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  • ISEE
    Exclusion Zone Optimization: Application of New Digital Technologies Allowing Ore Production

    By Jair Alarcón, Lucas Steffen, Leopoldo Muñoz

    Flyrock is one of the most significant hazards associated with blasting in open pit mining, especially for blasting operations near communities. Flyrock can lead to severe injuries, fatalities, and pr

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Coupled Rock Motion and Gas Flow Modeling in Blasting

    By Steven D. Knudsen, Dale S. Preece

    The spherical element computer code DMC (Distinct Motion Code) used to model rock motion resulting from blasting has been enhanced to allow routine computer simulations of bench blasting. The enhancem

    Jan 1, 1992

  • ISEE
    Important Considerations When Selecting Rotary Blasthole Drills for High Altitude Use

    By Lyall Workman

    New mines are frequently located at altitudes above 3,000 meters (10,000 ft.). Drill selection must take the altitude effects into account, to insure high productivity and good bit life. In particular

    Jan 1, 2007

  • ISEE
    Challenges Related to Near-Field Blasting between Critical Interstate and Railroad Infrastructure

    By Luiz Felipe Mendonça de Amorim, Adimir Fernando Rezende, Gustavo Sampaio Lopes, Claudio Cesar Gajardo Arraño, Eltton de Sousa Veras, Manuel Villalobos Calderon

    Many technical challenges were encountered while conducting near-field construction blasting between the critical intersection of Interstate 10 and multiple active railroad tracks in El Paso, Texas, f

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    Surplus Military Propellants as Ingredients in Commercial Explosives

    By Kevin Tallent

    The use of military-type energetic materials in commercial explosive products is not a new concept. In the United States, the techniques for utilizing significant quantities of surplus military explos

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Electromagnetic Characterization of an Explosives Mixing Site at Blackie, Alberta

    By David G. Paton

    "Electromagnetic surveys were conducted at the BXL Bulk Explosives Limited Mixing Plant andsurrounding area to characterize runoff from the site and possible impacts of salinity. The BXL Plant is loca

    Jan 1, 1999

  • ISEE
    The Use of Numerical Modeling to Enhance Fines Predictions

    By A. S. Tawadrous

    Fines are produced in any blasting application. Depending on the application, fines may or may not be a desirable product of the blast. In most quarry and construction applications, fines are consider

    Jan 1, 2012

  • ISEE
    Detection of Geological Features using Aerial Image Analysis and Machine Learning

    By Ravi Sahu, Ankit Jha, Sudarshan Rajagopal, Purushotham Tukkaraja

    Geologic structures are one of the crucial parameters in blast design. Structural geology and rock properties influence drilling patterns, blast layout, and initiation systems. A comprehensive underst

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    The 8 Millisecond Rule is Dead – Or Is It?

    By Daniel Richards, Dr Rob Farnfield, Dr Geoff Adderley

    The 8-millisecond rule has been in use for many years as a basic technique to help minimize vibration levels from surface blasting operations. The rule was based on work carried out in the 1960’s by t

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Testing of a New Blasting Mat Constructed Using Rubber Tractor Treads

    By Matthew K. Coy, Paul N. Worsey

    The work described in this paper comprised the master’s thesis work of the primary author and was conducted at the Missouri S&T experimental mine. The objective was to determine if rubber tractor trea

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    A Comprehensive Blast Damage Control Plan for The Missing Link

    By Alvin D. Christmas

    The missing link is a connector between the congested downtown area of Knoxville, Tennessee adjacent to the former World's Fair site, the I_40 I_75, and Western Avenue traffic arteries. This connecter

    Jan 1, 1995

  • ISEE
    Vibration Control During the Construction of an In-Pit Lime Kiln

    By Paul Worsey, Ron Ecklecamp, Scott G. Giltner, Ronnie Inman, Terry Drechsler

    A blast monitoring program conducted at Chemical Lie Company’s new lime calcining facility near Ste. Genevieve, Missouri is discussed. The purpose was to develop blasting criteria for the construction

    Jan 1, 1996

  • ISEE
    A New Approach to Predict and Reduce Blast Vibrations by Modelling of Seismograms and Using a New Electronic Initiation System

    By R Ludeling, Klaus G. Hinzen, Ulrich Steiner, Friedrich Heinemeyer, Peter Roh

    A method for hybrid modelling of blast vibrations in time domain is developed. Field seismograms of single shot experiments are combined with computer simulations. In this way firing times of blasthol

    Jan 1, 1987

  • ISEE
    Summer Internship Project at an Underground Gold Mine

    By Tristan Worsey

    This work was performed during the summer of 2008 during the junior year of a BS in Mining Engineering. It was observed that the mine was having a problem with back break during the blasting of develo

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    Numerical Investigation of Blasting Fume Characteristics in a Block Caving Mine

    By Yong Pan, Purushotham Tukkaraja

    Block caving is a preferred underground mining technique due to its high production rate and low operation cost. Before its final step into a mature caving system using gravity to break rock, drilling

  • ISEE
    Numerical Investigation of Blasting Fume Characteristics in a Block Caving Mine

    By Yong Pan, Purushotham Tukkaraja

    In this paper, CFD was used to investigate the blasting toxic fume characteristics under different entrapping percentages and under changing muck pile properties like broken rock size and porosity. It

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Applying Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems to Blast Designs

    By Laurence Neufville

    Proper risk assessment and blast design are very desirable to the execution of a blast. Not only will this ensure that it achieves its desired outcome, but the probability of complaints and litigation

    Jan 1, 2009

  • ISEE
    "Journal: 100 Years / Keysone National Powder Company, Catalog 1912"

    By Robert Hopler

    THE KEYSTONE NATIONAL POWDER COMPANY is an Independent organization, incorporated under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania. It has three dynamite mills near Emporium, Pa., with a daily capacity of

    Jan 1, 2013

  • ISEE
    Novel Non-Detonable Pumpable Mechanical Sensitizer and System for Emulsion Explosives for Improved Security

    By Piet Halliday, Ellina Kharatyan

    Conventionally, emulsion matrices (unsensitized) need to be sensitized to become detonable explosives. This is done either chemically or mechanically. Both methods have their advantages and disadvanta

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    Journal: 100 Years / A PRIMER ON EXPLOSIVES FOR COAL MINERS Bulletin 17 by Charles E. Munroe & Clarence Hall U.S. Bureau of Mines, Washington, D.C.

    By Robert Hopler

    Of the common causes of the larger mine accidents, such as falls of roof and coal, gas and dust explosions, mine fires, and the misuse of explosives, all of which are often closely related, each must

    Jan 1, 2012