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ISEE Blasters Training Seminar features Best in the Business ISEE Share     
The one day ISEE's Blasters Training Seminar is designed for blasters by the best in the business. Featured presentations will include: "Liability and Risk in Blasting", by Stuart Brashear, Dyno Nobel; "ATF Regulations for Blasters", by William O'Brien, ATF; "Quarry Blasting - If You Fail to Plan, You Plan to Fail", by Dean Wiegand,
Martin Marietta; "Signature Analysis and Vibration Control", by John Babcock, South Technical Services; "Quarry Blasting Expectations", by Nick Lewis, Vulcan Materials; "Avalanche Blasting", by Everett Clausen, CIL Orion; "Blasting Solutions Software", by Cameron McKenzie, Blastechnology and "Explosives Transport and Regulations in the USA", by Ben Barrett, DG Advisor. More
 Champlain Bridge blasting contracted Burlington Free Press Share
An Idaho company has won the bid to blow up the Lake Champlain Bridge, an event that state officials expect will attract a crowd of onlookers. Advanced Explosives Demolition Inc. of Coeur D'Alene will be paid $188,000 for the demolition work, state Agency of Transportation spokesman John Zicconi said. That does not include collection of debris, which is the responsibility of the main contractor, Harrison & Burrowes Bridge Constructors Inc., he said. More Omnia optimistic about future of its mining division despite 11 percent loss Creamer Media's Mining Weekly Share
JSE-listed Omnia's mining division reported a loss of 11 percent for the half year ended September 2009 compared with the previous half year's revenue, but is far from being discouraged and expects positive growth for this division in the coming months. More BK Quarry in record blasts Stabroek News Share
Despite rainy weather, three earth-shaking blasts saw 100,000 tons of rock tumbling down as construction material supplier, BK Quarry, showcased the company's capabilities at its Teperu/Itabu, Mazaruni River location in Guyana. More Arsenal looking to defuse an explosive situation The Star-Ledger Share
More than 80 years after a catastrophic explosion at Picatinny Arsenal, the Army Corps of Engineers believes there may still be live shells on adjacent private property. Today, the federal agency is scheduled to begin a project to find and remove any of those explosives, working on the western border of the Tilcon stone quarry, near Mount Hope Road in Rockaway Township, N.J. More
Exploding chewing gum kills student ABC News Share
A Ukrainian man's jaw was blown off after he laced his chewing gum with an unknown substance, local authorities in the country's Sumy region said of the man who died from his injuries. A chemistry student at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute who was identified only by his first name Vladimir liked to chew gum and dip it in citric acid, his family said. More Officials implode South Padre Island, Texas, tower The Monitor Share
With the push of a plunger, Ocean Tower was reduced to a pile of rubble. Blowing up the leaning 31-story, 55,000-ton, reinforced concrete building took 1,550 pounds of explosives, a plunger like the one Wile E. Coyote uses in the Looney Tunes cartoons, and 12 1/2 seconds. Almost precisely at 9:07 a.m., Antun Domit, Ocean Tower's McAllen-based owner and developer, pushed down on the ceremonial detonator. More FBI heats up lessons in explosives during Edmond training NewsOK.com Share
A retired FBI agent, bureau explosives experts and local law enforcement members spent an afternoon blowing stuff up at an Edmond, Okla., police shooting range – but it was all for educational purposes. More A day in the life of LAPD Bomb Squad ABC News Share
On a recent day the Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad answered what they thought would be a routine call: a woman showing up at a fire station with boxes of what she thought were only fireworks. More An explosive event for Philadelphia ARTINFO Share
On Friday afternoon, a crowd gathered at the top of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's iconic steps in the frigid cold to witness an "explosion event" and meditation on the passing of time and renewal by Chinese artist Cai Guo Qiang. Visitors were greeted by a sort of scaffolding – almost as tall as the front of the Greek Revival style museum – supporting a metal outline of a lotus flower lined with gunpowder. More |
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