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  • ISEE
    Alternative Ways to Insure Risk

    By Inc. The HDH Group

    The Alternative Risk Market is defined as the segment of the insurance market that is made up of self insurance, risk purchasing groups, risk retention groups and captives. It is commonly referred to

    Jan 1, 2007

  • ISEE
    Blasting Near Buried Pipelines: A Gas Company Prospective

    By Frederick R. Cosgrave

    Blasting near buried Natural Gas pipelines has always been an area of great concern. Given the many variables that the blaster must contend with in determining how to break the rock while trying to ke

    Jan 1, 1995

  • ISEE
    Burden Velocity Measurement in Cast Blasting Operations at Mount Thorley Mine Using POWERWAVE Face Velocity Radar

    By A T. Spathis, J J. Felice, W Klass

    Cast blasting has become one of the most efficient ways to move waste rock in open cut coal mining. It is used at Mount Thorley Mine in conjunction with a dragline to move some of the overburden onto

    Jan 1, 1992

  • ISEE
    Presplitting Techniques with Large Diameter Blastholes in Western Coal

    By John J. Barnes

    The advent of more powerful explosives, increased bench heights, and larger diameter blastholes has necessitated the use of presplitting techniques in sub-bituminous coal mines. The combination of the

    Jan 1, 1988

  • ISEE
    Blast Vibration Effects Upon a Deep Injection Well and the Reduction of Ground Vibration Over Depth

    By Jeffrey A. Straw, Joseph P. Jr Shinko

    Ground vibration produced by blasting operations within South Florida, due to saturated soil conditions, generates surface vibration waves that may be measurable over distances of 3 - 5 miles from the

    Jan 1, 1994

  • ISEE
    The Effect of Shock and Gas Energies on Rock Fracturing Process

    "In order to increase control over blasting, it is important to identify the imperative mechanismsand to quantify their participation during the rock fracturing process. The useful energyreleased by t

    Jan 1, 1999

  • ISEE
    Blast Vibration Analysis by a Time Series Technique

    By Francis O. Otuonye

    An application of a time series and systems analysis modeling technique to blast vibration data is discussed. The vibration data was taken from a rock support structure and the surrounding rock mass a

    Jan 1, 1994

  • ISEE
    Application of Crater Theory in Explosives Casting Design

    By T Guiliani, F Ottuonye

    Explosives casting is gaining increasing popularity as an overburden removal method in strip mining because the coats of using explosives to cast a percentage of the overburden to the spoil are lower

    Jan 1, 1989

  • ISEE
    The Use of High Density Ammonium Nitrate Mini-Prill Blasting Agents to Reduce Drilling and Blasting Costs

    By John C. Adams, Robin Irwin

    In early 1993 a test program was designed to determine if mining costs could be reduced by using a high density ammonium nitrate mini-prill blasting agent. The goal was to reduce mining costs by expan

    Jan 1, 1994

  • ISEE
    Predicting the Envelope of Damage Resulting from the Detonation of a Confined Charge (f7227bf9-6568-4211-b2c2-9f028c1f10ec)

    By T Michael LeBlanc

    Drill trajectory deviation is a recurring problem in vertical retreat stoping operations. As a result of this deviation, 60 kilogram (165 millimetre diameter) and 103 kilogram (302 millimetre diameter

    Jan 1, 1996

  • ISEE
    Explosives Sculpt at Crazy Horse

    By Paul Muehl, Roger Lawrence

    The massive sculpture taking place on Crazy Horse Mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota, may Be the most unique application of precision blasting techniques in the world today, It is certainly t

    Jan 1, 1991

  • ISEE
    A Radio Frequency Hazard Assessment Probe Circuit

    By Florian B. Janoski

    The annual consumption of electric blasting caps in the United States approaches 100,000,000, so, over the last eleven to twelve years about one billion have been used. The author has made hazard asse

    Jan 1, 1977

  • ISEE
    Compaction of Salt by Means of Explosives

    By Harnish Miller, Scott G. Giltner

    One of the concerns with locating radioactive waste storage sites in salt deposits is how to permanently seal the underground storage areas once they have reached their storage capacity. The compactio

    Jan 1, 1996

  • ISEE
    Mixed Results in Choke Blasting

    By J Paul Tidman, Stephen H. Chung

    One of the requirements in open pit gold mines is to minimise the mixing of ore and waste. Dilution can be reduced by choke blasting and control of the initiating sequencing. The authors have used the

    Jan 1, 1997

  • ISEE
    The Design, Implementation and Optimization of Casting Blasts in Strip Mining

    This paper describes experience in designing and implementing casting blasts over the past fifteen years. Important design parameters such as powder factor, burden and spacing, blast pattern geometry,

    Jan 1, 1995

  • ISEE
    High Precision Cap Accuracy - An Independent Study

    By Calvin J. Konya

    There have been many different brands of high precision caps introduced on the US market in the last five years. High precision timing definitely effects the performance of the blast. One should be ab

    Jan 1, 1989

  • ISEE
    The Concept of Explosives Malfunctioning in Rock Blasting

    By Quian Liu

    The problem of cross-hole explosive malfunctioning in rock blasting (including sympathetic detonation, desensitization and cut-offs) is a function of delay and spacing in a blast which should be desig

    Jan 1, 1994

  • ISEE
    Blast Vibration Measurements at Far Distances and Design Influences on Ground Vibrations

    By Kenneth Eltschlager, Steven V. Crum, David E. Siskind

    The Bureau of Mines was funded by the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) to determine how blast vibrations from a local surface coal mine were affecting homes in the towns of Daylight and McCutchanville,

    Jan 1, 1992

  • ISEE
    Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOCC) Blast Optimization with Emulsion Explosives

    By M Lemieux, R Mason

    The SABREX blast modeling program was introduced to I.O.C.C.'s Carol Lake Iron Ore Project in December 1987. As part of CIL's Technical Services, SABREX was used to implement an optimization program d

    Jan 1, 1989

  • ISEE
    Precision-Scale High-Explosive Water Shock Experiments

    By Charles E. Joachim, Christo V. Lunderman, Charles R. Wdch

    The U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES) recently conducted a series of precision-scale water shock experiments which consisted of the detonation of several 8-gram, 10-gram, and 12-gr

    Jan 1, 1998