 Your Foundation Donations at Work
from the ISEE
Congratulations to the SEE Education Foundation 2009 Annual Scholarship Awards Recipients! This year, 29 students are benefiting from the generosity of the commercial explosives industry. We are inspired by the Missouri University S&T grads now hard at work in our industry today because of the contributions made to our 22 Foundation scholarship funds. We salute the students from Missouri S&T, Virginia Tech, University of Kentucky, Montana Tech, Penn State, University of Arizona, New Mexico Tech and the University of Toronto. We are looking forward to having you work in our industry. More
 
Orica CEO Says Consumer Unit Spin Off Will Be Pursued
from Bloomberg
Orica Ltd., the world's largest industrial explosives maker, said it will pursue the shelved spinoff of its consumer products unit. "Strategically speaking that's still the right thing to do and we will, when the conditions are right," Chief Executive Officer Graeme Liebelt said at a lunch in Melbourne, Australia.
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Blast Blows Amite Bridge into River
from 2TheAdvocate
After a countdown, the superstructure of the 77-year-old U.S. 190 Bridge over the Amite River fell straight down and was enveloped in a cloud of dust. The roar of 125 pounds of explosives going off reached onlookers more than 1,000 feet away. The crowd watched as some 20 shaped charges sliced the span into five pieces that now must be plucked from the river.
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Forest Department in India to Crack Down on Illegal Quarrying
from Express Buzz
The Forest Department in India at last appears to have woken up to the criticism from various quarters that indiscriminate quarrying and mining activities in the forest region of Western Ghat range had led to massive landslide at several points all along the national highway during recent rains in Karwar taluk. The department has decided now to put a bar on these activities. More
Ammonia Provides the Platform for Sasol's Mining Explosives Business
from Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
As part of its coal-to-liquids (CTL) and gas-to-chemicals (GTC) processes, Sasol produces ammonia, the building block for ammonium nitrate, which is the raw material required for the production of Sasol's mining explosives.
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World Climate-change Forum May Touch on West Virginia Mine
from The Associated Press via Google
Environmental activists who want West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin to stop Massey Energy's blasting plans for the Coal River Mountain say the world is watching, and they plan to add pressure with a Google Earth tour created for a United Nations climate-change conference.
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Probe Into Explosives Haul Plagued by Lack of Coordination
from The Times of India
More than a year after the Surat incident in which 27 bombs were defused by Gujarat police in July last year, the probe into the source of detonators used in these bombs is still dragging on. It was alleged that an explosives manufacturing company in Rajasthan, in which the state government has a major stake, might have been the source of detonators as they had the company's label on them.
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Explosive Sight as Flats Fall
from The Scotsman
They dominated the Gracemount, Edinburgh, Scotland skyline for 47 years, but within just seconds, the towerblocks of Fala, Soutra and Garvald were reduced to rubble. Residents gathered to watch the imposing blocks of flats razed to the ground to make way for new homes in the area. More
Elkhorn Goldfields buys Montana Tunnels
from the Helena Independent Record
Denver-based Apollo Gold has struck a deal to sell its interest in the idle Montana Tunnels Mine near Jefferson City. Elkhorn Goldfields, a subsidiary of which already held a 50 percent interest in Montana Tunnels Mining, Inc., agreed to pay $9 million for the remainder of Apollo's assets, including its milling facility.
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FBI, ATF Squabble Over Explosives Investigations
from Reuters
Despite growing cooperation between U.S. law enforcement agencies since the Sept. 11 attacks, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are still fighting over crimes involving explosives, said a new report released.
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Explosives Trigger Big Blast: Crews Detonate Bomb Dropped at Hill
from Deseret News
Explosives and emergency-management teams at Hill Air Force Base detonated an unexploded bomb in a remote area of the base. The Mark-82 general-purpose bomb was one of two jettisoned from an F-16 that experienced an in-flight emergency on takeoff. Air Force officials said the pilot followed emergency procedures, which included cutting loose the external fuel tanks and the two unarmed Mk-82s from beneath the fighter plane. He was then able to land safely on base.
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