AUTOMATED SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES FOR STORING, TRANSPORTING, DISPENSING, AND TRACKING WIRELESS INITIATION DEVICE COMPONENTS CONFIGURABLE FOR INITIATING EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL COMPOSITIONS
Disclosed is a system that includes a magazine. The magazine is configured for holding and dispensing initiation devices or initiation device components having respective non-contact readable identification (ID) codes. The magazine includes one or more initiation device tracking unit(s) configured for reading the non-contact codes of the initiation devices or initiation device components for tracking the initiation devices or the initiation device components.
F42D 1/10 - Feeding explosives in granular or slurry formFeeding explosives by pneumatic or hydraulic pressure
F42D 1/22 - Means for holding or positioning blasting cartridges or tamping cartridges in boreholes
G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensingMethods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation
G06K 19/07 - Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards with integrated circuit chips
A wireless initiation device comprises a power source, a processing module, a first housing and an initiation unit. The processing module processes wireless electromagnetic communications signals received by an electromagnetic receiver system associated with the processing module. The wireless electromagnetic communications signals includes a wireless electromagnetic communications signal representative of a FIRE command. The processing module is configured to generate an initiation signal upon receipt of the FIRE command. At least one of the power source and the processing module is disposed in the first housing, and the first housing has a first connector. The initiation unit has a second housing within which is disposed an initiation module that is configured to discharge initiation energy sufficient to initiate an explosive charge associated with the device. The initiation module is connected to, or connectable with, the processing module such that initiation module can receive an initiation signal from the processing module. The initiation unit also has a second connector that is configured to mate with the first connector, thereby connecting the first and second housings. The initiation module is configured to execute a sequence upon receipt of the initiation signal, the sequence resulting in discharge of initiation energy from the initiation unit.
A magnetic induction antenna system, adapted to wirelessly transmit and/or receive MI signals through solid material, comprising an antenna cable adapted to wirelessly transmit MI downlink signals and/or wirelessly receive MI uplink signals, wherein the antenna cable forms a MI loop antenna with a selected antenna pattern that corresponds to locations of wireless devices, and the MI loop antenna includes a main conductive loop around the locations, and a conductive sub-loop within, or forming a portion of, the main conductive loop, arranged around a selected sub-set of the locations such that the antenna pattern is enhanced relative to the main conductive loop by the or each conductive sub- loop at the selected sub-set of the locations.
F42D 3/04 - Particular applications of blasting techniques for rock blasting
H01Q 1/04 - Adaptation for subterranean or subaqueous use
H01Q 7/00 - Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop
H04B 13/02 - Transmission systems in which the medium consists of the earth or a large mass of water thereon, e.g. earth telegraphy
A process for remote localization of an object including: receiving/determining two or more measurements of magnetic fields using at least one magnetometer when the magnetic fields are generated by at least one magnetic field source from two or more respective source locations, when the or each magnetic field source is remote from the or each magnetometer which is in/on an opaque medium; receiving/determining the two or more respective source locations of the magnetic field source in three orthogonal dimensions by determining locations of the magnetic field source when the magnetic field measurements are/were determined; and numerically estimating a location of the magnetometer in three orthogonal dimensions using: the two or more magnetic field measurements; the two or more respective source locations; and a mathematical model representing a magnetic dipole of the magnetic field source.
G01V 3/08 - Electric or magnetic prospecting or detectingMeasuring magnetic field characteristics of the earth, e.g. declination or deviation operating with magnetic or electric fields produced or modified by objects or geological structures or by detecting devices
A63B 29/02 - Mountain guy-ropes or accessories, e.g. avalanche ropesMeans for indicating the location of accidentally buried, e.g. snow-buried, persons
E21B 41/00 - Equipment or details not covered by groups
E21F 17/18 - Special adaptations of signalling or alarm devices
G01R 33/02 - Measuring direction or magnitude of magnetic fields or magnetic flux
G01R 33/12 - Measuring magnetic properties of articles or specimens of solids or fluids
G01S 1/08 - Systems for determining direction or position line
G01S 1/70 - Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmittersReceivers co-operating therewith using electromagnetic waves other than radio waves
G01V 1/00 - SeismologySeismic or acoustic prospecting or detecting
G01V 1/18 - Receiving elements, e.g. seismometer, geophone
G01V 3/10 - Electric or magnetic prospecting or detectingMeasuring magnetic field characteristics of the earth, e.g. declination or deviation operating with magnetic or electric fields produced or modified by objects or geological structures or by detecting devices using induction coils
A method for predicting solid material dislodgement due to explosive blasting, the method including: representing pre-blast solid material with a set of discrete particles, each with a 3D location and one or more mechanical properties of the solid material at that 3D location before the explosive blasting; representing at least one explosive blast with a blast time and a set of explosive particles, each with a 3D blast location in the pre-blast solid material and an initial internal energy; repeatedly, for a plurality of time steps, defining a 3D grid surrounding the discrete particles (e.g., plus two empty grid cells in each direction), and numerically determining/calculating updated velocities and updated 3D locations of the discrete particles based on the mechanical properties and the 3D locations, using the 3D grid; for at least one of the time steps corresponding to the or each blast time, including the explosive particles with the discrete particles to numerically determine the velocities and updated 3D locations of the discrete particles, and numerically determining/calculating the updated velocities and the updated 3D locations at the time steps after the or each blast time using the initial internal energies; and determining post-blast locations of the solid material using the repeatedly updated 3D positions of the discrete particles and the pre- blast solid properties of those discrete particles.
A system/apparatus including: at least one control system or control unit configured for changing a concentration/flow rate of a set of sensitizing agents for an explosive composition, wherein the sensitizing agents are introduced at or into at least one portion of an explosive composition loading system or apparatus in a manner that facilitates or enables generation of two or more explosive compositions having at least one density profile/distribution, wherein the changing of the concentration/flow rate provides the sensitizing agents with a concentration profile/distribution within and along a conduit/hose during flow of the explosive compositions toward and prior to the explosive compositions reaching a distal portion of the conduit/hose that is fluidically coupled to an outlet structure, wherein the concentration profile/distribution corresponds to the density profile/distribution.
A system, including for automatically detecting, monitoring and/or controlling loading of explosive material in a borehole during commercial blasting operations, including: a sensor component with a sensor element including at least one sensor configured to automatically determine a depth of the sensor element in fluid explosive material in a borehole; and a depth component configured to automatically determine a relative depth of the sensor element in the borehole relative to a fluid outlet while the fluid outlet is loading the fluid explosive material in the borehole.
E21B 47/09 - Locating or determining the position of objects in boreholes or wellsIdentifying the free or blocked portions of pipes
F42D 1/10 - Feeding explosives in granular or slurry formFeeding explosives by pneumatic or hydraulic pressure
G01F 23/14 - Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm by measurement of pressure
8.
Deployment Of Quasi-Planar Shock Wave Generators In Association With Seismic Exploration
Disclosed is a geophysical or seismic exploration system. The system comprises a set of explosive device magazines configured for carrying a plurality of explosive device components, wherein the explosive device components are configurable to form individual explosive devices, and wherein each explosive device carries a set of explosive compositions and is configured for collimating an explosive shock wave produced thereby into a quasi-planar shock wave output from a distal end of the explosive device to produce a geophysical or seismic exploration wave. The system also includes a set of unmanned explosive device deployment support vehicles, wherein each unmanned explosive device deployment support vehicle comprises an aerial or land-based unmanned vehicle configured for carrying an explosive device magazine and delivering the explosive device magazine to a first in-field location at which each explosive device is deployable for carrying out a geophysical or seismic exploration operation.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
13 - Firearms; explosives
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Scientific apparatus, namely, monitoring, measuring,
signalling, sensing or checking instruments, namely,
electronic devices for signal or data acquisition, recording
and transmitting to estimate, determine, check for, record,
indicate and/or report on ground, rock, or geological
material or formation characteristics or characteristics of
substances carried therein or characteristics of structures
produced therefrom, including geological or geophysical
characteristics, and/or estimate, determine, check for,
record, indicate, and report on status, state, or
performance of sensing or drilling equipment for ground,
rock, or geological materials or formations or structures
produced therefrom, and in relation to the foregoing, data
recording apparatus, namely, computers; electric or
electronic ignitors for igniting explosives at a distance or
remotely; electronic hardware for blast programming of
explosives; computer peripheral devices, namely, monitors,
printers, keyboards, hard disc drives, blank CDs, blank
DVDs, removable memory devices including flash drives and CD
and DVD players, and computer modems; computer software,
namely, computer operating software; communications
software, namely, communication software for connecting
local area networks, wide area networks, and global computer
networks; data management systems comprised of computer
hardware and software for managing, recording, reporting,
retrieval, storage, and analysis of data and information;
computer software facilitating data processing and analysis;
electronic data processing apparatus, including for
acquiring data, and including Internet of Things (IoT)
devices, all of the aforementioned for use in the mining,
quarrying, construction, and geological or geophysical
exploration industries. Explosives including bulk and packaged explosives and
explosives compositions for use in mining, construction,
excavation and related industries; non-electric explosives
initiators, detonators and blast programming equipment;
explosives accessories including shockwave conductors, shock
tubing, detonating caps, connecting blocks, primers and
fuses. Provision of engineering services, and engineering surveying
to the mining, quarrying, construction, and geological or
geophysical exploration industries and to users of
monitoring, sensing or measurement devices, drilling
equipment and/or explosives in such industries; technical
support services being troubleshooting provided to users of
computer systems to detect breakdowns and provided to users
of monitoring, sensing or measurement devices, drilling
equipment and explosives; engineering services being
recording and assessment of signals or data relating to
ground, rock, or geological material or formation
characteristics or characteristics of substances carried
therein or characteristics of structures produced therefrom,
including geological or geophysical characteristics, and/or
signals or data relating to status, state, or performance of
monitoring, sensing or drilling equipment for ground, rock,
or geological materials or formations or structures produced
therefrom; scientific research by recording and assessment
of explosive blast related information including the
formulation, supply, and delivery of explosives, explosives
compositions, and explosives accessories and including
designing and/or programming software; explosive blast
design; conducting blast site evaluations and surveys,
including pre-blast site evaluations and surveys and
post-blast site evaluations and surveys, and analysing blast
site evaluation and blast site survey data; engineering
project management; engineering risk analysis; providing
online non-downloadable software, software as a service for
use in relation to the aforesaid; all the aforesaid provided
to the mining, quarrying, construction, and geological or
geophysical exploration industries and to users of sensing
or drilling equipment and/or explosives in such industries.
