List of Technical Papers

List of Technical Papers / Presentations/Resources/Mining Books:

• APPRAISAL OF EXPLOSIVE PERFORMANCE BY MEASUREMENT OF VELOCITY OF DETONATION (VOD) IN MINES – DISCUSSION
• MEASUREMENT WHILE DRILLING (MWD) AND IMAGE ANALYSIS SYSTEMS: Today’s Most Useful and Cost-effective Tools for Mining Industry
• EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS SUPPORTING BLAST DESIGNS
• HANDLING OF MISFIRES IN MINES
• GROUND CONTROL IN OPEN PIT MINES
• SAFE STORAGE OF AMMONIUM NITRATE
• CHALLENGES IN MINE PLANNING AND SCHEDULING – DISCUSSION
• Cost Reduction in Mining Operations – Discussion
• MINING SOFTWARE SYSTEM OPTIMIZES MINE OPERATION, SAFETY AND ENHANCES OVERALL COST-EFFECTIVENESS & PRODUCTIVITY
• MINING AND INDUSTRIAL DUST, AIR POLLUTION AND RELATED OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES
• MINE PLANNING AND SCHEDULING – SMART PRACTICES
• Blasting in High Production UG Metal Mines workings – Vertical Crater Retreat (VCR) method
• Tunnel Construction Methods and their comparison
• Factors in Controlling Drilling and Blasting Costs in Mines – Discussion
• Characteristics of Rock and Geology influence Surface, UG and Tunnel Rock Blasting Results
• Programmable Electronic Detonator System
• MECHANICS OF BLASTING AND AIR-BLAST – ITS CONCEPT AND CONTROL WHILE BLASTING
• Wall Control Blasting Techniques
• Modification of Blasting Techniques as per Geological Conditions of Strata
• Environmental Impacts of Mining
• ACID DRAINAGE FROM MINES AND ITS RELATED PROBLEMS
• Blast Fragmentation Appraisal-Means to Improve Cost Effectiveness in Mines
• Cost effectiveness of open-pit hard rock Ore Mining
• Application of Air-Deck Technique in Surface Blasting
• SUBLEVEL CAVING TECHNIQUE
• SECURED AND SAFE TRANSPORTATION, STORAGE AND HANDLING OF AMMONIUM NITRATE
• MINING AND WORKPLACE SAFETY
• Factors in Designing of Blasts, Flyrock, Industrial Explosives used and safe operation of Bulk explosives in opencast mines
• ANFO, Emulsion and Heavy ANFO Blends – Useful Explosive and Blasting Agent for modern day blasting
• EXPLOSIVES
• Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) and its control
• Explosives, Theory of Breakage and Blasting Operations
• Mining Practices with Objective of Sustainability
• Tunnel Excavation
• Quality Leadership is most important in Elimination of Fatalities in Workplace
• Carbon Footprint reduction in Mining and Blasting operation
• Bringing Sustainability in Coal Mining Operations
• Techniques of Controlled Blasting
• Underground Coal Gasification (UCG)
• Coal Bed Methane (CBM)
• Safety in Handling of Explosives and Blasting
• Signature Hole Blast Vibration Control
• Blasting Techniques in Underground Metal Mines
• Tunneling
• Safe Practices of Site Mixed Explosives System

• Blast design for Drifting and Tunneling with Wedge and Burn Cut

• Over Burden Side Casting
• Advances in Drilling and Blasting
• Controlled Blasting
• Explosives, Ground Vibration and Air Blast
• Explosives and Blasting
• Blasting of Hot Holes in Opencast Coal Mines
• Blast Design in Opencast Mines and Concept of Optimum Blasting
• Blasting Practices in Mines
• Explosives and Blasting in Opencast Mines
• Bio-Mining
• Explosives and Blasting in Underground Coal Mines
• Ground Vibration Problem in Openpit Mega Blast
• Blast Sidecasting
• Controlled Blasting Techniques
• Non-primary Explosives Detonator (NPED)
  

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Technical Papers from Guest Authors (Embedded)

• Hardrock Tunnel Boring Machines
• BLAST DESIGN FORMULAS
• Mining
• Coal Liquefaction
• Coal Lecture Series – Mining Technology
• Coal – SCCL (India)
• Mining Methods (Presentation): Author – Venkat M

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Resources:

