ATF announces final rule on storage of shock tube
from GPO
This document contains a correction to final regulations (TD 9475) that were published in the Federal Register on Friday, Dec. 18, 2009 (74 FR 67053) providing guidance regarding the qualification of certain transactions as reorganizations described in section 368(a)(1)(D) where no stock and/or securities of the acquiring corporation is issued and distributed in the transaction.  More
 

Explosives industry able to consolidate during downturn
from Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
Continued demand for explosives for use in daily mining activities has
buoyed the supply market for the product despite the global financial downturn, says explosives supplier BME divisional MD Francois Hay.   More
 

Building collapses in its entirety
from Aggregate Research
The development, known as "Lotus Riverside," had a total of 629 units, 489 of which had been sold. The assets of the project's developer, Shanghai Meidu Property Development Co., were frozen and the city officials said the developer's ability to repay homebuyers was secure, according to a statement on the municipal government’s Web site. The disaster revealed some uncomfortable facts about lax construction practices in China, where buildings are put up in a hurry by largely unskilled migrant workers, and developers may be tempted to take shortcuts. Click here for The Telegraph report of the story.   More
 

Perchlorate agreement reached
from Wicked Local
For years, an underground plume of perchlorate has been advancing silently toward Westford's well water like some monster from a Japanese horror movie. Now, a recent legal agreement may help clean up the polluted water. The town of Westford and Maine Drilling and Blasting have agreed to a settlement in connection with the release of perchlorate from the Town's Highway Garage site, according to a statement released by the town.  More
 

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Imerys Marble fields questions on limestone quarry
from Green Valley News
What's that white stuff on the mountain in the Santa Ritas anyway? The question that so many locals and visitors ask was answered when Javier Blanco, plant manager at Imerys Marble Inc. in Sahuarita, Ariz., addressed the Green Valley Forum at the East Center.  More
 

Moutaintop Mining: A Coal Baron debates a Kennedy
from Yahoo! News
The real audience for the debate between coal baron Don Blankenship and conservationist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was not the hundreds who packed the audience at the University of Charleston. Those people -- coal miners and environmentalists, politicians and local residents -- heard nothing new in Kennedy's denunciation of mountaintop removal mining nor in Blankenship's defense of the practice.  More
 

RCMP can't confirm missing explosive chemical found
from The Windsor Star
With less than a month until the world's eyes are on B.C., Mounties are still trying to account for missing ammonium nitrate. Two tons of the chemical compound, which has been used in several terrorist bombings, was originally reported missing to the RCMP on Jan. 6.  More
 

Mine will be here for years
from The Carmi Times
Members of the Carmi Rotary Club got an insider's "view" of the Pattiki coal mine at Epworth, Ill., when they gathered at Tequila's for their noon meeting. And they learned that the mine, which employs more than 300 people, has "operational plans" for at least another 18 years. Program chairman Don Drone introduced Alan Saunders of the mine staff, and he began the program with a little history about the mine.  More
 

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Nevada coalition wants tax hike on mining industry
from ABC News
Conservationists, labor leaders and others launched a petition drive to raise taxes on Nevada's mining industry, claiming it doesn't pay its fair share as the state faces a budget crisis despite being the nation's biggest gold producer. Backers of the proposal say it if had been in place in 2008, the mining industry would have paid an estimated $284 million in taxes on $5.7 billion worth of mineral production to state and county governments -- more than triple what they paid.  More
 

Security and counterterrorism
from The Nation - Pakistan
Presently there is no central database, or central security check, on those who purchase small amounts of explosives, and for what purpose, leaving open the possibility of single or multiple purchases by unlawful elements.  More
 

Blast from the past: Old but live grenade found
from The News-Gazette
James Baskis was hoping what he found in one of Champaign, Ill.'s stately old homes morning wasn't what he thought it might be. Turned out it was. "I could see the writing, and I saw it was German. I asked my dad if he knew what it was. I was hoping it wasn't a grenade. I handed it to him," said the trusting son, 22.  More