10.
SIGNALLING/COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEVICES
A magnetic induction (MI) wireless communications device including: an electrical power source; an electronic control unit powered by the power source; an electrical boost converter powered by the power source and controlled by the control unit for boosting an output voltage of the power source to a boosted voltage that is higher than the output voltage; an electrical energy storage powered by the boost converter and separate from the power source, and configured for storing energy from the boost converter at the boosted voltage; a transmit antenna element configured to transmit wireless signals through the earth using MI from in the hole using the stored energy from the electrical energy storage; and a switching element controlled by the control unit and configured to release the stored energy from the energy storage into the transmit antenna element when controlled by the control unit.
A commercial blasting system includes a central controller configured to send blasting command instructions for two or more electronic blasting devices. The electronic blasting devices include a Wireless Electronic Blasting device and a wired Electronic Blasting System device. The system includes: a remote blaster configured to receive the blasting command instructions for the EBS device, and configured to send a corresponding blasting command to the EBS device via wires/cables; and an antenna system configured to receive the blasting command instructions for the WEB device, and to send a corresponding blasting command to the WEB device via magnetic induction signals. The remote blaster is configured to send handshake messages to the controller indicating that the EBS device is programmed to synchronize sending a FIRE command for the EBS device with sending a FIRE command for the WEB device.
G08C 17/04 - Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link using magnetically coupled devices
H01Q 7/00 - Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop
An access control system for electronic blasting including a physical remote registration device configured to communicatively connect to a central controller and to a plurality of remote blasters. The central controller is configured to provide a public-private asymmetric encryption key pair with a public key and a private key, and to write the public key to the remote registration device when communicatively connected to the controller. Each remote blaster is configured to read the public key from the remote registration device when the remote registration device is communicatively connected. Each remote blaster and the central controller are configured to communicate with each other via a data network using the key pair.
H04L 9/30 - Public key, i.e. encryption algorithm being computationally infeasible to invert and users' encryption keys not requiring secrecy
H04L 67/12 - Protocols specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
H04Q 9/00 - Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom
H04W 4/80 - Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
Disclosed is a system for assisting blasting. The system includes at least one wireless blasting-related device that is deployable or deployed proximate to or within a portion of physical media intended to be blasted as part of a commercial blasting operation. The blasting-related device includes a device-based magnetic induction (MI) signal receiver with a magnetometer configured for through the earth (TTE) MI communication, and the blasting-related device includes a device-based MI signal source with a device-based antenna configured for TTE MI communication. The device-based MI signal source is configured to communicate with a vehicle-based MI signal receiver in a blast support vehicle that includes a set of vehicle-based magnetometers.
A system including a range extension system for extending a range of magnetic induction (MI) signals along a pathway for commercial/civil blasting operations that use a wireless blasting-related device, the range extension system including an elongated element configured to extend the range of the MI signals along the pathway.
The safety systems for commercial blasting operations include wireless transmitter system(s) configured to send command signals wirelessly to wireless devices that are configured for wireless electronic blasting (web). The system also includes disable antenna(s) that define deactivation zone(s): vehicle/personnel presence detector system(s) including detectors that define detection zone(s), and/or RFID scanner system(s) with reader antennas that defined scanner zone(s); and a safety control system in electronic communication with the wireless transmitter system(s), and the vehicle/personnel presence detector systems and/or the RFID scanner systems, wherein the safety control system is configured to control the wireless transmitter systems to send wireless disable command(s) to disable the wireless devices that are within the deactivation zones, and/or to control alarm system(s) to generate alarms, in response to a vehicle/person being detected in the detection zones and/or a wireless device being detected in the scanner zones.
G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensingMethods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation
G08B 21/02 - Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
G08B 21/22 - Status alarms responsive to presence or absence of persons
G08B 25/10 - Alarm systems in which the location of the alarm condition is signalled to a central station, e.g. fire or police telegraphic systems characterised by the transmission medium using wireless transmission systems
16.
SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING EXPLOSIVE COMPOSITIONS INTO BOREHOLES
Methods of charging boreholes for commercial blasting including charging a borehole with an explosive composition. This involves dispensing the explosive composition from an outlet structure in the borehole. While charging the borehole, the fill rate of the explosive composition into the borehole is selectively varied to provide at least one physical pattern in the explosive composition that includes two or more cavities. Selectively varying the fill rate selectively controls sizes and locations of the two or more cavities.
The present invention relates to a borehole resident electronic device for use in a blasting operation, the device comprising a container in which is located one or more electronic components, the container having a wall structure comprising a fibre-reinforced composite thermoset resin layer positioned to shield the one or more electronic components from an explosive shockwave generated during the blasting operation and remote from the device, wherein the fibre is in a form selected from unidirectional fibre, woven fibre, wound fibre, nonwoven fibre, and combinations thereof.
A system for determining locations of blast fragments, the system comprising: a three-dimensional (3D) imaging system mounted on an excavation device and configured for viewing a portion of a pile of blast fragments and configured for capturing at least one image of the viewed portion of the pile of blast fragments; a positioning system configured for providing a location and heading of the excavation device; a processor configured to execute program instructions to perform image processing operations upon the images of the viewed portion of the pile of blast fragments, to: identify a reference location in the viewed portion of the pile of blast fragments; determine the reference location in a geographic coordinate system; identify a plurality of individual blast fragments in the viewed portion of the pile of blast fragments; and determine a distinct geographic coordinate corresponding to each of the plurality of individual blast fragments.
E21C 35/06 - Equipment for positioning the whole machine in relation to its sub-structure
E21C 35/20 - General features of equipment for removal of chippings, e.g. for loading on conveyor
G01B 11/02 - Measuring arrangements characterised by the use of optical techniques for measuring length, width, or thickness
G01S 19/48 - Determining position by combining or switching between position solutions derived from the satellite radio beacon positioning system and position solutions derived from a further system
H04N 13/133 - Equalising the characteristics of different image components, e.g. their average brightness or colour balance
H04N 13/239 - Image signal generators using stereoscopic image cameras using two 2D image sensors having a relative position equal to or related to the interocular distance
A process for tracking material dislodged during blasting of a portion of a mine site, the process comprising: obtaining two or more volumetric models of the portion of the mine site over a period of time, wherein the volumetric models encompass a period during which the portion of the mine site is in operation, including at least a first point in time before at least one blast and a second point in time after at least one blast; and generating a 3D model by overlaying and merging the two or more volumetric models, wherein the model is representative of the portion of the mine site over the period of time.
Described herein is an electronic device having an antenna that detects or generates a magnetic field, the antenna defining a cavity within which is located at least part of one or more electronic components, wherein within the cavity and in between the antenna and the at least part of the one or more electronic components is located a magnetic field permeable composite, the magnetic field permeable composite comprising a binder material and particulate magnetisable material.
H01Q 7/06 - Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop with core of ferromagnetic material
G01R 33/00 - Arrangements or instruments for measuring magnetic variables
H01F 1/10 - Magnets or magnetic bodies characterised by the magnetic materials thereforSelection of materials for their magnetic properties of inorganic materials characterised by their coercivity of hard-magnetic materials non-metallic substances, e.g. ferrites
H01F 1/34 - Magnets or magnetic bodies characterised by the magnetic materials thereforSelection of materials for their magnetic properties of inorganic materials characterised by their coercivity of soft-magnetic materials non-metallic substances, e.g. ferrites
H01F 27/34 - Special means for preventing or reducing unwanted electric or magnetic effects, e.g. no-load losses, reactive currents, harmonics, oscillations, leakage fields
H01F 27/36 - Electric or magnetic shields or screens
H01F 41/02 - Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing or assembling magnets, inductances or transformersApparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing materials characterised by their magnetic properties for manufacturing cores, coils or magnets
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
13 - Firearms; explosives
Goods & Services
Devices for sensing properties of or testing electric or
electronic detonators and their components, devices for
logging the encoded identification of electric or electronic
detonators and their components; devices for logging the
position of electric or electronic detonators and their
components; devices for programming electronic detonators;
devices for transmitting signals to initiate a firing
sequence in electric or electronic detonators; computer
operating software for the use and operation of testing,
logging, connecting, transmitting and initiating devices
including electric or electronic detonators used in
programming commercial blasts and explosions; all
aforementioned goods for use in the mining, construction and
excavation industries. Explosives and explosives compositions for use in mining,
construction, excavation, road-making and related
industries; primers for explosives; explosive initiation
devices, namely, non-electric and electric initiation
devices and electronic detonators for use in mining,
construction, excavation, and related industries; commercial
explosives initiation accessories including shockwave
conductors, shock tubing, detonator caps, connecting blocks,
primers, and fuses.
