46th Annual Conference

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Bookstore Hours (Room Agate A; Third Floor)

28 Jan 20

7:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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Foundation Trustee Meeting (Room Granite B; Third Floor)

28 Jan 20

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

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Registration Hours (Room Mineral Foyer; Third Floor)

28 Jan 20

7:00 AM - 4:00 PM

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Seismograph Section Meeting (Room Mineral FG; Third Floor)

28 Jan 20

7:00 AM - 8:30 AM

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Blasting Mitigation Measures Used to Control a Highwall Failure Risk (Capitol Ballroom 1-4; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Speaker(s): Joseph Mukendi Kabuya

Blasting mitigation measures were used to control a highwall failure risk. This consisted in optimizing the blasting parameters which would not ind... More...

Render-Safe Operations in an Urban Environment (Capitol Ballroom 5-7; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

Speaker(s): Robert McClure

Rendering safe explosives in an urban environment presents a unique challenge due to disruption and safety concerns of the general public. A recent... More...

Session 6 - Rock Fragmentation (Capitol Ballroom 1-4; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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Chair - Dale Preece More...

Session 7 - Safety and Security (Capitol Ballroom 5-7; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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Chair - Bill Reisz More...

Investigating the Use of Complex Geometry Shock Tunnels to Model Urban Bombings (Capitol Ballroom 5-7; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Speaker(s): Barbara Rutter

Using complex geometry shock tunnels to simulate urban bombings and similar scenarios More...

Spouse Program Continental Breakfast (Room Mineral A; Third Floor)

28 Jan 20

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

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Vibration Monitoring Using In-house Developed Devices - A Taylor's Approach (Capitol Ballroom 1-4; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Speaker(s): Francisco Leite

It was development a new equipment using a microcontroller and electronic sensors for vibration monitoring and it was tested side by side with trad... More...

Blaster's Training/Education Subcommittee Meeting (Room Granite B; Third Floor)

28 Jan 20

9:00 AM - 10:30 PM

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Exhibit Hall Hours (Centennial Ballroom; Third Floor)

28 Jan 20

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

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Modeling Blast Induced Damage in Open Pit Mines with Numerical Models (Capitol Ballroom 1-4; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Speaker(s): Jason Furtney

Understanding the effect of blast induced damage on wall stability is critical to safe and economical operation of a large open pit mine. Numerical... More...

Relevant Good Practice (RGP) for Explosive Demolition of Structures on Nuclear and Civil Sites (Capitol Ballroom 5-7; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Speaker(s): John Wolstenholme

This paper provides guidance for the use of Relevant Good Practice (RGP) in the explosive demolition of structures. In industry, these are referred... More...

A Practical Guide for the Blasting of Armour Stone or Riprap (Capitol Ballroom 1-4; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Speaker(s): Ron Elliott

Industry best practice guidelines for the blasting of riprap or armour stone. More...

Numerical Investigation of Blasting Fume Characteristics in a Block Caving Mine (Capitol Ballroom 5-7; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Speaker(s): Yong Pan

It showed that CFD was a very useful method to study blasting fume in underground mine and it took much longer time to dilute toxic fume into a saf... More...

City Tour and Cherry Creek Shopping (Room Meets at the hotel front entrance)

28 Jan 20

10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

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Coffee Break (Centennial Ballroom Foyer; Third Floor)

28 Jan 20

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Tracks: Breaks

Minimising Coal Damage and Loss Due to Cast Blasting (Capitol Ballroom 1-4; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Speaker(s): Tapan Goswami

The main objective of any cast blasting is to maximise the coal recovery. This paper discusses the importance of coal surface mapping, rock propert... More...

Non-Ideal Detonation Modeling of Ammonium Nitrate-Based Explosives (Capitol Ballroom 5-7; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

Speaker(s): Juan Navarro

An ellipsoidal shock shape approach is used to model the main properties from some of the most common non-ideal explosives used in mining and quarr... More...

Session 8 - Research 2 (Capitol Ballroom 5-7; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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Chair - Bill Adamson More...

Session 9 - Blast Design 1 (Capitol Ballroom 1-4; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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Chair - Cam Thomas More...

Blast Optimization Using both the Multiple Blasthole Fragmentation (MBF) and Multiple Seed Waveforms (MSW) Models at an Open Pit Metal Mine (Capitol Ballroom 1-4; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Speaker(s): J.P. Remi Proulx

A blast optimization project was carried out at an Open Pit Mine in the USA using the MBF Model and the MSW blast vibration model. The MBF and MSW ... More...

