Cemex to Restart Rock Crusher in New Mexico
from Aggregate Research
The state last week gave the go-ahead to the Mexican-based cement company Cemex to reopen a rock-crushing plant near Radium Springs. The New Mexico Environment Department on Thursday OK'd an air quality permit for the crusher to operate at a 121-acre rock quarry east of Interstate 25. More

Dredging Off Staten Island Will Be A Lot Quieter
from Staten Island Advance
Drills and explosives still will be used to deepen New York Harbor and part of the Kill van Kull, but dredgers will use a gentler hand than in the past when blasting gets under way in two months. More

Demolition Woman
from the Evening Post – UK
There aren't many workplaces left that feel like an exclusively male domain. But you still don't see many women in the demolition industry. It seems, when it comes to swinging balls of steel and knocking down buildings, it's a man's world. In fact, Bristol's Sharon Haskell believes she's one of only two female demolition workers in the country. More

Rethinking Explosives to Power Tools, Implode Tumors, and Clear Arteries
from ZDNet
For most, explosive detonations illicit visions of building demolition and Mythbusters-style car bombs. But in a keynote at ETech, Dr. Christa Hockensmith from the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (EMRTC), explained new creative applications that are, both, in research and “untried, untested, unrealized.” More

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Dogs to Play Crucial Role in Country's Security
from the Deccan Herald – India
In an apparent endorsement of the crucial role being assigned to the training of dogs for aiding the security forces, the Union Home Ministry has for the first time put a serving army officer in charge of the veterinary cadre of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP). The ITBP has under its aegis the premier National Training Centre for Dogs (NTCD) at Bhanu in Haryana. The NTCD is involved in training dog squads for tracking explosives, narcotics, patrolling and search and rescue operations. More

Smiths Detection Awarded $2 Million TSA Contract for Hand-Held Explosives Detection Systems
from Homeland Security Today
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has given a $2 million order to Smiths Detection, Pine Brook, NJ, a security company, for SABRE 4000 hand-held trace explosives detectors. More

Police Arrest Illegal Gold Miners
from The Times – South Africa
Two illegal miners died, four were wounded and 113 arrested in an operation to clear them out old mine shafts in the Free State Goldfields. Superintendent Motantsi Makhele said that when illegal miners tossed homemade explosive devices at the police and booby-trapped shafts in their attempts to escape, police fired back. More

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