01 - Chemical and biological materials for industrial, scientific and agricultural use
04 - Industrial oils and greases; lubricants; fuels
Goods & Services
(1) Chemicals used in industry, science, agriculture, mining, horticulture and forestry; chemicals for use in the manufacture of explosives; emulsifiers; chemical emulsifiers; emulsifying agents; emulsifying preparations; unprocessed artificial resins, unprocessed plastics; adhesives used in industry; solvents; surface active agents, dispersants, wetters; surfactants, detergents in this class; plasticizers; oxidising salts; water treatment chemicals; chemical substances for preserving foodstuffs
(2) Industrial oils and greases; lubricants; dust absorbing, wetting and binding compositions; fuels
01 - Chemical and biological materials for industrial, scientific and agricultural use
04 - Industrial oils and greases; lubricants; fuels
Goods & Services
(1) Chemicals used in industry, science, agriculture, mining, horticulture and forestry; chemicals for use in the manufacture of explosives; emulsifiers; chemical emulsifiers; emulsifying agents; emulsifying preparations; unprocessed artificial resins, unprocessed plastics; adhesives used in industry; solvents; surface active agents, dispersants, wetters; surfactants, detergents in this class; plasticizers; oxidising salts; water treatment chemicals; chemical substances for preserving foodstuffs
(2) Industrial oils and greases; lubricants; dust absorbing, wetting and binding compositions; fuels
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
13 - Firearms; explosives
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
(1) Scientific apparatus, namely, monitoring, measuring, signalling, sensing or checking instruments, namely, electronic devices for signal or data acquisition, recording and transmitting to estimate, determine, check for, record, indicate and/or report on ground, rock, or geological material or formation characteristics or characteristics of substances carried therein or characteristics of structures produced therefrom, including geological or geophysical characteristics, and/or estimate, determine, check for, record, indicate, and report on status, state, or performance of sensing or drilling equipment for ground, rock, or geological materials or formations or structures produced therefrom, and in relation to the foregoing, data recording apparatus, namely, computers; electric or electronic ignitors for igniting explosives at a distance or remotely; electronic hardware for blast programming of explosives; computer peripheral devices, namely, monitors, printers, keyboards, hard disc drives, blank CDs, blank DVDs, removable memory devices including flash drives and CD and DVD players, and computer modems; computer software, namely, computer operating software; communications software, namely, communication software for connecting local area networks, wide area networks, and global computer networks; data management systems comprised of computer hardware and software for managing, recording, reporting, retrieval, storage, and analysis of data and information; computer software facilitating data processing and analysis; electronic data processing apparatus, including for acquiring data, and including Internet of Things (IoT) devices, all of the aforementioned for use in the mining, quarrying, construction, and geological or geophysical exploration industries.
(2) Explosives including bulk and packaged explosives and explosives compositions for use in mining, construction, excavation and related industries; non-electric explosives initiators, detonators and blast programming equipment; explosives accessories including shockwave conductors, shock tubing, detonating caps, connecting blocks, primers and fuses. (1) Provision of engineering services, and engineering surveying to the mining, quarrying, construction, and geological or geophysical exploration industries and to users of monitoring, sensing or measurement devices, drilling equipment and/or explosives in such industries; technical support services being troubleshooting provided to users of computer systems to detect breakdowns and provided to users of monitoring, sensing or measurement devices, drilling equipment and explosives; engineering services being recording and assessment of signals or data relating to ground, rock, or geological material or formation characteristics or characteristics of substances carried therein or characteristics of structures produced therefrom, including geological or geophysical characteristics, and/or signals or data relating to status, state, or performance of monitoring, sensing or drilling equipment for ground, rock, or geological materials or formations or structures produced therefrom; scientific research by recording and assessment of explosive blast related information including the formulation, supply, and delivery of explosives, explosives compositions, and explosives accessories and including designing and/or programming software; explosive blast design; conducting blast site evaluations and surveys, including pre-blast site evaluations and surveys and post-blast site evaluations and surveys, and analysing blast site evaluation and blast site survey data; engineering project management; engineering risk analysis; providing online non-downloadable software, software as a service for use in relation to the aforesaid; all the aforesaid provided to the mining, quarrying, construction, and geological or geophysical exploration industries and to users of sensing or drilling equipment and/or explosives in such industries.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Scientific apparatus, namely, electronic instruments in the nature of data and signal processors for monitoring, measuring, signaling, sensing, checking, recording, transmitting, estimating, determining, checking, indicating, and reporting on geological and geophysical characteristics of ground and rock, geological material and formation characteristics, characteristics of substances within geological material and formations, and characteristics of structures produced from geological material and formations; Scientific apparatus, namely, electronic instruments in the nature of data and signal processors for monitoring, measuring, signaling, sensing, checking, recording, transmitting, estimating, determining, checking, record, indicating, and reporting on the status, state, and performance of sensing and drilling equipment for ground, rock, geological materials, formations, structures produced from geological material and formations; Electronic data recorders; Computers; Remote controls for igniting explosives from a distance; Electronic hardware, namely, computer hardware and peripherals therefor for blast programming of explosives; Computer peripherals and parts thereof, namely, monitors, printers, keyboards, hard disc drives, blank CDs, blank DVDs, removable memory devices in the nature of flash drives, computer modems; CD players; DVD players; computer software, namely, downloadable computer operating software; Downloadable communications software for connecting local and wide area computer networks and global computer networks; Database management systems, namely, computer hardware and recorded software systems for managing, recording, reporting, retrieval, storage, and analysis of data and information; Downloadable computer software for facilitating data processing and analysis; Electronic data processing apparatus in the Internet of Things (loT) for acquiring data in the mining, quarrying, construction, and geological and geophysical exploration industries Provision of engineering services and engineering surveying for users of monitoring, sensing, and measuring devices, drilling equipment and explosives all for use in the mining, quarrying, construction, geological and geophysical exploration industries; Technical support services, namely, troubleshooting in the nature of diagnosing computer hardware and software problems to detect breakdowns for users of monitoring, sensing, and measuring devices, drilling equipment and explosives; Engineering services, namely, recording and assessing of signals and data relating to ground, rock, geological material and formation characteristics, characteristics of substances carried therein, characteristics of structures produced therefrom, geological and geophysical characteristics, signals and data relating to status, state, and performance of monitoring, sensing and drilling equipment for ground, rock, geological materials and formations and structures produced therefrom; Scientific research, namely, recording and assessing of explosive blast related information, in particular, the formation, supply, and delivery of explosives, explosives compositions, and explosive accessories for mining, quarrying, construction, and geological or geophysical exploration industries and for users of sensing or drilling equipment and explosives; Programming of computer software for mining, quarrying, construction, and geological or geophysical exploration industries and for users of sensing or drilling equipment and explosives; Software design for mining, quarrying, construction, and geological or geophysical exploration industries and for users of sensing or drilling equipment and explosives; Engineering design services, namely, explosive blast design for mining, quarrying, construction, and geological or geophysical exploration industries and for users of sensing or drilling equipment and explosives; Conducting blast site evaluations and land surveying of blast sites, pre-blast sites, and post-blast sites for mining, quarrying, construction, and geological or geophysical exploration industries and for users of sensing or drilling equipment and explosives; Analysing blast site evaluation and blast site survey data; Computer engineering project management services for mining, quarrying, construction, and geological or geophysical exploration industries and for users of sensing or drilling equipment and explosives; Engineering, namely, risk analysis for mining, quarrying, construction, and geological or geophysical exploration industries and for users of sensing or drilling equipment and explosives; Providing online non-downloadable software for explosives blast design and as designed blast outcome analysis for mining, quarrying, construction, and geological or geophysical exploration industries and for users of sensing or drilling equipment and explosives; Software as a service (SAAS)featuring software for explosives blast design and as designed blast outcome analysis for mining, quarrying, construction, and geological or geophysical exploration industries and for users of sensing or drilling equipment and explosives
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
13 - Firearms; explosives
Goods & Services
Devices for sensing properties of or testing electric or
electronic detonators and their components, devices for
logging the encoded identification of electric or electronic
detonators and their components; devices for logging the
position of electric or electronic detonators and their
components; devices for programming electronic detonators;
devices for transmitting signals to initiate a firing
sequence in electric or electronic detonators; computer
operating software for the use and operation of testing,
logging, connecting, transmitting and initiating devices
including electric or electronic detonators used in
programming commercial blasts and explosions; all
aforementioned goods for use in the mining, construction and
excavation industries. Explosives and explosives compositions for use in mining,
construction, excavation, road-making and related
industries; primers for explosives; explosives initiation
devices, namely, non-electric and electric initiation
devices and electronic detonators for use in mining,
construction, excavation, and related industries; commercial
explosives initiation accessories including shockwave
conductors, shock tubing, detonator caps, connecting blocks,
primers, and fuses.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
13 - Firearms; explosives
Goods & Services
Devices for sensing properties of or testing electric or
electronic detonators and their components, devices for
logging the encoded identification of electric or electronic
detonators and their components; devices for logging the
position of electric or electronic detonators and their
components; devices for programming electronic detonators;
devices for transmitting signals to initiate a firing
sequence in electric or electronic detonators; computer
operating software for the use and operation of testing,
logging, connecting, transmitting and initiating devices
including electric or electronic detonators used in
programming commercial blasts and explosions; all
aforementioned goods for use in the mining, construction and
excavation industries. Explosives and explosives compositions for use in mining,
construction, excavation, road-making and related
industries; primers for explosives; explosives initiation
devices, namely, non-electric and electric initiation
devices and electronic detonators for use in mining,
construction, excavation, and related industries; commercial
explosives initiation accessories including shockwave
conductors, shock tubing, detonator caps, connecting blocks,
primers, and fuses.
A process for remote localization of an object including: receiving/determining two or more magnetic field measurements using at least one magnetometer of a magnetic field generated by a magnetic field source (MFS) in a marker apparatus remote from the magnetometer and in/on an opaque medium such that the magnetic field extends through the opaque medium and/or through a navigable medium between the MFS and the magnetometer; receiving/determining two or more respective measurement locations of the magnetic field measurements in 3D by determining locations of the magnetometer when the magnetic field measurements are/were determined; and numerically estimating a location of the MFS in 3D using the magnetic field measurements, the measurement locations, and a mathematical model representing the system as a magnetic dipole (the MFS) in the navigable and opaque media and the resulting magnetic fields. The measurements can be made while a speed of the magnetometer is substantially non-zero travelling along a path including the measurement locations.
G01V 3/08 - Electric or magnetic prospecting or detectingMeasuring magnetic field characteristics of the earth, e.g. declination or deviation operating with magnetic or electric fields produced or modified by objects or geological structures or by detecting devices
G01R 33/02 - Measuring direction or magnitude of magnetic fields or magnetic flux
G01R 33/12 - Measuring magnetic properties of articles or specimens of solids or fluids
G01S 1/08 - Systems for determining direction or position line
G01S 1/70 - Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmittersReceivers co-operating therewith using electromagnetic waves other than radio waves
G01V 1/18 - Receiving elements, e.g. seismometer, geophone
G01V 3/10 - Electric or magnetic prospecting or detectingMeasuring magnetic field characteristics of the earth, e.g. declination or deviation operating with magnetic or electric fields produced or modified by objects or geological structures or by detecting devices using induction coils
29.
SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR INITIATING OR DETONATING TERTIARY EXPLOSIVE MEDIA BY WAY OF PHOTONIC ENERGY
In an embodiment, a photoinitiation apparatus includes: a set of illumination sources or elements configured for outputting optical energy; a body structure having a proximal body structure portion confining a proximal volume of explosive medium, an intermediate body structure portion confining an intermediate volume of explosive medium, and a distal body structure portion confining a distal volume of explosive medium, wherein the proximal volume of explosive medium is optically coupled to portions of the first volume of explosive medium, at least one of the proximal volume of explosive medium and the distal volume of explosive medium is a tertiary explosive medium, and (a) the body structure does not carry a primary explosive composition and does not carry a secondary explosive composition, and/or (b) each of the proximal, intermediate, and distal volumes of explosive media has an initiation sensitivity that is less than cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX) based explosive compositions.
Disclosed herein are systems and methods/processes for wireless electronic blasting (WEB), in particular for commercial/civil blasting operations that use wireless blasting-related devices that are deployable or deployed within portions of a physical medium (e.g., a rock formation) intended to be blasted as part of a commercial/civil blasting operation.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
13 - Firearms; explosives
Goods & Services
(1) Devices for sensing properties of or testing electric or electronic detonators and their components, devices [data loggers] for logging the encoded identification of electric or electronic detonators and their components; devices [data loggers] for logging the position of electric or electronic detonators and their components; devices for programming electronic detonators; electronic controller devices for transmitting and initiating a firing sequence in electronic detonators; computer operating software for the use and operation of testing, logging, connecting, transmitting and initiating devices including electric or electronic detonators used in programming commercial blasts and explosions; all aforementioned goods for use in the mining, construction and excavation industries.
(2) Explosives and explosives compositions for use in mining, construction, excavation, road-making and related industries; primers for explosives; explosives initiation devices, namely, non-electric and electric initiation devices and electronic detonators for use in mining, construction, excavation, and related industries; commercial explosives initiation accessories including shockwave conductors, shock tubing, detonator caps, connecting blocks, primers, and fuses.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
13 - Firearms; explosives
Goods & Services
(1) Devices for sensing properties of or testing electric or electronic detonators and their components, devices for logging the encoded identification of electric or electronic detonators and their components; devices for logging the position of electric or electronic detonators and their components; devices for programming electronic detonators; devices for transmitting signals to initiate a firing sequence in electric or electronic detonators; computer operating software for the use and operation of testing, logging, connecting, transmitting and initiating devices including electric or electronic detonators used in programming commercial blasts and explosions; all aforementioned goods for use in the mining, construction and excavation industries.
(2) Explosives and explosives compositions for use in mining, construction, excavation, road-making and related industries; primers for explosives; explosives initiation devices, namely, non-electric and electric initiation devices and electronic detonators for use in mining, construction, excavation, and related industries; commercial explosives initiation accessories including shockwave conductors, shock tubing, detonator caps, connecting blocks, primers, and fuses.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
Goods & Services
Explosives and explosives compositions for use in mining, construction, excavation, road-making and related industries; primers for explosives; explosives initiation devices, namely, non-electric and electric initiation devices and electronic detonators for use in mining, construction, excavation, and related industries; commercial explosives initiation accessories, in particular, shockwave conductors of metal or polymer, shock tubing of metal or polymer, detonator caps other than toys, connecting blocks, primers, and fuses Devices for sensing properties of or testing the function and effectiveness of electric or electronic detonators and their components; electronic data loggers, namely, devices for logging the encoded identification of electric or electronic detonators and their components; electronic positioning apparatus and instruments, namely, devices for logging the position of electric or electronic detonators and their components; electronic devices for programming electronic detonators; electronic devices for transmitting signals to initiate a firing sequence in electric or electronic detonators; downloadable and recorded computer operating software for the use and operation of testing, logging, connecting, transmitting and initiating devices in particular electric or electronic detonators used in programming commercial blasts and explosions; all aforementioned goods for use in the mining, construction and excavation industries, in particular, relating to mining or commercial blasting operations, and not including goods used in the fields of energy efficiency, energy consumption, calculating energy costs, energy usage, energy savings, and energy design assistance for buildings
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
13 - Firearms; explosives
Goods & Services
(1) Devices for sensing properties of or testing electric or electronic detonators and their components, devices [data loggers] for logging the encoded identification of electric or electronic detonators and their components; devices [data loggers] for logging the position of electric or electronic detonators and their components; devices for programming electronic detonators; electronic controller devices for transmitting and initiating a firing sequence in electronic detonators; computer operating software for the use and operation of testing, logging, connecting, transmitting and initiating devices including electric or electronic detonators used in programming commercial blasts and explosions; all aforementioned goods for use in the mining, construction and excavation industries.
(2) Explosives and explosives compositions for use in mining, construction, excavation, road-making and related industries; primers for explosives; explosives initiation devices, namely, non-electric, electric, and electronic initiation devices for use in mining, construction, excavation, and related industries; commercial explosives initiation accessories including shockwave conductors, shock tubing, transmitter caps, connecting blocks, primers, and fuses.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
Goods & Services
Explosives and explosives compositions for use in mining, construction, excavation, road-making and related industries; primers for explosives; explosives initiation devices, namely, non-electric and electric initiation devices and electronic detonators for use in mining, construction, excavation, and related industries; commercial explosives initiation accessories, in particular, shockwave conductors of metal or polymer, shock tubing of metal or polymer, detonator caps other than toys, connecting blocks, primers, and fuses Devices for sensing properties of or testing the function and effectiveness of electric or electronic detonators and their components; electronic data loggers, namely, devices for logging the encoded identification of electric or electronic detonators and their components; electronic positioning apparatus and instruments, namely, devices for logging the position of electric or electronic detonators and their components; electronic devices for programming electronic detonators; electronic devices for transmitting signals to initiate a firing sequence in electric or electronic detonators; downloadable and recorded computer operating software for the use and operation of testing, logging, connecting, transmitting and initiating devices in particular electric or electronic detonators used in programming commercial blasts and explosions; all aforementioned goods for use in the mining, construction and excavation industries, in particular, relating to mining or commercial blasting operations, and not including goods used in the fields of energy efficiency, energy consumption, calculating energy costs, energy usage, energy savings, and energy design assistance for buildings
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
Goods & Services
Explosives and explosives compositions for use in mining, construction, excavation, road-making and related industries; primers for explosives; explosives initiation devices, namely, non-electric and electric initiation devices and electronic detonators for use in mining, construction, excavation, and related industries; commercial explosives initiation accessories, in particular, shockwave conductors of metal or polymer, shock tubing of metal or polymer, detonator caps other than toys, connecting blocks, primers, and fuses Devices for sensing properties of or testing the function and effectiveness of electric or electronic detonators and their components; electronic data loggers, namely, devices for logging the encoded identification of electric or electronic detonators and their components; electronic positioning apparatus and instruments, namely, devices for logging the position of electric or electronic detonators and their components; electronic devices for programming electronic detonators; electronic devices for transmitting signals to initiate a firing sequence in electric or electronic detonators; downloadable and recorded computer operating software for the use and operation of testing, logging, connecting, transmitting and initiating devices in particular electric or electronic detonators used in programming commercial blasts and explosions; all aforementioned goods for use in the mining, construction and excavation industries, in particular, relating to mining or commercial blasting operations, and not including goods used in the fields of energy efficiency, energy consumption, calculating energy costs, energy usage, energy savings, and energy design assistance for buildings
37.
SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR COMMERCIAL BLASTING OPERATIONS
A system for commercial blasting operations includes at least one commercial blasting system element in the form of a translocation monitoring unit (TMU), configured to reside in a borehole, which is configured to be couplable to, coupled to or incorporated in a wireless initiation device that is configured for commercial blasting. The TMU includes: an inertial measurement unit (IMU) configured to measure spatial displacement of the IMU based on one or more movement sensors of (internal to) the IMU; and/or an externally-generated localization signal reception unit configured wirelessly receive one or more types of externally-generated localization signals transmitted by one or more localization signal sources disposed external to the TMU and external to the wireless initiation device. The system includes an electronic processing unit and memory configured to evaluate spatial displacement, and to control the wireless initiation device to automatically transition its state based on the evaluated spatial displacement.
H04Q 9/00 - Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom
A process for improved blast design including the steps of: acquiring geological data about a blast site from multiple data sources; extracting one or more blastability labels from the geological data; mapping the blastability labels in two or three dimensions; designing a pattern of blast holes based on the mapping; designing explosive for each blast hole based on the blastability label for that blast hole; loading each blast hole in the pattern of blast holes with the designed explosive for that blast hole; and detonating the explosive. Also, a method of extracting valuable resources from an area using the process and a visualisation tool for blasting operations that displays data from the process.
F42D 3/04 - Particular applications of blasting techniques for rock blasting
E21C 39/00 - Devices for testing in situ the hardness or other properties of minerals, e.g. for giving information as to the selection of suitable mining tools
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
13 - Firearms; explosives
37 - Construction and mining; installation and repair services
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Devices for testing electronic detonators and their
components, devices for logging the encoded identification
of electronic detonators and their components, devices for
logging the position of electronic detonators and their
components, devices for transmitting signals to initiate a
firing sequence in electronic detonators; computer software,
namely computer operating software for the use and operation
of testing, logging, connecting, transmitting and initiating
devices used in programming blasts and explosions; data
management software, namely software used for recording data
in connection with completed blasts and explosions; electric
and electronic initiators for igniting explosives at a
distance or remotely; electronic hardware for blast
programming of explosives. Explosives, explosives compositions; non-electric explosives
initiators, electric and non-electric detonators; explosives
accessories including shockwave conductors, shock tubing,
detonators, connecting blocks, primers and fuses. Commercial explosive blasting and blast supervision
services; blast hole drilling and loading. Explosives engineering services being commercial explosive
blast design, implementation, assessment, monitoring and
data recording including designing and/or programming
software in connection therewith.
A system, including for automatically detecting, monitoring and/or controlling loading of explosive material in a borehole during commercial blasting operations, including: a sensor component with a sensor element including at least one sensor configured to automatically determine a depth of the sensor element in fluid explosive material in a borehole; and a depth component configured to automatically determine a relative depth of the sensor element in the borehole relative to a fluid outlet while the fluid outlet is loading the fluid explosive material in the borehole.
