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PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTIETH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON

EXPLOSIVES AND BLASTING TECHNIQUE

FEBRUARY 1-4, 2004 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA USA

Volume I

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF EXPLOSIVES ENGINEERS

TABLE OF CONTENTS 2004 GENERAL PROCEEDINGS Volume 1

(In order of Presentation) Deep Water Blasting on the River Nile in Southern Egypt K. Fletcher, M. Briggs, R. Grant & M. Cano Drilling & Blasting of a Small Diameter Shaft Next
R. Elliott & C. Goumans to Historic Structures 15

Bulk

Explosives Testing at the Red Dog Mine in Northwestern Alaska J. Kells & N. Paley Optimization
at the

31

Drill and Blast

Sparkhule Limestone Quarry

41

P. Martin

A Practical

Approach

for Blasters to Determine the

Optimal

Bench

Blasting

Conditions 51

A. Kahriman, G. Tuncer, A. Advanced Electronic

Ore within
a

Karadogan

& K. Ozdemir

Blasting Technology,

AEBT

Breaking 3,

205 Thousand Tons of

Millisecond 61 and its Effect the Commercial

W. Rosenstock
The Safe

Explosives Act

on

Explosives Industry
69

Eugene Baker Development, Application and Review

L. McAnuff of Ontario's

Quarry Blasting Vibration Guidelines

79

Further

Developments Relating to the Certification R. Wharton & D. Pickering

of

Explosives
87

Determination of Ore

Fragmentation by Image Analysis

in Sarcheshmeh Mine 99

Z. Hosseini, M. Amirrahmat & S. Khoshroo Less Fines Production in RMoser A Review of Rock Classification Methods and C.

Aggregate and Industrial Minerals Industry

109

Applicability

to Blast

Design
123

Ryu,

C. Sunwoo & H. Shin

Blasting Improvements by Using Most Active

A.

Rock Variations

on

Blast 133

Sauvage&A. Blanchier
to

Application of Strict Liability and Negligence

T. Stark

Blasting Claims
143

ix

We

Agree

to Provide

Indemnification,

Now What?

J. Friedman

153

Evaluating Airblast Damage Complaints

L. Gubbe Human

167
to

Response

to Ground

Vibration and Air Overpressure Due

Blasting in Open Cast

Non-Coal Mines in India: A Case A. Haldar, A.

P. Sahu & C.

Study Chakraborty, A. Raina, R. Yerpude, P. Choudhury, M. Ramulu,

179

Bandopadhyay
Gassing of Emulsion Explosives

Factors that Affect the Chemical

J. Manka Minimum
R.

195

Burning Pressures of Commercial Explosives Turcotte, C. Badeen, P. Lightfoot & D. Jones Growing Success in Transforming Rockbreaking

205

Electronic Detonators: C.

Cunningham
-

213

Explosives Notified Bodies M. Hagfors

Electronic

For

Safety in Europe
225

Blasting & Blast Management

Past, Present & Future

229

P. Reinders & F. Hammelmann

A New

Digital Centralized Blasting System

D. Hummel & P. Reinders 239

OSM Blaster

Training Modules

for Western Coal Mines And

Quarries
247

C. Loukides & C. Aimone-Martin

Design/Build Highway Blasting

Case

Study
255

F. Achuff & C. Aimone-Martin

A Case

Study of Overbreak C. Ryu, & B. Choi

Control in Tunnel

Blasting
265

Improving Drilling and Blasting by Using TQM

J.

and

Appropriate

IT

Hatchings
Back Break

273

Increasing

Using High Speed Blasting Techniques

283

TCook

Improving Blast Fragmentation Prediction with New Technologies for Rock

Mass Characterization

J.

Kemeny & J. Handy

291

Reinforced Concrete Structure Failure Mechanisms

Resulting from Explosively-Induced

301

Overpressures V. Berg & D. Preece Blasting Next

to
an

Unsupported Road Using Electronic Detonators

313

T. Rorke & S. Thabethe

Design

Sofware for Electronic

M.

Delays Higgins & K. Riihioja

-

327

Flyrock Control

By Chance

or

Design
335
Goldstrike

A. Richards &A. Moore

Implementation of Electronic Detonators at Barrick R. McKinstry, T. Bolles & M. Rantapaa Cavity Expansion by Hypervelocity Impact Applied C. Cunningham & T. Szendrei
Electronic Detonator
L. Airaud

Mines, Inc.
349

to Blasthole

Expansion by Detonation
361

Easy

to

Implement: No Longer

Myth...
373

Segregation Blasting Using Electronic Initiation D. Wagstaff&S. Scovira

Electronic Detonator and Initiation

at the Coeur Rochester

Mine, Nevada
379

Systems

Implications

of the Dominant

Design

for
391

Widespread Acceptance and

S. Brace

Sales of this "New"

Technology

Fugitive

Carbon Based Gases

Blasting Related or Not

409

K.

Eltschlager,
on

M. Harris & F. Baldassare

Blasting Effects

Grindability of Rocks R. Katsabanis, Kelebek, C. Pelley & M. Pollanen

the
S.
-

419

Electronic Detonators

Do

They Add Value?

431

M. Lownds & T. Louw

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