THURSDAY JANUARY 25, 2023 |
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| 9:30am-10:15am |
Use of a Scaled Concrete Model to Determine the Origins of Air Overpressure
Worsey-Silvaequation for modeling fragmentation caused by row timing
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| 10:30am-11:50am |
Blasting Engineers/Blasting Consultants and Blasters-in-Charge – Combat or Cooperation
Working with "new media" from insights on "The Detonators" series to video depositions for forcourt cases.
Electronic Detonators. CommercialExplosive Demolition Applications.
Nitroglycerin Overexposure
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| 10:30am-11:50am |
Review of flyrock incidents insurface mining and the limitations of current predictive models
Breaking the Nitrate Based Explosives Greenhouse – The Dawn of Production Scale Hydrogen Peroxide Emulsion (HPE) for Industrial Blasting
Sustainable productivity in the exploitation processes of a mining site adjacent to communities
Blasting Near Communities: A review of new techniques, technologies, and monitoring tools to minimize the environmental impact generated by blasting.
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| 1:30pm-2:50pm |
HMX Based Electronic Initiation System for Blasting in High Temperature Ground and/or Extremely Reactive Ground
Optimization of Blind Ascending Raise in Multiple Blasting Events
Dust Control in the Environment Using New Technologies and Blasting Techniques.
Vibration Control In Open Cut Mine Through Pre-Loading Applying Wireless Detonators
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| 1:30pm-2:50pm |
Flyrock Mitigation Through the Useof Drones in Surface Quarry Blasting
Quantifying NOx Fume Events in Blasting using Drones: Improving Environmental Performance and Public Perception.
Use of Exclusion Zone modeling forthe Optimization of Blasting Evacuation Areas
SmokeFCM: Segmentation of Quarry Blast Smoke Plumes using Self-Adaptive Weighted Fuzzy C-Means
*Authors listed are the primary authors who submitted each paper.* |
FRIDAY JANUARY 26, 2024 |
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| 8:15am-10:00am |
Prototype of MEMS-based accelerometric network for continuous monitoring of blasting efficiency and seismic velocities
Data Driven Improvement of Active Rockburst Prevention in Polish Underground Copper Mines
Vibration impact reduction to the community
Experimental method to evaluate the vibrational behavior of low energy explosives and their impact on slope damage control.
Application, monitoring, and control of vibrations induced by underground rock blasting using a near-field methodology.
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| 8:15am-10:00am |
Shock and Transient Gas Pressure Damage to Electronic Detonators
Cold Detonation Physics: A New Field of Non-Toxic Nitrogen-Free Explosives
Pyrotechnic Mortar Pressure and Exit Velocity Study
Using a Ballistic Pendulum as a simple alternative to the Ballistic Mortar for measuring TNT Equivalencies
Advanced techniques using microscopy to quickly assess emulsion quality and stability.
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| 10:30am-11:50am |
Reduced Blast Spillover Program Creation by Changing Blast Patterns and Mine Designs
Modeling Strains in Production Blasts for Efficiency Improvements
Finite Element Modelling for Predicting Backbreak in Rock Blasting Operations.
GEM (Geologic Element Motion) Blast Heave Modeling Sensitivity Studies of Explosive Formulations and Energy Partitioning as well as Particle Sizes and Shapes
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| 10:30am-11:50am |
Ore guiding in underground mining from MWD data using machine learning clustering techniques
Modern Underground Raise and Slot Design
Stope performance optimisation through the introduction of new underground bulk explosives technology.
Numerical investigation of impact of misfires and out-of-sequence delays on fragmentation and gravity flow in SLC
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| 1:30pm-2:50pm |
Geomechanical differentiation of cratering mechanisms and burden dependency investigated through single hole blast tests.
Application of New Technologies for Particle Size Distribution Data Acquisition using FrontEnd Loaders
Enhancing Blast Performance Evaluation through 3D Muckpile Fragmentation Analysis: Overcoming Surface-Based Limitations
Blasting Optimization Using Autonomous Fragmentation Monitoring System
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| 1:30pm-2:50pm |
Increased Blasting Efficiency Through Operational and Geological Controls on Ore Particle Size
Slope stability’s control for designing and execution of massive open pit blasting
Quantifying shovel performance through blast pattern boundaries
A powder factor build-up model to analyze most common powder factor influencing factors at the Serra Sul mine
*Authors listed are the primary authors who submitted each paper.* |
SATURDAY JANUARY 27, 2024 |
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| 8:15am-9:40am |
Use of Electronic detonators to control blast vibrations– a cautionary tale
Vibration Monitoring Standards Connected to the use ofExplosives in Different Countries, Part III Monitoring
Close-in Pipeline TrenchBlasting – Why PipeBlast Does Not Work
A Full-Field solution topredict vibrations in the presence of a free surface
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| 8:15am-9:40am |
Study of Ultrafine Controls in Blasting
The environmental impact of AN prills on emulsion explosives
Detonation ofNon-Electric Initiation Systems Across an Air Gap
Aquarium tests to studythe detonation behaviour of a non-ideal explosive
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| 10:30am-11:50am |
Implementation of a Real-Time Ore Tracking System from Mine to Plant
Blast design optimization system to improve mining downstream operations by adapting the explosive energy tothe rock mass based on drill monitoring data.
Blasting fragmentation model to increase mill productivity and optimize resources based on the Mine to Mill methodology.
The Smart Application of Explosives for Drill to Mill (D2M) Optimization
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| 10:30am-11:50am |
Elevated Temperature and Reactive Ground Testing Best Practices
The Feasibility of Water-Cased Kicker Charges with Pentolite Stingers as a Replacement for Dynamite in Demolition
Blasting for Installation of one ofthe World’s Largest In-Pit Crushers at an Open Cut Copper Mine
Challenges and Lessons Learned fromthe Kentucky Lock Project
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