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  • ISEE
    Six Pillars, Inventory Management & ATF Record-keeping

    By Ron Ketterling

    Donna Summer wrote and recorded a song in 1983 with Michael Omartian called, “She Works Hard for the Money.” The song was inspired by her encounter with an exhausted rest room attendant, Onetta Johnso

  • ISEE
    The Safety of Explosives Handling and Blasting in the Mining Industry

    By Kerina Taylor

    Due to their high amount of stored energy, explosives have been the cause of many serious injuries and fatalities over the last centuries. Despite safety advances and awareness in the last decades, in

    Jan 1, 2011

  • ISEE
    Rock Fragmentation by Explosives: Myths and Realities

    By Wilfrid Comeau

    While researching for a theme lecture (Comeau, 1993l) on: 'The Mechanics and Physics Explosives', the author of Energy Transfer in Rock Fragmentaion by was confronted with many conflicting concepts re

    Jan 1, 1995

  • ISEE
    Gas control station for blasting process to fulfil the environmental goals set by the Chilean Ministry of Health.

    By Manuel Gutierrez, Roberto Gomez, Juan Aravena, Johan Gjoevad

    The use of explosives in mining operations is a process that involves the search for an ideal explosive for the type of geological condition of the mineral to be extracted. For the explosives present

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    A High=Preformance Vibration Monitoring and Data Distribution System for Large-Scale Urban Development Projects

    By Robert Lee, Pertti Paavola

    Automated vibration monitoring and web-based data distribution has proven itself on the largest single construction project ever undertaken in Finland. The excavation for the Kamppi Center Project in

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    European Explosives Qualifications – The Euexcert Project

    By H. Wallin, I. G. Wallace, J. Akhavan, E. Nilsson

    Over the past three years the UK together with Sweden, Norway, Finland, Italy have been taking part in a EU funded Leonardo da Vinci programme. More recently EFEE have participated in the project know

    Jan 1, 2008

  • ISEE
    The Odd Challenges of Backcountry Trail Blasting

    By Ed Billington, Mike Shields

    The trail blaster is faced with a wide range of workrelated challenges, not the least being the work setting itself. It is usually remote, being anywhere from 5 to 30 or more miles (8 to 50 km) from a

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    Journal: Transportation of Explosives in Canada Introduction to Emergency Response Assistance Plans

    By Josee Boudreau

    Transport Canada has regulatory requirements that pertain to the transportation of explosives. An important component includes the requirement for an approved Emergency Response Assistance Plan (ERAP)

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    The Actual Cost of Hole Deviation to the Mining Industry - A case Study at Nkana Division of the Former Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Limited

    By Sam Kangwa, Thomson Sinkala

    In the mining industry, drilling accuracy has a significant effect on the economy of operations. In this paper, results from the Nkana Division of the former Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines are prese

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    Value Beyond Blasting

    By Orica

    Unlicking the Possibilities ISEE Digital Detonator Workshop New Orleans, LA Wednesday, February 4, 2004

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    Development and Blast Applications for Resolution Copper's No. 10 Shaft

    By Tom Goodell, James Cox, Scott Scovira

    Resolution Copper Mining is sinking a 6943 foot (2116 m) deep shaft to access and develop a new panel caving mine with approximately 1.6 billion known tons of porphyry copper resource. This mine will

    Jan 1, 2014

  • ISEE
    EUExcert a European Initiative for Improved Explosive Competence

    By Roberto Folchi, Hans Wallin, Mara Battocchio

    An understanding of explosives science and technology, and the competence to harness it is central to maintaining Explosives capability, national security, and in sustaining a competitive industry. A

    Jan 1, 2013

  • ISEE
    Drill Monitoring and GPS Developments and their Impact on the Drill to Mill Process

    By John Vynne

    Too often, a mine’s operations, including drilling, blasting, loading, hauling, crushing, processing, etc., are considered independent steps, rather then a continuous process. In fact, these are inter

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Standard Digital Video Analysis and Engineering Field Controls

    By Tom Treleaven

    The success of any blast is dependent on the accuracy of the blast design and the field controls used on the shot. This point cannot be over emphasized because when the geometry is not measured and/or

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    "Journal: Crazy Horse Memorial Update / Celebrating 60 Years of Carving Dreams into Reality"

    By Unknown

    More than 60 years ago Lakota (Sioux) Chief Henry Standing Bear asked Korczak Ziolkowski to create a monument of Crazy Horse in the sacred Black Hills. Today, you can see Standing Bear’s dream has gro

    Jan 1, 2009

  • ISEE
    Hole Deviations in Mining Operations: Types, Sources and Effects

    By Sam Kangwa, Thomson Sinkala

    Th e re are three basic types of hole deviations in long hole d ri l l i n g , n a m e l y collar i n g , alignment and tr a j e c t o r y dev i a t i o n s . In mining, the accur a cy in drilling has

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    The Application of Electronic Detonators to Improve Blast Vibration Predictions at Limestone Quarries

    By R. Farnfield, W. Birch

    Arguably, some of the most restrictive statutory blast vibration requirements attached to mineral extraction operations can be found in the United Kingdom. Such limitations are, as a rule for the UK,

    Jan 1, 2006

  • ISEE
    Blast Vibration and Seismograph Section - A History of the Development of Instruments for Measuring Vibrations of the Earth - Part 1

    By Robert Hopler

    Earthquakes, ground vibrations, seisms, or whatever you want to call the shaking of the earth, have been a fact of life throughout time. In spite of this, most people (except those unfortunate enough

    Jan 1, 2006

  • ISEE
    Journal: 100 Years / FIG. 2. Bridge wrecked by material from blast near Chattanooga, Tenn

    By Robert Hopler

    A blast caused the destruction of a bridge and loaded freight train and the death of three men, near Chattanooga, Tenn., on May 16, 1907. The blast and its disastrous effect has been described by Mr.

    Jan 1, 2008

  • ISEE
    Craxy Horse Drilling & Blasting the Fine Art of Mountain Carving

    By Crazy Horse - The Journal of Explosives Engineering - Vol 20 No 1

    The crew at Crazy Horse Memorial has produced a w o n d e rful new video called “The Fine Art of Mountain Carving.” The video closely examines for the first time, the extraordinary explosives engineer

    Jan 1, 2004