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  • ISEE
    Analysis of Annual-Delayed Successive (4D) Geophysical Charges in a Borehole

    By D. Preece

    The mining and oil industry employs techniques such as geologic mapping, core drilling and electromagnetic and potential field techniques to explore for new deposits. Since new discoveries of major ne

    Jan 1, 2011

  • ISEE
    Slope stability’s control for designing and execution of massive open pit blasting

    By P. Ravanal, J. Blazquez, F. Ortega, P. Couceiro, J. Navarro

    Massive blasting technique is an interesting alternative to optimize mining’s performance by enhancing digging rates and overall operation’s activities, especially when a reduced operational bench wid

    Jan 1, 2024

  • ISEE
    Low Density Bulk Emulsion Applied in Perimeter Holes in Underground Development Heading Blasts

    By Anne Caroline Costacurta Polli, Jose Rojas Cáceres, Roberto Mahler de Morais, Thais Costa Silva

    The technology and the knowledge about the behavior of explosives and detonation accessories allowed to create new products for different situations by the restrictions imposed by the market. In a Bra

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Impacts of Alternative Hydrocarbon Fuels on Ammonium Nitrate-Based Explosives

    By Jeffrey W. Lin, Larry B. Weston, Jonathan D. Abbott, Jordan L. Arthur

    Hydrocarbon fuel oils are one of the main components of ammonium nitrate-based explosives, including ANFO (Ammonium Nitrate-Fuel Oil) and emulsions. While a wide variety of fuels can, and have, been u

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Analysis of Sympathetic Detonation in Detonating Cord

    By Josh Calnan, Paul M. Holmgren, Abigail N. Styer

    Detonating cord is a staple of the explosives industry, used widely in the civil and defense industries. Detonating cord is a thin, flexible plastic tube filled with pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Swedish Cautious Blast Excavation at the CSM/ONWI Test Site in Colorado

    By Roger Holmberg, William Hustrulid

    Swedish cautious blasting techniques were used to excavate a room at the CSM Experimental Mine in Idaho Springs, Colorado,as part of a ONWI/DOE sponsored nuclear waste disposal research program.

    Jan 1, 1981

  • ISEE
    Fragmentation Mill Throughput Improvement Through a Dual-Salt Sodium Nitrate Emulsion Product

    By Khushaal Popli, Vanessa Roeland, Brian Hall, Carl Diederichs

    Highland Valley Copper (HVC) has embraced an integrated Mine to Mill approach to comminution since the late 1990s. Previous blasting optimization was carried out through adjustments to blast pattern g

    Feb 6, 2023

  • ISEE
    Investigation of Blasting Fumes using Numerical Simulation

    By Sunil Vytla, Akash Adhikari, Purushotham Tukkaraja

    Blasting operations produces gases and fumes that may be toxic or non-toxic in nature. A detonation of commercial explosives such as ANFO, emulsion, and dynamite would ideally produce only nontoxic pr

  • ISEE
    Methane-air Mixture Air-blast Approximated Using Detonating Cord in Rock Dust Dispersibility Studies

    By BruneJurgen F., Richard C. Gilmore, Matthew Schreiner, Ray Johnson

    Explosive pockets of methane-air mixtures accumulate in underground coal mines and, when ignited, produce an air-blast wave that can disturb combustible coal dust on the floor, roof, and ribs. To prev

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    How the USDA Uses Explosives to Remove Beaver Dams in Unique Locations

    By Bruce R. Leland, Steven H. Smith, John D. Paulson

    The USDA - Wildlife Services has been removing beaver dams with explosives for over 30 years. This paper will discuss the history of the explosives program, summarize how we've evolved, and highlight

    Feb 1, 2020

  • ISEE
    Reducing Vibration Damage Claims: Field Application of Strong Public Relations and One Method of Using Commonly Available Seismograph and Video Taping Equipment to Document Blast Vibration Regression at the Nearest Structure

    By Mark R. Fritzen, Ted A. Fritzen

    Anytime that blasting operations will be conducted near existing inhabited structures, vibration damage claims are a major concern of the blasting contractor. It has been our experience that even when

    Jan 1, 1994

  • ISEE
    Geotechnical Slope Remediation Via RC-drilling And “Controlled Slope Failure Blasting

    By Tyler Acorn

    In December of 2009 an estimated one million ton slope failure activated a 10 million ton mass impacting use of the main ramp system in the Newmont Gold Quarry pit. The failure left behind a 400 foot

    Jan 1, 2011

  • 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
    Designing Blasts by Simulation Rather than Solely by Trial/Error

    By Roger Favreau, Patrice Favreau

    Without blasting there can be no roads, no hospitals, no factories, not even foundations for homes. Yet in 1960 the only way to design a blast was by trial/error. By comparison, bridges were already d

    Jan 1, 2013

  • ISEE
    Marvel Loch – Core and Shell Mass Blast

    By Joseph Hoang, Nick Reed, Scott Wishart, Michael Lovitt

    Marvel Loch Underground forms part of St Barbara Limited’s Southern Cross Operations which is located 360km (224 miles) east of Perth. Southern Cross Operations produces approximately 120,000 ounces o

    Jan 1, 2012

  • ISEE
    Mitigation and Management of Blast Generated Fume in Eastern Australia

    By Muamer Medusalic, Kim Henley, Lucas Bottomley

    The period from 2009 to 2012 has witnessed a large rise in the number of blast-generated fume events in Eastern Australia, where highly visible oxides of nitrogen (NOx) are produced from coal mine bla

    Jan 1, 2012

  • 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
    SmokeFCM: Segmentation of Quarry Blast Smoke Plumes using Self-Adaptive Weighted Fuzzy C-Means

    By E. Lentilucci, A. Dey, X. Liu, A. Datta, S. Ghosh

    The segmentation of quarry blast smoke plumes is a crucial research area that has the potential to enhance safety, environmental monitoring, object detection, and regulatory compliance in the mining i

    Jan 1, 2024

  • ISEE
    Distribution of Specific Impulse on Vehicles Subjected to IED's

    By Alexander Hauck, Dimitri Jung, Uli Leiste

    This paper describes results from small scale tests conducted to determine the distribution of impulse on target plates when subjected to loading due to the detonation of a buried mine. The tests were

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    Drill and Blast Trial Planning During Drill-Mill Optimization Project

    By Tristan Worsey, John Henchion, Nathan Rouse, Yannick Lauras

    "This paper presents an approach used to plan and evaluate drill and blast trials for a mine that currently mechanically excavates in-situ rock. The document presents the approach used to plan the tri

    Jan 1, 2017