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  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    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

  • ISEE
    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