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Dilute Explosive Tile (DET) - A New Explosive with Unique Properties and Many Potential Applications in the Mining Industry
By Mohsen Sanai, Paul Gefken
"SRI International has developed and patented* a castable dilute explosive tile @ET) that offersunique advantages over conventional high explosive. The primary advantages of DET are that itsdetonation
Jan 1, 1995
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Post-Blast Evaluation Through Shovel Performance Monitoring
By Carl Hendricks, Malcolm Scoble
There currently exists no viable means of obtaining continuous feedback on blast efficiency. This paper describes the adaptation of a loading shovel to serve as a diagnostic tool to evaluate the succe
Jan 1, 1990
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Blasting in the New Mellinnium: Planning for the Unexpected
By Steve Dillingham
The horrific events surrounding September 11th left Americans with a feeling of sudden helplessness...the shock of being unprepared and powerless. From this tragedy, we can understand the need to prep
Jan 1, 2003
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New Training Technologies (Interactive Video)
By Roger Scarr, Richard A. Walker
Interactive video is the combination of computer and laser disc -technologies that allows for the storing of 54,000 single images or 30 minutes of video with the ability to access any segment or singl
Jan 1, 1990
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Standard of Care for Blasting Negligence
By Timothy Stark
Blasters are usually strictly liable for injury or damage caused by flyrock (trespassory invasion) and blast-induced vibrations (non-trespassory invasion). The application of strict liability to non-t
Jan 1, 2003
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Elimination of Ground Vibrations and Fly Rock: A Case Study of an Opencast Mine
By V. Sastry
Signgareni Collieries Company Ltd. is operating the JK Opencast Project, at Yellandu, with a rated annual capacity of 1.6 Mt of coal with an average stripping ratio of 4.3. This opencast coal project
Jan 1, 2001
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Regulatory Compliance for Drillers, Blasters and Distributors Hotspots and Pitfalls
By Paul Downing
Anyone in business today knows how difficult and time consuming it is to keep abreast of new and revised federal regulations. Those in the explosives industry know that such a task can be next to impo
Jan 1, 2003
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Predicting and Controlling Ground Vibration
By James W. Reil, Douglas A. Anderson
Blast vibration monitoring has generally been regarded as a necessary evil. New instrumentation and computer programs can change this. Rather than the usual trial and error methods to control vibratio
Jan 1, 1989
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Journal: 100 Years / A TREATISE ON COAL MINES J.H.H. Holmes London, 1816 / New Uses for Explosives E.I. Du Pont De Nemours Powder Company Pamphlet No. 1 January 1909
By H. Mullani
We have in southeast Kansas a variety of soils underneath which are a variety of subsoils compressed into what is commonly called “ hard pan.” These soils are of six types, ranging from a clay to a sa
Jan 1, 2010
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Blasting in the New Mellinnium: Reactive Versus Proactive SafetyYou Decide
By Steve Dillingham
Change occurs all of the time. In fact, it’s fair to say that change is a constant. Sometimes the change is inconsequential, but sometimes the change impacts us d i rectly and severely. Take regulatio
Jan 1, 2003
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Radio Controlled Detonators and Sequential Real Time Blast Applications
By J M. Laboz Bernard
Among the numerous technical evolutions in the blasting environment we are going to describe below the concep
Jan 1, 1995
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Environmental Impact Statement for Mining with Explosives: A Quantitative Method
By Roberto Golchi
This article describes the method used to quantify the Environmental Impact for the mining, by drilling and blasting, of a borrow pit for a gravity-dam. The affected environment was broken down into a
Jan 1, 2003
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Computer Modelling of Cast Blasting
By G K. Jorkenson
Blast designs to cast a percentage of overlying waste rock off coal seams differ greatly from conventional blast designs for surface coal mines. Today, blasting engineers can benefit from computer si
Jan 1, 1989
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Energy Partion in Blastiong
This paper is concerned with the blasting of rock in mining. The most common purpose of blasting rock is to cast it or to disrupt its structure sufficiently for effective digging and subsequent remova
Jan 1, 1991
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Iron Ore Blast Designs and Cap Testing at the Minntac Mine
By Jack Eloranta
To improve control of blasting, tests were performed to assess non-electric cap accuracy. Simultaneous testing using a Velocity of Detonation Recorder (VODR), Red Lake Lo-Cam and an Instantel DS-677 b
Jan 1, 1992
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Journal: Safety Talk / Regulatory Compliance - Transportation Compliance Challenges
By Ann Barron
“Hurry up” is the latest battle cry at explosives companies struggling to stay in compliance with the ever-growing onslaught of government regulations. The pressure continues to mount on industry prof
Jan 1, 2006
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The Journal of Explosives Engineering Vol 21 No 3 - Dynamite Daze (5324bd6e-ab26-4a55-9824-a273bcd40423)
In the office, on the wall to the right of my desk is a large map of the world. Some people stick pins in maps like this to show where they’ve been. If I did that my map would be a mess and look like
Jan 1, 2004
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A Practical Method of Field Testing Plastic Borehole Liners for Water Penetration
By M S. Stern, R Aguila
To control direct blasting costs many open pit mines dewater and line wet blastholes before loading them with ANFO or Heavy ANFO blends of explosives. The plastic lay-flat tubing used for these liners
Jan 1, 1997
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Timing Effects on Fragmentation
By C. Braun, C. Kennedy, P. Katsabanis
A series of small scale tests, simulating multi-hole blasts have been performed to establish the effect of delays on blast fragmentation. The blasts were performed in high quality granodiorite blocks,
Jan 1, 2006
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A Study on Post Blast Generation of Nitrogen Dioxide
By : D. Lawrence
Certain blasting applications are more prone to the generation of significant levels of nitrogen dioxide post blast fumes, more commonly referred to as after blast smoke, generally ranging in color fr
Jan 1, 1996