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  • ISEE
    Benchmarking Drill and Blast Compliance to Design, A Case Study

    By Alan Tordoir, Mark Roberts

    The drill and blast process is a critical function within the production cycle which significantly impacts the ability of an operation to effectively meet its safety and production targets. Acknowledg

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    The Largest Rock Fill Dam in the United States

    By L. L. Oriard

    he Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) supplies water to some 16 million people in a semi-arid region. Most of this water is imported. Some of the supply lines cross over the San

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Blast Design for Optimizing Fragmentation While Controlling Frequency of Ground Vibration

    By Andrew P. Ritter, Douglas A. Anderson, Stephen R. Winzer

    We have adopted a unified approach to blast design. Based on earlier research, we chose minimum relief of 3.4 ms/ft between holes in a row and 8.6 ms/ft between echelons to produce good fragmentation.

    Jan 1, 1982

  • ISEE
    ApplicationofArcGISProinBlast-InducedGroundVibrationAnalysisinanOpenPit CopperMine

    By Yong Pan, Purushotham Tukkaraja

    It has been well understood that blasting is the cost-effective method for breaking rocks as compared with the mechanical systems. However, vibrations induced by blasting in open-pit mines could pose

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    Blasting Application With 50% of Used Oil in Emulsion Fuel

    By Dadan Munawar, Benny Gunawan

    Blasting at Sebesi in Central Tutupan Pit area in South Kalimantan, Indonesia is planned to be using emulsion, where used oil makes up 50% of the total emulsion fuel. The significant amount of used oi

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    The Effect of Discontinuity Orientation on the Success of Pre-Split Blasting

    Previous approaches to pre-split blasting theory have tended to concentrate on the mathematics of dynamic stress wave interaction, whilst only recognizing some interaction with quasi-static stresses i

    Jan 1, 1984

  • ISEE
    Emperical Characterization of Oil Shale Cratering Experiments

    By K Lombardo

    Numerous small- and intermediate-size cratering experiments have been conducted in Piceance Creek Basin oil shale at the Colony and Anvil Points oil shale mines near Rifle, Colorado. The purpose of th

    Jan 1, 1983

  • ISEE
    Fragmentation Measurement Results for Fourteen Full-Scale Production Blasts: A Comparison With a Three Dimensional Wave Code

    By Charles H. Dowding, Catherine T. Aimone

    Rock particle sizes were measured at fourteen steep-slope Appalachian coal mines during production blasting. The distribution of rock sizes shows the effects of inter-hole timing, sequence of hole ini

    Jan 1, 1983

  • ISEE
    An Engineering Model for Predicting Rubble Motion During Blasting

    By J T. Schamaun

    Recent applications of explosives and blasting agents to rubble rock have led to requirements for more elaborate design and analysis methods. In most blasting uses, it is necessary not only to fractur

    Jan 1, 1983

  • ISEE
    Shaped Charge Induced Concrete Damage Predictions Using RHT Constitutive Modeling

    By Dale S. Preece, Vanessa S. Berg

    Shaped charges are being utilized in defense applications against a wider variety of targets including concrete, rock, and soil. This work was motivated by a heightened interest in characterizing the

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    Improving Productivity in Pillar Blasting – HZL, Sindesar Khurd Mine

    By Deepankar Das, Gulshan Kumar Sadhwani, Jyoti Prakash Sahoo

    Sindesar Khurd Mine (SKM), the largest underground mine in the Hindustan Zinc Limited portfolio, is located approximately 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of Udaipur. In the 2018 financial year SKM achi

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    Evaluation of Velocity of Detonation of Permitted Explosives

    By R R. Singh, U K. Dey, S K. Roy

    "Commercial explosives being a heterogeneous mixture of many chemical compounds in prefixed proportion, their velocity of detonation (VOD) may vary from batch to batch, due to variations in the propor

    Jan 1, 2007

  • ISEE
    An Analysis and Prevention of Flyrock Accidents in Surface Blasting Operations

    By Thomas E. Lobb, Harry C. Verakis

    Blasting is a primary means of extracting minerals and ores at surface mining operations. The domestic consumption of explosives and blasting agents during the year 2001 was about 5.25 billion pounds.

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    Electronic Blast Initiation – The Evolving Perception of Australian Mining Operations

    By Greg Wyartt

    Although electronic detonators and blast initiation systems have been commercially available for several decades, uptake in the Australian mining industry has been very slow when compared to other glo

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    Portable Rock Fragmentation Sensing Using 3D Imaging

    By Ian Bell, Shahram Tafazoli, Bahram Sameti, Aylin Azmin, Edmond Chow, Nima Ziraknejad

    Image-based rock fragmentation analysis methods have been applied by blast engineers to estimate rock size distribution for over 25 years. These methods utilize a wide range of image segmentation tech

    Jan 1, 2014

  • ISEE
    To React Or Not To React? – Tis’a Fuelish Question!

    By Michael Wieland

    Smoke/fume measurements from rapid transitory charge reactions are not wholly comparable with thermodynamic reaction code (TDRC) results, since quenched chemical reactions yield nonequilibrium concent

    Jan 1, 2012

  • ISEE
    High-Order Numerical Methods and Reaction Rate Law for Non-Ideal Detonation Modeling

    By Eduardo Lozano, Vilem Petr

    This study demonstrates the ability of high-order, shock-capturing methods to simulate detonation wave propagation in right circular cylinders of non-ideal explosives. 2-D axisymmetric, reactive Euler

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    Debris Collection Efforts Following a Large-scale AN Detonation

    By P. E. Hoffman, Joshua Ph. D.

    The Institute of Makers of Explosives (IME) led a post-detonation debris collection project in conjunction with a large AN railcar detonation conducted by the Department of Homeland SecurityTransporta

    Jan 1, 2019

  • ISEE
    Underground Longhole Blasting near Large-diameter Booster Fans

    By Norm Disley, Kingsley Hortin, Gertjan Bekkers

    As part of the expansion of the Kidd Creek Mine to 2,682 meters (8800 feet) below surface, two largediameter 3000kW (4000HP) booster fans were installed at the 6000 level. Shortly after commissioning

    Jan 1, 2008

  • ISEE
    Auditing Underground Development Drilling and Blasting

    By Thomas L. Barkley

    My historic auditing of Underground Drilling and Blasting Practices has demonstrated to the author the need for reviews of many mines' procedures in these processes. Poor understanding of the basic pr

    Jan 1, 2019