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  • ISEE
    The Large Chamber Test for Toxic Fumes Analysis of Permissible Explosives

    By Dennis J. Viscusi, James H. III Rowland, Lon D. Santis, Mark H. Weslowski

    This paper describes the procedure for analysis of toxic fumes from the detonation of high explosives using the Large Chamber at the U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM), Pittsburgh Research Center (PRC). This

    Jan 1, 1995

  • ISEE
    Near Borehole Fracture and Fragmentation Studies in Copper Porphyries

    By Catherine T. Aimone

    A series of experiments have been performed to characterize fragmentation and microcracking in quartz monzonite copper porphyry. The flyer plate impact method was used to generate plane shock waves in

    Jan 1, 1985

  • ISEE
    The Effect of Explosive Type and Delay Between Rows on Fragmentation

    By Mark S. Stagg, Rolfe E. Otterness, Stephen A. Rholl

    The Bureau of Mines fired seven test blasts in a 22-ft bench of limestone, screening the material to investigate the influence of explosive type and between row delays on fragmentation. Four 4-hole, s

    Jan 1, 1989

  • ISEE
    Seismic Study of the Dynamic Response of Rock to Cylindrical Charges Fired in a Half and a Quarter Space Geometry

    By Sharon K. Reamer, Klaus G. Hinzen

    A series of controlled seismic experiments was performed in a limestone quarry in southern Germany to study seismic effects of cylindrical charges fired in both a half space (HS) (burden 63 m) and qua

    Jan 1, 1991

  • ISEE
    Fire Protection Provided by Detonator Containers

    By Lon D. Santis

    The Code of Federal Regulations Title 30, Parts 56, 57, 75, and 77 require that detonators and explosives be separated by four inches of hardwood or equivalents when transported together in mines. Thi

    Jan 1, 1997

  • ISEE
    Journal: Safety Talk / Crisis Management

    By William Reisz

    The explosives and blasting industry has a commendable safety and security record, especially over the last several decades. This is due in large part to our newer technologies, better training and ed

    Jan 1, 2012

  • ISEE
    Tigerwin - a Windows PC Code from Computing Explosives Performance and Thermodynamic Properties

    By Per-Anders Persson

    TIGERWIN, now on CD, is a user-friendly personal computer code (running under Windows) which determines the detonation and expansion state of an explosive from its known chemical composition. TIGERWIN

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Development of Drop Raise Blasting at the Homestake Mine

    By Paul V. Sterk

    In the early 1980's, the Homestake Mine converted from labor intensive methods such as open cut-and-fill mining to Vertical Crater Retreat (\/CR) bulk mining and mechanized cut and fill. This transfor

    Jan 1, 1991

  • ISEE
    Degree of Rock Fragmenjation Under High Strain Rates

    By U. Prasad

    This paper summarizes the investigation carried out on a wide range of rock types, subjected to high velocity impact to simulate explosive action. A Split- Hopkinson Bar apparatus was used to generate

    Jan 1, 2001

  • ISEE
    Journal: Safety Talk, Drilling Safety – Minimizing Risk Factors

    By William Reisz

    Many different types of drills coming in a wide range of sizes and configurations are used in the blasting industry today. While each system may have its own unique attributes and capabilities, it may

    Jan 1, 2013

  • ISEE
    A non-toxic, safe and reliable non-primary-explosives detonator

    By Marco Antonio Falquete

    Conventional detonators and blasting caps make use, as igniters, of flame-shock-, andfriction-sensitive primary explosives, such as lead azide, lead styphnate, mercury fulminate, etc, most of them sev

    Jan 1, 2007

  • ISEE
    Methods of Evaluating Exploxive Reactivity of Explosive-Contaminated Solid Waste Substances

    By Richard J. Mainiero, T S. Bajpayee

    The Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior, has developed test procedures and criteria for evaluating explosive reactivity of explosive contaminated solid waste substances generated by U.S.

    Jan 1, 1988

  • ISEE
    Improved Drill and Blast Designs Free $3.6M of Ore for Surface Copper Mine Tacio Ferreira, Dyno Nobel

    By Tacio Ferreira

    A surface copper mine in the Western United States faced challenges in recovering rock and ore from final walls because of geotechnical constraints that require restrictions on methods for loading bla

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Journal: Safety Talk / Pump Protection Systems on Mobile Equipment Recommended Safety Program

    By Tom Watts

    The practice of pumping bulk blasting agents is regulated by many agencies around the world. The explosives manufacturers have done an excellent job of hazard and operability studies allowing criteria

    Jan 1, 2011

  • ISEE
    Update on Blasting Near a Crusher

    By Scott G. Giltner, Alex Schwenk

    This paper is an update on a paper presented at the 2022 ISEE conference. The original paper presented how the mine operator desired to open up ore reserves near several mine structures including two

    Jan 21, 2025

  • ISEE
    Detonation Behavior of Emulsion Explosives Containing Large Voids

    By Y. Hirosaki, H. Hamashima, Y. Itoh Kato, S. Tanaka

    The emulsion explosives show non- ideal detonation behavior, and its detonation velocity can be controled by selecting the size and adjusting the quantity of voids involved. To establish the technolog

    Jan 1, 2000

  • ISEE
    Half-Way House - Controlled Demolition Group "Rocks the Casbah" with Tricky Special-Effects-Laden Blast

    By Jane Wright, Brent Blanchard

    Question: When it comes to demolition projects, what could be more demanding than asking a blaster to explosively demolish a stubby, heavily-reinforced concrete structure in the heart of a third-world

    Jan 1, 2002

  • ISEE
    Repeated Blasting: Fatigue Damaging or Not?

    By Mark S. Stagg, David E. Siskind

    The Bureau of Mines arranged to have a wood-frame test house built in the pat of an advancing surface coal nine so it could investigate the effects of repeated blasting on a residential house. Structu

    Jan 1, 1985

  • ISEE
    Application of Numerical Modelling to Practical Blast Design

    By P D. Katsabanis, L Liu

    Numerical modelling of fragmentation and throw is used to provide information on practical blast design parameters. The function of airdecking and its practical implications, the importance of the ini

    Jan 1, 1997

  • ISEE
    Floor Blasting for Establishment of a New Crusher in Underground Limestone Mine

    By Chris Searing

    An underground room-and-pillar limestone mine in Western Missouri acquired a new primary crusher, physically larger in every dimension than the unit it replaced. Due to the space constraints within th

    Feb 6, 2023