    Jan 1, 2019

  • 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