F42D 1/10 - Feeding explosives in granular or slurry formFeeding explosives by pneumatic or hydraulic pressure
F42D 3/04 - Particular applications of blasting techniques for rock blasting
G01F 23/14 - Indicating or measuring liquid level or level of fluent solid material, e.g. indicating in terms of volume or indicating by means of an alarm by measurement of pressure
A system including a range extension system for extending a range of magnetic induction (MI) signals along a pathway for commercial/civil blasting operations that use a wireless blasting-related device, the range extension system including an elongated element configured to extend the range of the MI signals along the pathway.
A system/apparatus including: at least one control system or control unit configured for changing a concentration / flow rate of a set of sensitizing agents for an explosive composition, wherein the sensitizing agents are introduced at or into at least one portion of an explosive composition loading system or apparatus in a manner that facilitates or enables generation of two or more explosive compositions having at least one density profile / distribution, wherein the changing of the concentration / flow rate provides the sensitizing agents with a concentration profile / distribution within and along a conduit / hose during flow of the explosive compositions toward and prior to the explosive compositions reaching a distal portion of the conduit / hose that is fluidically coupled to an outlet structure, wherein the concentration profile / distribution corresponds to the density profile / distribution.
The safety systems for commercial blasting operations include wireless transmitter system(s) configured to send command signals wirelessly to wireless devices that are configured for wireless electronic blasting (web). The system also includes disable antenna(s) that define deactivation zone(s); vehicle/personnel presence detector system(s) including detectors that define detection zone(s), and/or RFID scanner system(s) with reader antennas that defined scanner zone(s); and a safety control system in electronic communication with the wireless transmitter system(s), and the vehicle/personnel presence detector systems and/or the RFID scanner systems, wherein the safety control system is configured to control the wireless transmitter systems to send wireless disable command(s) to disable the wireless devices that are within the deactivation zones, and/or to control alarm system(s) to generate alarms, in response to a vehicle/person being detected in the detection zones and/or a wireless device being detected in the scanner zones.
G08B 21/02 - Alarms for ensuring the safety of persons
G08B 25/10 - Alarm systems in which the location of the alarm condition is signalled to a central station, e.g. fire or police telegraphic systems characterised by the transmission medium using wireless transmission systems
G08B 3/10 - Audible signalling systemsAudible personal calling systems using electric transmissionAudible signalling systemsAudible personal calling systems using electromagnetic transmission
G08B 5/36 - Visible signalling systems, e.g. personal calling systems, remote indication of seats occupied using electric transmissionVisible signalling systems, e.g. personal calling systems, remote indication of seats occupied using electromagnetic transmission using visible light sources
H04W 4/21 - Services signallingAuxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel for social networking applications
H04W 4/80 - Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
F42D 1/055 - Electric circuits for blasting specially adapted for firing multiple charges with a time delay
Automated apparatus for storing, transporting, dispensing, and assembling wireless initiation devices configurable for initiating explosive material compositions
Disclosed is a magazine apparatus including a first magazine and a second magazine. The first magazine is configured for holding, carrying and dispensing first initiation device components. The second magazine is configured for holding, carrying and dispensing second initiation device components. The first magazine and the second magazine are configured to dispense the first initiation device components and the second initiation device components in a corresponding manner such that a dispensed one of the first initiation device components and a correspondingly dispensed one of the second initiation device components can be assembled together to form a structurally complete, unified initiation device for loading into a borehole.
The present invention relates to a borehole resident electronic device for use in a blasting operation, the device comprising a container in which is located one or more electronic components, the container having a wall structure comprising a fibre-reinforced composite thermoset resin layer positioned to shield the one or more electronic components from an explosive shockwave generated during the blasting operation and remote from the device, wherein the fibre is in a form selected from unidirectional fibre, woven fibre, wound fibre, nonwoven fibre, and combinations thereof.
F42B 3/11 - Initiators therefor characterised by the material used, e.g. for initiator case or electric leads
F42D 1/00 - Blasting methods or apparatus, e.g. for loading or tamping
B32B 5/02 - Layered products characterised by the non-homogeneity or physical structure of a layer characterised by structural features of a layer comprising fibres or filaments
B32B 27/04 - Layered products essentially comprising synthetic resin as impregnant, bonding, or embedding substance
F42D 99/00 - Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
E21C 39/00 - Devices for testing in situ the hardness or other properties of minerals, e.g. for giving information as to the selection of suitable mining tools
Disclosed is a system for assisting blasting. The system includes at least one wireless blasting-related device that is deployable or deployed proximate to or within a portion of physical media intended to be blasted as part of a commercial blasting operation. The blasting-related device includes a device-based magnetic induction (MI) signal receiver with a magnetometer configured for through the earth (TTE) MI communication, and the blasting-related device includes a device-based MI signal source with a device-based antenna configured for TTE MI communication. The device-based MI signal source is configured to communicate with a vehicle-based MI signal receiver in a blast support vehicle that includes a set of vehicle-based magnetometers.
F42D 3/04 - Particular applications of blasting techniques for rock blasting
B64U 101/00 - UAVs specially adapted for particular uses or applications
47.
Automated systems and apparatuses for storing, transporting, dispensing, and tracking wireless initiation device components configurable for initiating explosive material compositions
Disclosed is a system that includes a magazine. The magazine is configured for holding and dispensing initiation devices or initiation device components having respective non-contact readable identification (ID) codes. The magazine includes one or more initiation device tracking unit(s) configured for reading the non-contact codes of the initiation devices or initiation device components for tracking the initiation devices or the initiation device components.
F42D 1/10 - Feeding explosives in granular or slurry formFeeding explosives by pneumatic or hydraulic pressure
F42D 1/22 - Means for holding or positioning blasting cartridges or tamping cartridges in boreholes
G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensingMethods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation
G06K 19/07 - Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards with integrated circuit chips
37 - Construction and mining; installation and repair services
Goods & Services
Consultancy services in the field of mining extraction, namely, planning and provision of technical information and advice in connection with the mining extraction, quarrying, tunnelling construction and excavation industries; technical extraction information, advice and consultancy services in the field of mining extraction, quarrying, tunneling, construction and excavation extractions in connection with the explosives industry
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Electronic apparatus and instruments in the nature of computer hardware and computer peripherals for designing, predicting and recording explosive blasts; downloadable computer software for use in planning, predicting, measuring, recording, sending, designing, storing and displaying of data in relation to explosives or explosives blasts Scientific research and technology consulting relating to the mining exploration, tunnelling design and construction planning industries; scientific research and development of new products in the field of chemicals, explosives and blasting; research and development relating to new products in the mining, quarrying, tunnelling, construction, excavation and explosives industries; consulting services in the field of environmental assessment and planning in the mining, quarrying, tunnelling, construction, excavation and explosives industry; consultancy in the field of mining exploration; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable computer software for use in planning, predicting, measuring, recording, sending, designing, storing and displaying of data in relation to explosives or explosives blasts; technical consultancy in the field of environmental science, namely, planning and provision of technical expertise and advice in connection with chemicals, explosives, explosives products and blasting
A system for determining locations of blast fragments, the system comprising: a three-dimensional (3D) imaging system mounted on an excavation device and configured for viewing a portion of a pile of blast fragments and configured for capturing at least one image of the viewed portion of the pile of blast fragments; a positioning system configured for providing a location and heading of the excavation device; a processor configured to execute program instructions to perform image processing operations upon the images of the viewed portion of the pile of blast fragments, to: identify a reference location in the viewed portion of the pile of blast fragments; determine the reference location in a geographic coordinate system; identify a plurality of individual blast fragments in the viewed portion of the pile of blast fragments; and determine a distinct geographic coordinate corresponding to each of the plurality of individual blast fragments.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
13 - Firearms; explosives
37 - Construction and mining; installation and repair services
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
(1) Devices for testing electronic detonators and their components, devices for logging the encoded identification of electronic detonators and their components, devices for logging the position of electronic detonators and their components, devices for transmitting signals to initiate a firing sequence in electronic detonators; computer software, namely computer operating software for the use and operation of testing, logging, connecting, transmitting and initiating devices used in programming blasts and explosions; data management software, namely software used for recording data in connection with completed blasts and explosions; electric and electronic initiators for igniting explosives at a distance or remotely; electronic hardware for blast programming of explosives.
(2) Explosives, explosives compositions; non-electric explosives initiators, electric and non-electric detonators; explosives accessories, namely, shockwave conductors, shock tubing, detonators, connecting blocks, explosive primers and explosive fuses (1) Commercial explosive blasting and blast supervision services; blast hole drilling and loading.
(2) Explosives engineering services being commercial explosive blast design, implementation, assessment, monitoring and data recording including designing and/or programming software in connection therewith.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
37 - Construction and mining; installation and repair services
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Explosives; non-electric explosives initiators, namely, detonators, electric and non-electric detonators; explosives accessories, namely, electric and non-electric shockwave conductors, plastic or metallic shock tubing, detonators, connecting blocks, primers and electric and non-electric fuses Electronic devices for testing electronic detonators and their components, electronic devices for logging the encoded identification of electronic detonators and their components, electronic devices for logging the position of electronic detonators and their components, electronic devices for transmitting signals to initiate a firing sequence in electronic detonators; downloadable computer software, namely computer operating software for the use and operation of testing, logging, connecting, transmitting and initiating devices used in programming blasts and explosions; downloadable data management software, namely software used for recording data in connection with completed blasts and explosions; electric or electronic initiating devices, namely, detonators for igniting explosives at a distance or remotely; electronic computer hardware for blast programming of explosives Commercial explosive blasting and blast supervision services; blast hole drilling and loading Explosives engineering services being commercial explosive blast design, implementation, assessment, monitoring and data recording; computer programing services and software design services in connection with commercial explosive blast design, implementation, assessment, monitoring and data recording
53.