Projectile Generator Design for Underground Coal Mine Seal Testing (Capitol Ballroom 5-7; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Speaker(s): Ethan Steward

The paper details the construction and initial testing of a projectile generator intended to test the effects of high velocity impacts on undergrou... More...

New Model for Realistic 3D Blast Simulation (Capitol Ballroom 1-4; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Speaker(s): Thierry Bernard

3D model of a new type to simultaneously simulate the fragmentation of the rock , its damage, its displacement and the associated seismic levels in... More...

Presplit Design Based on Borehole Pressures (Capitol Ballroom 5-7; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Speaker(s): Anthony Konya

This paper presents research which disproves the shockwave theory of presplitting and give proof to the hoop stress theory of presplitting. Additio... More...

Drilling Section Member Meeting (Room Mineral FG; Third Floor)

28 Jan 20

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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Fragblast Section Member Meeting (Room Granite B; Third Floor)

28 Jan 20

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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ISEE Lunch (included in registration) (Centennial Ballroom Foyer; Third Floor)

28 Jan 20

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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Beverage Sponsored by Montabert. More...

Controlled Blasting for Grasberg Slope Optimization (Capitol Ballroom 1-4; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Mine implemented a quality driven Slope Optimization program for final pushback, with the goal to safely increase recoverable metals through steepe... More...

Dynamic Pressure Study to Minimize Misfires at Pueblo Viejo Mine (Capitol Ballroom 5-7; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Speaker(s): Guillermo Silva

Instrumentation strategy and results of a monitoring campaign conducted at Pueblo Viejo mine is described. Dynamic pressures generated by a blastho... More...

Session 10 - Explosives Manufacturing and Formulations (Capitol Ballroom 1-4; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

1:30 PM - 4:00 PM

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Chair - Robert Farnfield More...

Session 11 - Problems and Solutions (Capitol Ballroom 5-7; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

1:30 PM - 4:00 PM

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Chair - Lyall Workman More...

Bingham Canyon Mine-Blasting Through and Next to Active Underground (Capitol Ballroom 5-7; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Speaker(s): Jake Cefalo

The implementation of blasting practices and designs to collapse sections of an active underground while maintaining vibration limits below levels ... More...

Dilution and Ore-Loss Optimization in Underground Mines (Capitol Ballroom 1-4; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Speaker(s): Sami Kara

The mining companies put a lot of effort to extract lower grade with minimum cost. The dilution control helps to achieve this goal. In Polymetal Si... More...

Subdrill - The Underutilized Blasting Parameter (Capitol Ballroom 5-7; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Speaker(s): Stephen Mansfield

In open cut metalliferous blasting, the use of subdrill has primarily been limited to achieve excavation down to the target floor elevation. A new ... More...

Utilizing a Dual Belly Auger MPU to Manufacture Bulked Inhibited Explosives (Capitol Ballroom 1-4; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Speaker(s): Lee Julian

This paper presents the unique benefits and characteristics of bulking inhibited explosives for use in reactive ground, and their manufacture with ... More...

Controlling Air Blast with Drone 3D Profiling (Capitol Ballroom 5-7; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Speaker(s): Cara Rosen

This case study addresses the benefits of utilizing drone 3D profiling to capture and model challenging geology to control high air blast. 3D model... More...

Emerging Professionals Section Meeting (Room Mineral FG; Third Floor)

28 Jan 20

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Peculiarities of Drilling and Blasting in Underground Small-Scale Mines (Capitol Ballroom 1-4; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Speaker(s): Patricio Gonzalez

Drilling and blasting processes in artisanal and small-scale mining present peculiar, irrational and inefficient characteristics that can be mitiga... More...

Detection of Geological Features using Aerial Image Analysis and Machine Learning (Capitol Ballroom 5-7; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Speaker(s): Ankit Jha

This papers aims at detecting geological features in a bench using aerial image analysis and machine learning. More...

Evaluation of the Methods to Determine Constituents of Bulk Commercial Explosives used in the Mining Industry (Capitol Ballroom 1-4; Fourth Floor)

28 Jan 20

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Speaker(s): Gary Cavanough

This project aimed to evaluate a range of methods available for the quality control of explosive formulations. The evaluation methods included wet-... More...