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  • ISEE
    Journal: Lightning - Understanding the Danger, Managing the Risk.

    By Greg Quinn

    After a long week of work in Colorado Springs this past July, I was looking forward to flying home to start a long anticipated family vacation. As I grabbed my seat on the plane, a man sitting next to

    Jan 1, 2012

  • ISEE
    Shotrock Fragmentation Improve in Complex Lithology Condition

    By M. Syafiq Isnaya, Rahma Norfaeda, Slamet Rachman Jaka

    This paper is about project improvement to maximize energy distribution while ensuring beneficial blast results (reduce boulder condition). The main problem is how to manage complex lithology conditio

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Kelly Bar Loading

    By C F. Argo

    In the past several years the "Kelly Bar", an innovative device, which incorporates borehole d-rifling and explosives loading into a single detail, has come under scrutiny and criticism. The practical

    Jan 1, 1975

  • ISEE
    Blast Fume Management

    By Alan B. Richards, Aleks Todoroski

    The undesirable effects of blasting fumes can be controlled by minimising the amount of fume created, and by avoiding the movement of the fume plume to sensitive locations. Substantial progress has be

    Jan 1, 2017

  • ISEE
    World's Longest Highway-Tunnel Tests 'Site Sensitized Emulsion'

    By Bjoern R. Petterson, Lars Haakon Siem

    The world's longest highway-tunnel -- the Aurland Tunnel in western Norway -- is scheduled to be opened in the year 2000. A project to build a main highway between Oslo and Bergen with no ferry connec

    Jan 1, 1996

  • ISEE
    Utilizing Structured Public Involvement in Community Meetings around Blasting Operations

    By Joshua Micah Hoffman

    While it is easy to state that meaningful involvement of the community can play a critical role for a successful blasting operation, following through with this involvement is not an easy task. Struct

    Jan 1, 2014

  • ISEE
    PIBSA-based Emulsifier for Low Quality Ammonium Nitrate Emulsion Explosives

    By Julia Creasey, Natalie Hodgson, Claire Ward, Craig Davies, Helen Sarginson

    "Emulsion explosive producers are attempting to lower the cost of emulsion production by using lowquality ammonium nitrate in emulsion formulations. Low quality ammonium nitrate contains additivessuch

    Jan 1, 2017

  • ISEE
    A Consumer's Guide to Bulk Emulsions and Emulsion/ANFO Blends

    By Catharine L. VanOmmeren

    Emulsion quality characteristics such as shelf life, handling, and sensitivity are critical to the end-user. It is therefore important that the consumer be prepared to ask his supplier specific questi

    Jan 1, 1989

  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    The Improvement in Fragmentation of the Hardest Jaspilite Lithology

    By Carlos Campos Junior, Leonardo Soares Chaves, Raul Carretero Hoz, Renato Jacome Costa, Davi Bastos Martins de Oliveira

    The Vale’s Serra Sul mine, also known as S11D project, is one of the world’s largest open pit iron ore mines, located in Brazil’s Amazon region. The mine produces around 90 Mt of high-quality iron ore

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Relationships between Pipe stress, Ground Particle Velocity and Scale Factors in Blasting Dolomite

    By Dennis Alan Clark

    An increase in construction and quarry operations has necessitated blasting activities in areas once considered rural and in the close proximity of transmission pipelines. A method to determine the ma

    Jan 1, 1976

  • ISEE
    Attenuation of Blasting Vibrations in South Florida, Part II

    By Greg Mclellan, Mark Johnson, John Pepper

    In this paper, the measured vibrations are plotted in terms of the individual PPV components versus Scaled Distance (SD) on logarithmic scales. The maximum PPV is pIotted on a separate graph and equat

    Jan 1, 2001

  • ISEE
    Observation of Flyrock at Several Mines and Quarries

    By John W. Kopp

    The U. S. Bureau of Mines investigated flyrock and burden movement from blasting at several limestone and basalt quarries in the upper midwest. Blasts have been studied at 14 different sites using hig

    Jan 1, 1994

  • ISEE
    Blasting Related Aggregate Size Optimization

    By John Cory, Ran Tamir

    Blasting data analytics are being increasing used to increase mining productivity, reduce mining costs, maximize high margin aggregate products, and to reduce fines. Three examples will be illustrated

    Jan 1, 2012

  • ISEE
    ICI's Computer Blasting Model SABREX - Field Calibration and Applications

    By G G. Paine, C V. B Cunningham, G Harries

    The companies of the ICI Explosives Group have successfully used a wide variety of internal computer codes including BOBCAT, KUZ-RAM, ICRAX, XPLODE, BLEND, 3CRACK, MICBLAST, DETON, etc. In recent year

    Jan 1, 1987

  • ISEE
    Impact of the Mine to Plant Methodology on the Global Profitability of the Mining Industry

    By Ronald Ticona

    Generally, the drilling and blasting operation are managed independently to the processing plant outcomes. Therefore, the technical segmentation to determinate the ore drill and blast designs do not i

    Feb 6, 2023

  • ISEE
    Controlled Excavation at the Trans-Koolau Halawa Tunnels

    By Ken Fiorentino, Gordon F. Revey

    H3 Tunnelers recently excavated two conventional 48 foot diameter highway tunnels through the Halawa side of the Tran-Koolau Mountains on Oahu. The primary blast design challenge on this Job was minim

    Jan 1, 1993

  • ISEE
    Improved Techniques for Reactive Ground, Density and Performance Testing of Bulk Explosives

    By Italo Onederra, Gary Cavanough, Ewan Sellers

    Reactivity of ammonium nitrate based explosives is associated with the presence of iron sulfides in the ground reacting with explosive products and in some instances causing spontaneous reactions whic

    Jan 1, 2018

  • ISEE
    Guidelines for Handling and Documenting Blasting Complaints

    By Robert L. Brooks

    Blasting liability problems are frequently compounded by a company's inability to effectively communicate with concerned property owners and the lack of adequate complaint documentation. Often, by the

    Jan 1, 1992

  • ISEE
    Commercial Detonators: a Review of Methods Used. Past and Present. To Compare Their Strengths

    By Robert B. Hopler

    This paper reviews, from the historical standpoint, the development of the commonly-used terms such as "No. 6 and No. 8" with regard to detonator strengths. The origin of the strength terminology is r

    Jan 1, 1992