Deployment of quasi-planar shock wave generators in association with seismic exploration
Disclosed is a geophysical or seismic exploration system. The system comprises a set of explosive device magazines configured for carrying a plurality of explosive device components, wherein the explosive device components are configurable to form individual explosive devices, and wherein each explosive device carries a set of explosive compositions and is configured for collimating an explosive shock wave produced thereby into a quasi-planar shock wave output from a distal end of the explosive device to produce a geophysical or seismic exploration wave. The system also includes a set of unmanned explosive device deployment support vehicles, wherein each unmanned explosive device deployment support vehicle comprises an aerial or land-based unmanned vehicle configured for carrying an explosive device magazine and delivering the explosive device magazine to a first in-field location at which each explosive device is deployable for carrying out a geophysical or seismic exploration operation.
A wireless initiation device comprises a power source, a processing module, a first housing and an initiation unit. The processing module processes wireless electromagnetic communications signals received by an electromagnetic receiver system associated with the processing module. The wireless electromagnetic communications signals includes a wireless electromagnetic communications signal representative of a FIRE command. The processing module is configured to generate an initiation signal upon receipt of the FIRE command. At least one of the power source and the processing module is disposed in the first housing, and the first housing has a first connector. The initiation unit has a second housing within which is disposed an initiation module that is configured to discharge initiation energy sufficient to initiate an explosive charge associated with the device. The initiation module is connected to, or connectable with, the processing module such that initiation module can receive an initiation signal from the processing module. The initiation unit also has a second connector that is configured to mate with the first connector, thereby connecting the first and second housings. The initiation module is configured to execute a sequence upon receipt of the initiation signal, the sequence resulting in discharge of initiation energy from the initiation unit.
12 - Land, air and water vehicles; parts of land vehicles
40 - Treatment of materials; recycling, air and water treatment,
Goods & Services
Vehicles including land vehicles and large or heavy
industrial vehicles adapted for transporting, conveying, and
dispensing of chemicals and chemical compositions, including
explosives and explosives compositions, used in the mining,
quarrying, and construction industries; parts, fittings and
accessories for the aforesaid. Services related to chemical or mechanical treatment,
processing, transformation or blending of materials
including chemical and explosives compositions, accessories
for initiation of explosives compositions and apparatus for
the manufacture, supply and use of explosives compositions
and accessories for the initiation of explosives
compositions; all the aforementioned services provided to
the mining and excavation industry and to users of
explosives.
C01B 33/12 - SilicaHydrates thereof, e.g. lepidoic silicic acid
B01J 10/00 - Chemical processes in general for reacting liquid with gaseous media other than in the presence of solid particlesApparatus specially adapted therefor
C01B 33/193 - Preparation of finely divided silica neither in sol nor in gel formAfter-treatment thereof by acidic treatment of silicates of aqueous solutions of silicates
57.
SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND DEVICES FOR COMMERCIAL BLASTING OPERATIONS
A system for commercial blasting operations includes at least one commercial blasting system element in the form of a translocation monitoring unit (TMU), configured to reside in a borehole, which is configured to be couplable to, coupled to or incorporated in a wireless initiation device that is configured for commercial blasting. The TMU includes: an inertial measurement unit (IMU) configured to measure spatial displacement of the IMU based on one or more movement sensors of (internal to) the IMU; and/or an externally-generated localization signal reception unit configured wirelessly receive one or more types of externally-generated localization signals transmitted by one or more localization signal sources disposed external to the TMU and external to the wireless initiation device. The system includes an electronic processing unit and memory configured to evaluate spatial displacement, and to control the wireless initiation device to automatically transition its state based on the evaluated spatial displacement.
F42D 3/00 - Particular applications of blasting techniques
G01C 21/16 - NavigationNavigational instruments not provided for in groups by using measurement of speed or acceleration executed aboard the object being navigatedDead reckoning by integrating acceleration or speed, i.e. inertial navigation
G01S 19/47 - Determining position by combining measurements of signals from the satellite radio beacon positioning system with a supplementary measurement the supplementary measurement being an inertial measurement, e.g. tightly coupled inertial
G01S 19/49 - Determining position by combining or switching between position solutions derived from the satellite radio beacon positioning system and position solutions derived from a further system whereby the further system is an inertial position system, e.g. loosely-coupled
12 - Land, air and water vehicles; parts of land vehicles
40 - Treatment of materials; recycling, air and water treatment,
Goods & Services
(1) Vehicles, namely, land vehicles, large industrial vehicles and heavy industrial vehicles adapted for transporting, conveying, and dispensing of chemicals and chemical compositions in the nature of explosives and explosives compositions, used in the mining, quarrying, and construction industries, and structural parts and fittings for all of the aforesaid. (1) Chemical and mechanical treatment, processing, transformation and blending of materials in the nature of chemical and explosives compositions, all the aforementioned services provided to the mining and excavation industry and to users of explosives.
12 - Land, air and water vehicles; parts of land vehicles
40 - Treatment of materials; recycling, air and water treatment,
Goods & Services
Vehicles, namely, land vehicles and large or heavy industrial land vehicles adapted for transporting, conveying, and dispensing of chemicals and chemical compositions, including explosives and explosives compositions, used in the mining, quarrying, and construction industries; parts, fittings and accessories for the aforesaid, namely, land vehicle structural parts Chemical and mechanical treatment, processing, transformation or blending of materials being treatment of materials through chemical or mechanical processing in particular of chemical and explosives compositions, accessories for initiation of explosives compositions and apparatus for the manufacture, supply and use of explosives compositions and accessories for the initiation of explosives compositions; all the aforementioned services provided to the mining and excavation industry and to users of explosives
12 - Land, air and water vehicles; parts of land vehicles
40 - Treatment of materials; recycling, air and water treatment,
Goods & Services
(1) Vehicles, namely, large industrial land vehicles and heavy industrial vehicles adapted for transporting, conveying, and dispensing of chemicals and chemical compositions in the nature of explosives and explosives compositions, used in the mining, quarrying, and construction industries, and structural parts and fittings for all of the aforesaid. (1) Chemical and mechanical treatment, processing, transformation and blending of materials in the nature of chemical and explosives compositions, all the aforementioned services provided to the mining and excavation industry and to users of explosives.
40 - Treatment of materials; recycling, air and water treatment,
Goods & Services
Services related to chemical or mechanical treatment, processing, transformation or blending of materials being treatment of materials through chemical or mechanical processing in particular of chemical and explosives compositions, accessories for initiation of explosives compositions and apparatus for the manufacture, supply and use of explosives compositions and accessories for the initiation of explosives compositions; all the aforementioned services provided to the mining and excavation industry and to users of explosives
62.
Explosive device configured for producing a quasi-planar shock wave
An explosive device configured for outputting a quasi-planar shock wave includes: a body structure having a proximal end and an opposing distal end, and within which (a) an initiation device chamber; (b) a donor charge having a geometric shape correlated with first cone having an internal void exhibiting a geometric shape correlated with a second cone, wherein a first base of the first cone and a second base of the second cone reside in a common plane and have a common center point; (c) a non-explosive wave shaper filling the void; and (d) an acceptor charge are sequentially disposed adjacent to each other in a direction toward the distal end. Perpendicular to the central axis, a maximum lateral span of each of the wave shaper, the donor charge, and the acceptor charge coincide. The acceptor explosive charge mass does not laterally extend to a set of body structure outer walls.
12 - Land, air and water vehicles; parts of land vehicles
37 - Construction and mining; installation and repair services
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for the
manufacture, supply, deployment, loading and use of
explosives, explosives compositions and explosives
initiating devices; apparatus, machines, machine tools and
systems for conveying, deploying, loading, lifting and
transportation of explosives, explosives compositions and
explosives initiating devices, including by way of conveyor
apparatuses and pump systems; apparatus, machines, machine
tools and systems for use in mining; apparatus, machines,
machine tools and systems including automated apparatus,
machines, machine tools and systems for clearing debris from
mines, rock drilling sites, blasting sites, blast holes,
excavating sites and tunnels; apparatus, machines, machine
tools and systems including automated apparatus, machines,
machine tools and systems for dewatering of mines, blasting
sites, blast holes, excavating sites and tunnels; drilling
rigs, drilling assemblies, drilling machines, drilling
units, drilling rods, rock drills, self-propelled drilling
assemblies, hydraulic drilling rigs, explosives charging
rigs, all for use in mining, excavating and tunneling;
automated equipment for rock drilling including drill units
(none being vehicles), automated equipment for explosives
loading (none being vehicles), all for use in mining,
excavating and tunneling; rock cracking and rock support
machines and drill arms for use in shifting, advancing and
positioning rock drilling machines and rock drills, all for
use in mining, excavating and tunneling; mechanical lifting
and adjustable platforms and self-propelled drilling rigs
and explosive loading rigs, all for use in mining,
excavating and tunneling; parts and fittings for all the
aforesaid goods. Vehicles including land vehicles and large or heavy
industrial vehicles for use in mining, excavating and
tunneling; land vehicles adapted for conveying, deploying,
loading, lifting and transportation of explosives,
explosives compositions and explosives initiating devices;
drill carriages, scaling wagons, being vehicles for use in
mining excavating and tunneling; parts and fittings for all
the aforesaid goods. Blasting and blast management services; explosive blasting
including blast initiating services, explosive blast hole
drilling services, explosive blast hole loading services;
design, placement, control and containment of explosives,
explosive devices, and explosive blasts and explosives
blasting management services related thereto; explosive
blast hole drilling services and explosive blast hole
loading services for mining, excavating and tunnelling;
maintenance, installation, servicing and repair in relation
to apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for the
manufacture and supply of explosives, explosives
compositions and explosives initiating devices, apparatus,
machines, machine tools and systems for conveying,
deploying, loading, lifting and transportation of
explosives, explosives compositions and explosives
initiating devices, conveyor apparatuses and pump systems,
apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for use in
mining, apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems
including automated apparatus, machines, machine tools and
systems for clearing debris from mines, rock drilling sites,
blasting sites, blast holes, excavating sites and tunnels,
apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems including
automated apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for
dewatering of mines, blasting sites, blast holes, excavating
sites and tunnels, drilling rigs, drilling assemblies,
drilling machines, drilling units, drilling rods, rock
drills, self-propelled drilling assemblies, hydraulic
drilling rigs, all for use in mining, excavating and
tunneling, automated equipment for rock drilling including
drill units, all for use in mining, excavating and
tunneling, rock cracking and rock support machines and drill
arms for use in shifting, advancing and positioning rock
drilling machines and rock drills, all for use in mining,
excavating and tunneling, mechanical lifting and adjustable
platforms and self-propelled drilling rigs, all for use in
mining, excavating and tunneling, vehicles including land
vehicles and large or heavy industrial vehicles for use in
mining, excavating and tunneling, land vehicles adapted for
conveying, loading, lifting and transportation of
explosives, explosives compositions and explosives
initiating devices, drill carriages, scaling wagons, mining
vehicles, all being vehicles for use in mining excavating
and tunneling and parts and fittings for the aforesaid
goods; provision of advisory information and consultancy in
relation to the aforesaid. Provision of scientific, engineering, advisory, consultancy
and technical support services to the mining, excavating and
tunnelling industries and to users of explosives and
explosives initiating systems and devices; design,
implementation, assessment, monitoring and recording of
blasting applications including supply and delivery of
explosives, explosives compositions, explosives initiating
devices and explosives accessories; designing and/or
programming software in the field of mining, excavating and
tunnelling; conducting and analysing blast site surveys;
engineering project management; engineering risk analysis;
all the aforesaid provided to the mining, excavating and
tunnelling industries and to users of explosives; provision
of non-downloadable software in relation to the aforesaid;
advisory information and consultancy in relation to the
aforesaid.
