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Field Monitoring of Loading Properties for Gassed Bulk Emulson
By Yang Ruilin
Bulk gassing technology is a growing trend in the commercial explosive industry. The gassed bulk products produced differ from microballooned bulk products or cartridged products. It is easy to know t
Jan 1, 1999
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Ammonium Nitrate Blasting Agents Quality Testing for Maximum Benefit
By Philip H. Porter
Ammonium nitrate blasting agents continue to be the work-horse of the explosives industry. The versatile, low-cost, anfo products, whether packaged, poured, or bulk, continue to produce superior resul
Jan 1, 1984
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New Development of Gassed Emulsion Explosive for Cost Optimization and Environmental Control
By Yessica Idrogo, Omar Gómez, Francisco Pérez, Eduardo Yrigoyen
Rock blasting is one of the most important operations in the mining cycle value chain, requiring optimized explosives mixtures to get good results. A new and better strategy, and that which is discuss
Jan 1, 2019
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Preparing for Blast Damage Litigation Through Accurate Record Documentation
By Keith Pucalik
One of the more important duties of the vibration consultant is to evaluate allegations of blasting damage by neighboring property owners. Unfortunately, the consultant is generally faced with having
Jan 1, 1990
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Potential Limits for Regulation of Environmental Effects of Blasting
By Gerald R. Coonan
Early in the open session of the 1979 SEE Fifth Conference panel discussion, someone asked a question of the panel concerning the future intent of the Office of Surface Mining and the regulatory limit
Jan 1, 1979
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Blasting with a Light Touch; Florida State Project 12014-3501 Fort Myers, Florida (307cb8ee-5b0c-48e5-806c-57d316a0ab82)
By Doug Wathen, Philip M. E Thomas
The City of Fort Myers needed to replace a 40-year old 42-inch storm sewer line in downtown Fort Myers with a new 54-inch line to accommodate population growth. The old line had to be kept operational
Jan 1, 1996
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Survival Guide For The Blaster in the 1990's
By John W. Brown
During the summer of 1994 the mining industry experienced numerous accidents involving blasting related incidents. The Tri-State Chapter of Explosives Engineers planned a meeting to discuss three of t
Jan 1, 1995
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Stemming Technique for Loading Angled Holes Charged with ANFO
By Michael David Wilkins, Paul N. Worsey
Little research has been published on stemming blast holes, particularly what happens during the process. Previous work has concentrated on the performance of the inert material to find the best way t
Jan 1, 1998
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A Static Model for Rock Splitting Design With Explosive
By R Mancini
Explosive charge action on the medium is intrinsically dynamic (fast rising and fast vanishing). On the contrary, information available on rock strength is drawn from static behaviour, and it's common
Jan 1, 1995
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Considerations for Drill and Blast Excavation of a Geologic Repository for the Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Nuclear Waste at Yucca Mountain
By Norman Kramer, Roger Keller
The authors would like to thank Austin Powder Company for their technical support and input, specifically Stephen Harris, Jason Ryan, and John Capers of Austin Powder, without whose support this paper
Jan 1, 2000
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Predicting Vibration Through Linear-Regression Modelling
By Anthony Konya, Calvin J. Konya
The publication, RI8507, from the U.S. Bureau of Mines established an envelope equation that related scaled-distance to peak particle velocity in an attempt to predict ground vibration in the design p
Jan 1, 2018
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Selection and Use of Explosives for Blasting in Permafrost
By Anatoliy Yegupov, Vladimir I. Samoylov, Alexandr V. Startshinov
Access difficulties and unique climatic and geotechnical conditions of mineral deposits in permafrost in the Russian Northeast require specific approaches in the selection and use of explosives.
Jan 1, 1992
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Blast Assessment and Optimization for High Quarry Face - Blasting
By Frank Sames
Where applicable, high production benches can improve efficiency in quarrying. Quality control, geological, cost or other considerations might result in the development of quarry benches higher than 3
Jan 1, 1996
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Efficient Use of Explosives for Casing Advancement while Drilling
By Vaughn Bowns, Allen Stanley, Brian Redeker
"Running casing in drilling operations is often complicated by boulders or large cobbles.Past practices of dealing with these have included use of drop hammers, attempts to drillthrough or around the
Jan 1, 1993
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Drilling and Blasting Practices
By Thomas P. Mahoney
Phelps Dodge Corporation's Tyrone Mine is a large open pit copper operation located in the southwestern corner of New Mexico. The Tyrone concentrator processes approximately 50,000 tons per day of cop
Jan 1, 1986
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Technical Review of Safe Blasting Design at Limited Distance
By Agus Setiabudi
East Pit Wira II Project in South Kalimantan, Indonesia with a radius of <500 meters (1,640 ft) from residential has about 454,168 tonnes of coal reserves, with a total remaining reserves of 3,369,383
Jan 1, 2014
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Optimized Blasting Methods for TBM Launching Shaft Construction Beneath the Panama Canal: A Case Study
By Jose Pineda, Abraham Lindo
The Panama Metro System’s Network expansion involves excavating a launching shaft for a tunnel boring machine (TBM) to traverse beneath the Panama Canal. The blasting needed for this shaft constructio
Jan 21, 2025
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Analysis of Recent Mine Blasting Accidents
By Larry R. Fletcher
The Bureau of Mines obtained blasting accident data from the Mine Safety ant Health Administration (MSHA), U. S. Department of Labor. These data were analyzed to determine the most frequent causes of
Jan 1, 1983
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Dimension Stone Shooting with Low Strength High Explosives
By Stephen P. Case, Stephen Castellucci, William Parsons
In this paper, the authors present a step-by-step discussion of dimension stone production at a New England granite quarry. The quarry mines a rare pink granite which is used for facings and panels in
Jan 1, 1990
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Staggered Parallel Cut in Small Headings the Most Cost-Reducing Alternative to All Other Cuts in Mechanized Drifting
By Max Pena Woolcott, Winfried Rosenstock, Maria Chappuis, Walther Hennig
"In a Peruvian-German Technical Cooperation project for the Mining Sector the ""Milpo-cut"" along with the electric initiation system has been successfully implemented in a Peruvian metal-ore mine.Spe
Jan 1, 1994