* The Future of Civil Explosives

* Intro_to_Mining

* COAL AND METAL (SURFACE AND UNDERGROUND) MINING – AN OVERVIEW

* An Examination of Mine Blasting Accidents Over a Quarter of a Century

* EXPLOSIVES_PRESENTATION

* UG_Coal_Blasting_Presentation

* Explosives and Blast Proceedures Manual

* Blast_design_rules_of_thumb

* Blast Designs to Protect Pit-Walls: By Hagan etal

* Use of Blast Timing to improve Slope Stability: Cinningham

* SUPER_CAUTIOUS_CONTOUR_BLASTING_UNDERGROUND

* Designing_Blast_Patterns_Using_Emperical_Formula

* Discussion on Firing Pattern in Blasting

* BLASTING IN SURFACE EXCAVATION

* Coupled Rock Motion and Gas Flow Modeling in Blasting_Computer code DMC (Distinct Motion Code)

* Bench_Blast_Modeling_Using_Numerical_Simulation_and_Mine_Planning_Software

* UNDERGROUND BLASTING

* Explosives and Detonators

* Prediction of the performance of explosives bench mining: by C. M. LOWNDS

* Types-of-Explosive-Accessories

* IME safety precautions of explosives and detonators

* Vertical Opening and Safety Practices in UG Mines

* Glossary_of_Blasting_Terms

* Development_ Blasting_&_ Supporting

* Downloadable Mining Publications from NIOSH

* Four-Section Parallel Hole Cut Model (Swedish method) for Tunnel Blast Design

* A gas pressure-based drift round blast design methodology 

* Mining_Methods_UnderGround_Mining

* Coal in China Resources_Uses_and_Advanced_Coal_Technologies

* Positioning_the_Indian_Coal_Power_Sector_for_Carbon_Mitigation

* Mine Waste Issues in the United States

* Concept of Blastability – An Update

* Artificial Neural Network Method of Rock Mass Blastability Classification

* History of mining accidents in the US over the last 100 years

* INDIAN MINING & CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT INDUSTRY

* Safety of Ammonium Nitrate

* Safe storage of solid ammonium nitrate – Code of practice (Australia_Reg.)

* Storage of Technical (Porous) Ammonium Nitrate

* Detonability of Ammonium Nitrate Solutions

* Threshold Shock Initiation Parameters of Liquid Phase Ammonium Nitrate

* Optimisation of Fragmentation and Comminution

* Construction Blasting Fundamentals

* Produced Water from Production of Crud Oil, Natural Gas and CBM

* Signature Hole Blast Vibration Control – Twenty Years Hence and Beyond

* Vibration Reduction Through Production-Signature Hole Blasting

* Nine_Years_of_Blasting_Experience_with_Electronic_Delay_Det

* What’s_New_with_Split-Desktop

* Development of Ammonium Nitrate as Blasting Agent

* Velocity of Detonation – A Mathematical Model

* COMPARATIVE_STUDY_OF_STRUCTURE_RESPONSE_TO_COAL_MINE_BLASTING

* Underground-Mine-Design_Surpac_software

* Approach_of_Signature_Hole_Vibration_monitoring_and_modeling_for_quarry_Vibration_Control

* Fragmentation Modelling for Underground (Onederra)

* Selection of inter-hole and inter-row timing based on burden relief analysis

* A practical method of Bench Blasting design for desired fragmentation based on digital processing technique and Kuz-Ram model – I.C.Engin

* The Kuz-Ram fragmentation model – 20 years on

* Vibration Standards for different countries

* Role_of_Blast_Design_Parameters_on_Ground_Vibration

* Advanced_Blast_Induced_Ground_Vibration_Management

* Computerised_Design_Program_for_Tunnel_Blasting

* Mining-Software

* SEISMOGRAPHS-AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

* Destructive_wave_Interference_in_Underground_Blasting_utilizing_Precise_Timing

* Environmental and Social Impacts of Mining

* Ground_Vibration_and_Airblast_Limits_for_Blasting_in_Mines_and_Quarries

* BLASTING_FRAGMENTATION_MANAGEMENT_USING_COMPLEXITY_ANALYSIS

* AIRBLAST_ CONTROL_TECHNIQUES_IN_OPEN_CUT_MINES

* EVALUATION_OF_ARTIFICIAL_NEURAL_NETWORKS_AS_A_RELIABLE_TOOL_IN_BLAST_DESIGN

* Developments_of_Granular_Emulsion_Explosives

* Improving_fragmentation_means_better_mining_and_can_cut_costs_in_many_areas_of_the_process