12 - Land, air and water vehicles; parts of land vehicles
37 - Construction and mining; installation and repair services
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for the manufacture, supply, deployment, loading and use being loading machines for explosives, explosives compositions and explosives initiating devices; apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for conveying, deploying, loading, lifting and transportation, namely, conveyors being machines for explosives, explosives compositions and explosives initiating devices, including by way of conveyor apparatuses and pump systems; apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for use in mining, namely, mining machines; apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems including automated apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for clearing debris being excavating machines or rock debris sweeping machines for mines, rock drilling sites, blasting sites, blast holes, excavating sites and tunnels; apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems including automated apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for dewatering being pneumatic or electric dewatering pumps for mines, blasting sites, blast holes, excavating sites and tunnels; drilling rigs, drilling assemblies being core drilling bits, drilling machines, automated drilling machines, drilling rods being power drill bits, rock drills, self-propelled drilling assemblies being core drilling bits, hydraulic drilling rigs, explosives charging rigs being machines for conveying, pumping, or loading explosives compositions and/or explosive initiation devices into boreholes, all for use in mining, excavating and tunneling; automated equipment for rock drilling, in particular, drill units being drilling machines, none being vehicles, automated equipment for explosives loading being explosive composition loading or borehole charging machines, none being vehicles, all for use in mining, excavating and tunneling; rock cracking and rock support machines and drill arms being drilling machines for use in shifting, advancing and positioning rock drilling machines and rock drills, all for use in mining, excavating and tunneling; mechanical lifting and adjustable platforms and self-propelled drilling rigs and explosive loading rigs being machines for conveying, pumping, or loading explosives compositions and/or explosive initiation devices into boreholes, all for use in mining, excavating and tunneling; parts and fittings for all the aforesaid goods, namely, explosives composition pneumatic pumps, explosives composition positive displacement pumps, explosives composition progressive cavity pumps, explosives composition residual pressure pumps Vehicles, namely, land vehicles and large or heavy industrial land vehicles for use in mining, excavating and tunneling; land vehicles adapted for conveying, deploying, loading, lifting and transportation of explosives, explosives compositions and explosives initiating devices; drill carriages, being land vehicles for use in mining excavating and tunnelling Blasting and blast management services being explosives composition and explosives initiation device loading or borehole charging services explosive blasting including blast initiating services, explosive blast hole drilling services, explosive blast hole loading services being excavation services and explosives composition and explosives initiation device loading or borehole charging services being mining services; design, placement, control and containment of explosives, explosive devices, and explosive blasts and explosives blasting management services related thereto being mining extraction services; explosive blast hole drilling services and explosive blast hole loading services for mining, excavating and tunneling being mining extraction services; maintenance, installation, servicing being maintenance and repair in relation to machines, in particular, apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for the manufacture and supply of explosives, explosives compositions and explosives initiating devices, apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for conveying, deploying, loading, lifting and transportation of explosives, explosives compositions and explosives initiating devices, conveyor apparatuses and pump systems, apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for use in mining, apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems including automated apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for clearing debris from mines, rock drilling sites, blasting sites, blast holes, excavating sites and tunnels, apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems including automated apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for dewatering of mines, blasting sites, blast holes, excavating sites and tunnels, drilling rigs, drilling assemblies, drilling machines, drilling units, drilling rods, rock drills, self-propelled drilling assemblies, hydraulic drilling rigs, all for use in mining, excavating and tunneling, automated equipment for rock drilling including drill units, all for use in mining, excavating and tunneling, rock cracking and rock support machines and drill arms for use in shifting, advancing and positioning rock drilling machines and rock drills, all for use in mining, excavating and tunneling, mechanical lifting and adjustable platforms and self-propelled drilling rigs, all for use in mining, excavating and tunneling, vehicles including land vehicles and large or heavy industrial vehicles for use in mining, excavating and tunneling, land vehicles adapted for conveying, loading, lifting and transportation of explosives, explosives compositions and explosives initiating devices, drill carriages, scaling wagons, mining vehicles, all being vehicles for use in mining excavating and tunneling and parts and fittings for the aforesaid goods; provision of advisory information and consultancy in relation to the aforesaid Provision of scientific, engineering, advisory, consultancy and technical support services being engineering advice and consulting to the mining, excavating and tunnelling industries and to users of explosives and explosives initiating systems and devices; design, implementation, assessment, monitoring and recording of blasting applications namely design and development of software applications for supply and delivery of explosives, explosives compositions, explosives initiating devices and explosives accessories; designing or programming software in the field of mining, excavating and tunnelling; conducting and analysing blast site surveys being engineering surveying; engineering project management; engineering risk analysis; all the aforesaid provided to the mining, excavating and tunnelling industries and to users of explosives; provision of online non-downloadable software in relation to the aforesaid in particular for use in engineering project management; advisory information and consultancy in relation to the aforesaid
12 - Land, air and water vehicles; parts of land vehicles
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for the
manufacture, supply, deployment, loading and use of
explosives, explosives compositions and explosives
initiating devices; apparatus, machines, machine tools and
systems for conveying, deploying, loading, lifting and
transportation of explosives, explosives compositions and
explosives initiating devices, including by way of conveyor
apparatuses and pump systems; apparatus, machines, machine
tools and systems for use in mining; apparatus, machines,
machine tools and systems including automated apparatus,
machines, machine tools and systems for clearing debris from
mines, rock drilling sites, blasting sites, blast holes,
excavating sites and tunnels; apparatus, machines, machine
tools and systems including automated apparatus, machines,
machine tools and systems for dewatering of mines, blasting
sites, blast holes, excavating sites and tunnels; drilling
rigs, drilling assemblies, drilling machines, drilling
units, drilling rods, rock drills, self-propelled drilling
assemblies, hydraulic drilling rigs, explosives charging
rigs, all for use in mining, excavating and tunneling;
automated equipment for rock drilling including drill units
(none being vehicles), automated equipment for explosives
loading (none being vehicles), all for use in mining,
excavating and tunneling; rock cracking and rock support
machines and drill arms for use in shifting, advancing and
positioning rock drilling machines and rock drills, all for
use in mining, excavating and tunneling; mechanical lifting
and adjustable platforms and self-propelled drilling rigs
and explosive loading rigs, all for use in mining,
excavating and tunneling; parts and fittings for all the
aforesaid goods. Vehicles including land vehicles and large or heavy
industrial vehicles for use in mining, excavating and
tunneling; land vehicles adapted for conveying, deploying,
loading, lifting and transportation of explosives,
explosives compositions and explosives initiating devices;
drill carriages, scaling wagons, being vehicles for use in
mining excavating and tunneling; parts and fittings for all
the aforesaid goods. Provision of scientific, engineering, advisory, consultancy
and technical support services to the mining, excavating and
tunnelling industries and to users of explosives and
explosives initiating systems and devices; design,
implementation, assessment, monitoring and recording of
blasting applications including supply and delivery of
explosives, explosives compositions, explosives initiating
devices and explosives accessories; designing and/or
programming software in the field of mining, excavating and
tunnelling; conducting and analysing blast site surveys;
engineering project management; engineering risk analysis;
all the aforesaid provided to the mining, excavating and
tunnelling industries and to users of explosives; provision
of non-downloadable software in relation to the aforesaid;
advisory information and consultancy in relation to the
aforesaid.
12 - Land, air and water vehicles; parts of land vehicles
37 - Construction and mining; installation and repair services
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
(1) Apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems [machines] for the manufacture, supply, deployment, loading and use of explosives, explosives compositions, and explosives initiators being semi-automated machines for preparing and loading blast holes with explosives compositions and explosives initiators for mining, excavating and tunneling, and parts and fittings for all the aforesaid goods; apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems [machines] for conveying, deploying, loading, lifting and transportation of explosives, explosives compositions and explosives initiators, namely, conveyors being machines and pumps being parts of machines, motors and engines for explosives, explosives compositions and explosives initiators, and parts and fittings for all the aforesaid goods; apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems [machines] for use in mining, namely, mining machines in the nature of excavating machines, drilling rigs, drills for the mining industry, mine borers, mine dewatering machines, robots and robotic arms for mining, blast hole drilling machines, and parts and fittings for all the aforesaid goods; apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems [machines] namely, automated machines and machine tools for clearing debris being excavating machines and rock debris sweeping machines for mines, rock drilling sites, blasting sites, blast holes, excavating sites and tunnels, and parts and fittings for all the aforesaid goods; apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems [machines], namely, automated apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for dewatering being pneumatic and electric dewatering pumps for mines, blasting sites, blast holes, excavating sites and tunnels, and parts and fittings for all the aforesaid goods; drilling rigs, drilling assemblies [machines], drilling machines, drilling units [machines], drilling rods, rock drills, self-propelled drilling assemblies [machines], hydraulic drilling rigs, explosives charging rigs, all for use in mining, excavating and tunneling, and parts and fittings for all the aforesaid goods; automated equipment for rock drilling, namely, drill units (none being vehicles), automated equipment for explosives loading (none being vehicles), all for use in mining, excavating and tunneling, and parts and fittings for all the aforesaid goods; rock cracking and rock support machines and robotic arms for drilling for use in shifting, advancing and positioning rock drilling machines and rock drills, all for use in mining, excavating and tunneling, and parts and fittings for all the aforesaid goods; mechanical lifting and adjustable lifting platforms and self-propelled drilling rigs and explosive loading rigs, all for use in mining, excavating and tunneling, and parts and fittings for all the aforesaid goods.
