ISEE Student Industry Connection back by popular demand
ISEE
The ISEE Education Committee is pleased to announce that the Student Industry Connection is back again at the 2010 Annual Conference. This mentoring program designed especially for students at all levels in their education tracks presents real life tools to help identify career development strategies. The program is here to provide opportunities to meet and greet industry members whose careers are industry success stories. Join Rene "Moose" Morin, Explotech Engineering, LTD; Bill Bauer, MREL and Joe Kennan, Orica on Sunday, Feb. 7th to hear first hand presentations from the world of commercial explosives.More

ATF publishes 2009 list of explosive materials subject to law
ATF
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) published a notice in the Federal Register containing the list of 237 explosive materials that are subject to federal law and implementing regulations. This list covers not only explosives, but also blasting agents and detonators, all of which are defined as explosive materials in the United States Code chapter regulating the importation, manufacture, distribution, receipt and storage of explosive materials. The Department of Justice must publish and revise the explosives list annually, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 841.More

Scientists say mountaintop mining should be stopped
The Washington Post
Mountaintop coal mining -- in which Appalachian peaks are blasted off and stream valleys buried under tons of rubble -- is so destructive that the government should stop giving out new permits to do it, a group of scientists said in a recent report.More

Controlled blasting begins at World Trade Center construction site
DNAinfo
The Office of Emergency Management released an e-mail notifying lower Manhattan residents about controlled blasting that will be take place at Ground Zero. The blasting will continue over the next three months as part of the transportation hub construction at the World Trade Center construction site.More

Company's blasting request denied by province
The Daily Gleaner
New Brunswick's Environment Department has refused to issue an approval for blasting at a stone quarry owned by Percy Jones & Sons Ltd. at 620 Royal Rd in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. The company, which purchased the quarry in 1998, had applied to the provincial government for approval to start working the quarry, including blasting to extract fresh aggregate from the site below Royal Road.More

New scanners use terahertz waves
UPI
Scanners using terahertz waves would ensure privacy during security screenings but detect explosives or other weapons, engineers in Michigan said. Terahertz waves can detect the chemical signature of explosives and the metal and plastic in guns, said engineers at Advanced Photonix Inc., an Ann Arbor firm working on new identification technology.More

Loughborough scientist's camera can spot traces of explosive
Leicester Mercury
A scientist has invented a camera which he says will detect traces of explosives on terrorists trying to evade airport security checks. Professor John Tyrer of Loughborough University in Leicestershire, U.K., believes his system is a way to beef up safety measures and avoid long delays for passengers. More

Punjab bans use, transportation of explosives
The Daily Times - Pakistan
The Punjab government has banned manufacture, possession, use, sale and transportation of all explosives in the province and all licenses in this regard have been suspended with immediate effect.More

First gold exports from Centamin's 4 million ton/year Sukari gold mine
Mineweb
Gold mining explorer, and now producer straight into the mid-tier gold miner range, Centamin Egypt has reported the commencement of gold exports from the Sukari mine in Egypt's eastern desert and the achievement of mill design throughput at a rate of 4 million tons a year.More

Official: 12 people killed in China mine fire
USA Today
A fire in a southeastern China coal mine trapped and killed 12 workers, an official said, in the latest fatal accident for China's mining industry, the deadliest in the world. The chief of the coal mine management section in Xinyu city, Jiangxi province, said the bodies were being removed from the Miaoshang mine.More