* Vibration_Monitoring_Practices_and_Technologies

* Open-Cast-Mine-Planning

* Regression Models_surface blasting

* Tunnel-Technology

* Tunnelling in rocks – Present Technology & Future Challenges (Presentation)

* Timing effects on fragmentation

* Break it Better – Mine Blast Fragmentation_IM Feature Article

* Blasthole Pressure_What it really means and how we should use it

* Ultimate Technological Combination in Electronic Blasting

* Digitally Integrating the Blast Design with Remote Wireless Electronic Blasting

* Reducing Overall Toxic Fumes at Fixed Work Output, by Formulating

* Mine-Wastes-Management

* An Improved Technique for Predicting Vibration Levels from Tunnel Blasting

* EVALUATION OF TRANSIT TUNNEL CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES

* Efficient use of energy to control bench damage

* Evaluation of Ground Vibration Induced by Blasting During the Excavation of a Transportation Tunnel in Istanbul Metropolis

* High-wall Control at Anglo Gold Ashanti, Navachab Mine

* Expanded Blast Design for Tight Controlled Hard Rock Trenching Adjacent to Twin Buried live Oil Pipelines- A Case Study

* A Study of Damage Profiles Behind Blasts_McKenzie_Holley

* Reduction_of_Blast_Induced_Ground_Vibrations_with Open_Trenches_in_Surface_Mines

* USING THE DIRECT SIMULATION MONTE CARLO APPROACH FOR THE BLAST IMPACT PROBLEM

* Safety Evaluation of Blasting Flyrock Risk with Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) Method

* Environmental and Social Impacts of Mining

* Pulse Plasma Rock Fragmentation Technology

* Case-studies-of-Applications-of-Explosives-Technology-fo-the-mining-industry

* The influence of blasting techniques on ignition of firedamp by permissible explosives

* FLEXIBLE OPEN-PIT MINE DESIGN UNDER UNCERTAINTY

* AN ANOTHER WAY FOR OPEN PIT MINE DESIGN OPTIMIZATION – FLOATING SLOPES METHOD

* METHOD TO REDUCE A PILED ROCK RESISTANCE TO PENETRATION

* Coal Mining and Production

* INDIAN MINING & CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT INDUSTRY

* Brochure Explosive grade Ammonium Nitrate Safety Aspects

* Development_of_Clean_Technology_for_Iron_Ore_Mines

* Canadian Guidelines for Pumping of Water-Based Explosives

* Spontaneous_Combustion_Guidelines

* Ammonium-Nitrate

* Underground Mining and Its Surface Effects

* Coal Mining Safety China’s Achilles’ Heel

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Books on Mining, Blasting and Explosives:

* Blasting principles for open pit mining Vol. 1 – William Hustrulid

* Blasting principles for open pit mining Vol. 2 – William Hustrulid

* Blast_design

* Rock Excavation:Compiled by: Dr. Sean Dessureault

* Surface and Underground Excavations Methods,Techniques and Equipments: By Tatiya

* Methods for Underground Mining-Atlas Copco

* Dictionary-of-Rock-Blasting-Terms-and-Symbols

* Rock – Blasting-Overbreak-Control_Konya

* Blast Design

* Engineering-Rock-Blasting-Operations_Bhandari

* Applied Explosives Technology for Construction and Mining: By Olofsson

* Cave Mining Handbook

* Hard_Rock_Miners_Handbook

* Explosives Chemistry

* Explosives by Meyer, Kohler, and Homburg (2007)

* Encyclopedia-of-Chemistry-Explosives-Materials

* Guide-to-Manufactured-Explosives

* Primary-Explosives

* The-Preparatory-Manual-of-Explosives

* Mine-Rehabilitation-Handbook

* BLAST VIBRATION COURSE_MEASUREMENT_ASSESSMENT_CONTROL

* Blast_Dust_and_Noise_Control

* ISA-Seabed-Mining

* Rock-Mechanics_for underground mining

*  Anatomy-of-a-Mine-Prospect-to-Production

* Modeling-and-Simulation-of-Mineral-Processing-Systems

*  The_Economics_of_Mining

* coal

* Rock-Mass-Classification

* Methods of exploitation of different types of Uranium deposits

* Metal_Mining_And_Environment

* Tunnels-and-Shafts-in-Rock

* TUNNELLING IN WEAK ROCKS

* Underground-Excavations-in-Rock_Hoek-Brown

* Modern Trends in Tunnelling and Blast Design

* Rock-Excavation-Handbook-Tunneling

* Rock_Excavation_Course_Blasting