Explosives Museum Collection Growing
from the ISEE
Society members have begun to rally round the explosives museum collection created as one of the SEE Education Foundation programs. The industry and the Foundation owe a debt of gratitude and a big "Thank You" in response to the generosity of its volunteers and members More

A Scoop of Explosives, a Short Fuse and a Gamble with Death
from The Guardian – UK
Crude techniques for mining emeralds destroy assets and risk disaster, geologists warn. More

ODNR Opens Mine Safety Training Center in Cadiz
from Occupational Health & Safety Magazine
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources today is holding a ceremony to tighten the final screw and officially open its Mine Safety Training Center. The agency says the new facility, located at 43029 Industrial Park Road in Cadiz, Ohio, will provide life-saving training for the state's miners, local first-responders, and others who conduct business in and around mines. More

Mining: Mexican Make-Over
from Latin Business Chronicle
Foreign mining operations in Latin America can be reputational powder kegs unless companies work hard at building local community relations and goodwill. More

Davis Avenue Bridge Demolition Precautions Strict for Nearby Residents
from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
About 400 Brighton Heights residents will have to leave their homes, move their cars and remove any pets by 11 a.m. Wednesday while contractors use explosives to demolish an unstable bridge. More

Orica Earnings Soar but One-off Items Drag Down Profit
from The Herald Sun - Australia
Orica shares soared nearly 11 per cent yesterday after the explosives maker defied the mining downturn to post a better-than-expected half-year result. The world's largest explosives maker reported a 15 per cent jump in underlying earnings to $264.2 million for the six months ended March 31, flying in the face of the commodities slump that has forced resources companies to shut mines, halt expansions and shelve projects. More

Burrowing a Tunnel Under the Hudson River and into the Future
from The Star-Ledger
Sometime next month, the nation's biggest mass transit construction project in generations will begin, modestly, in North Bergen, where earth-moving machines will carve out an underpass beneath busy Routes 1&9. More

Titanic Effort to Uncover Resource
from The Advertiser via AdelaideNow
It will take five years of digging to remove more than two billion tonnes of rock and dirt, before BHP Billiton can even start mining the ore body at the Olympic Dam mine. More

Residents Fight Expansion of Limestone Quarry
from KFSM
A limestone quarry wants to triple in size, while residents say it could be devastating for the neighborhood. The Stephens Red Dirt pit, owned by the Rogers Group, wants to expand from 45 acres to 145 acres. More