(2) Vehicles, namely, land vehicles and large and heavy industrial vehicles for use in mining, excavating and tunneling, land vehicles adapted for conveying, deploying, loading, lifting and transportation of explosives, explosives compositions and explosives initiators, for use in mining, excavating and tunneling, drill carriages, scaling wagons, being vehicles for use in mining excavating and tunneling, and parts and fittings for all the aforesaid goods (1) Management of rock and soil blasting; explosive blasting, namely, blast initiating services, explosive blast hole drilling services, explosive blast hole loading services; placement, control and containment of explosives, explosive initiators, and explosive blasts as part of explosive blasting services and explosives blasting management services related thereto; explosive blast hole drilling services and explosive blast hole loading services for mining, excavating and tunnelling; maintenance, installation, servicing and repair of apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems being loading machines for the manufacture and supply of explosives, explosives compositions and explosives initiators, apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for conveying, deploying, loading, lifting and transportation of explosives, explosives compositions and explosives initiators, namely, conveyors being machines and pumps being parts of machines, motors and engines for explosives, explosives compositions and explosives initiators, apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for use in mining, namely, mining machines, apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems, namely, automated apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for clearing debris being excavating machines and rock debris sweeping machines for mines, rock drilling sites, blasting sites, blast holes, excavating sites and tunnels, apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems, namely, automated apparatus, machines, machine tools and systems for dewatering being pneumatic and electric dewatering pumps for mines, blasting sites, blast holes, excavating sites and tunnels, drilling rigs, drilling assemblies, drilling machines, drilling units, drilling rods, rock drills, self-propelled drilling assemblies, hydraulic drilling rigs, all for use in mining, excavating and tunneling, automated equipment for rock drilling, namely, drill units, all for use in mining, excavating and tunneling, rock cracking and rock support machines and drill arms for use in shifting, advancing and positioning rock drilling machines and rock drills, all for use in mining, excavating and tunneling, mechanical lifting and adjustable platforms and self-propelled drilling rigs, all for use in mining, excavating and tunneling, vehicles, namely, land vehicles and large and heavy industrial vehicles for use in mining, excavating and tunneling, land vehicles adapted for conveying, loading, lifting and transportation of explosives, explosives compositions and explosives initiators, drill carriages, scaling wagons, mining vehicles, all being vehicles for use in mining excavating and tunneling and parts and fittings for the aforesaid goods.
(2) Provision of engineering advice, engineering consultancy and technical support services to the mining, excavating and tunnelling industries and to users of explosives and explosives initiating systems and explosives initiators, all the aforesaid services provided to the mining, excavating and tunnelling industries and to users of explosives; design of explosives, explosives initiators, all the aforesaid services provided to the mining, excavating and tunnelling industries and to users of explosives; designing and programming software in the field of mining, excavating and tunnelling, all the aforesaid services provided to the mining, excavating and tunnelling industries and to users of explosives; conducting and analysing blast site surveys, all the aforesaid services provided to the mining, excavating and tunnelling industries and to users of explosives; engineering project management services in the field of explosives engineering services in the mining, quarrying, and construction industries, all the aforesaid services provided to the mining, excavating and tunnelling industries and to users of explosives; engineering risk analysis in the field of explosives engineering services in the mining, quarrying, and construction industries, all the aforesaid services provided to the mining, excavating and tunnelling industries and to users of explosives; provision of non-downloadable software for the formulation of explosives, explosives compositions, and blast initiators.
01 - Chemical and biological materials for industrial, scientific and agricultural use
07 - Machines and machine tools
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
12 - Land, air and water vehicles; parts of land vehicles
13 - Firearms; explosives
37 - Construction and mining; installation and repair services
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Chemicals used in the mining, quarrying, and construction
industries; nitrogen-containing chemicals, including
ammonium nitrate. Mining, quarrying, and construction apparatus; mining,
quarrying, and construction machines; apparatus for chemical
processing; machines and apparatus for the treatment,
production, and dispensing of mining, quarrying, and
construction chemicals and chemical compositions, including
explosive compositions. Scientific apparatus, namely, measuring, signalling and
sensing or checking instruments, namely, electronic devices
for data recording and transmitting to check for, record and
report on blast hole data or conditions, blast initiation
device and explosives function, blasts in the nature of
explosions, identification, positioning, firing and
inventory; data recording apparatus, namely, computers;
computer peripheral devices, namely, monitors, printers,
keyboards, hard disc drives, blank CDs, blank DVDs, flash
drives, modems, CD and DVD players; computer software,
namely, computer operating software for blast design, blast
data processing, and blast analysis, and the use and
operation of and testing, logging, connecting, transmitting
and initiating devices used in programming blasts and
explosions, for managing blast and blast outcomes
(explosions), programming blasts (explosions) and for
recording, retrieval, reporting, storage, and analysis of
information for particular completed blasts (explosions);
data management systems comprised of computer hardware and
software for managing, recording, reporting, retrieval,
storage, and analysis of data and information in connection
with blasts in the nature of explosions and for the use and
operation of testing, logging, connecting, transmitting and
initiating devices used in programming blasts and
explosions; communications software, namely, communication
software for connecting local area networks, wide area
networks, and global computer networks, all for blast design
and managing, recording, reporting, retrieval, storage, and
analysis of data and information in connection with blasts
in the nature of explosions and for the use and operation of
testing, logging, connecting, transmitting and initiating
devices used in programming blasts and explosions; software
facilitating blast design, blast programming, blast data
processing, and blast outcome analysis; electronic
apparatus, instruments and equipment, namely, electronic
timing modules, devices for logging the encoded
identification of blast initiation devices and their
components, devices for logging the position of blast
initiation devices and their components, devices for
acquiring blast data; all of the aforementioned goods for
use in the mining, quarrying, and construction industries
and to users of explosives in such industries. Vehicles including land vehicles and large or heavy
industrial vehicles adapted for transporting, conveying, and
dispensing of chemicals and chemical compositions, including
explosives and explosives compositions, used in the mining,
quarrying, and construction industries; parts, fittings and
accessories for the aforesaid. Explosives and explosives compositions for use in mining,
construction, excavation, road-making and related
industries; explosives including bulk and packaged
explosives; primers for explosives; blast initiators and
blast programming equipment namely detonators, primers,
fuses, signals, cutting charges and detonating blasts;
explosives initiating systems; equipment for initiating
explosives blasts. Blasting and blast management services; explosive blasting
services, explosive blast hole drilling services; explosive
blast hole loading services; placement, control and
containment of explosives and explosive blasts and
explosives blasting management services related thereto;
explosive blast hole drilling services and explosive blast
hole loading services for mining extraction, quarrying, and
construction; supply and use of explosives and explosives
compositions; all the aforesaid services being for the
mining, quarrying and construction industries; provision of
advisory information and consultancy in relation to the
aforesaid services. Provision of scientific, engineering, advisory, consultancy
and technical support services to the mining, quarrying, and
construction industries and to users of explosives in such
industries; design, implementation, assessment, monitoring
and recording of explosive blast information including data
relating to the formulation, supply, and delivery of
explosives, explosives compositions, and explosives
accessories and including designing and/or programming
software; explosive blast design; conducting blast site
surveys and analysing blast site survey data; engineering
project management; engineering risk analysis; all the
aforesaid provided to the mining, quarrying, and
construction industries and to users of explosives in such
industries; design explosives and explosive blasts.
68.
AUTOMATED APPARATUS FOR STORING, TRANSPORTING, DISPENSING AND ASSEMBLING INITIATION DEVICES CONFIGURABLE FOR INITIATING EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL COMPOSITIONS
Disclosed is a magazine apparatus including a first magazine and a second magazine. The first magazine is configured for holding, carrying and dispensing first initiation device components. The second magazine is configured for holding, carrying and dispensing second initiation device components. The first magazine and the second magazine are configured to dispense the first initiation device components and the second initiation device components in a corresponding manner such that a dispensed one of the first initiation device components and a correspondingly dispensed one of the second initiation device components can be assembled together to form a structurally complete, unified initiation device for loading into a borehole.
AUTOMATED SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES FOR STORING, TRANSPORTING, DISPENSING, AND TRACKING INITIATION DEVICE COMPONENTS CONFIGURABLE FOR INITIATING EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL COMPOSITIONS
Disclosed is a system that includes a magazine. The magazine is configured for holding and dispensing initiation devices or initiation device components having respective non-contact readable identification (ID) codes. The magazine includes one or more initiation device tracking unit(s) configured for reading the non-contact codes of the initiation devices or initiation device components for tracking the initiation devices or the initiation device components.
B65G 1/06 - Storage devices mechanical with means for presenting articles for removal at predetermined position or level
G06K 19/07 - Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards with integrated circuit chips
G06K 7/10 - Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. optical sensingMethods or arrangements for sensing record carriers by corpuscular radiation
A method of mining in a rock formation, includes drilling blastholes extending into the rock formation. Each of the blastholes has a depth between a first end and a second end. For each blasthole the second end thereof is deeper into the rock formation than the first end thereof. The method further includes loading the blastholes with alternating layers of explosives charges and stemming material to establish a succession of blasting decks or sections extending across and within the rock formation. The rock formation includes at least a first blasting deck or section and a second blasting deck or section.
In an embodiment, a photoinitiation apparatus includes: a set of illumination sources or elements configured for outputting optical energy; a body structure having a proximal body structure portion confining a proximal volume of explosive medium, an intermediate body structure portion confining an intermediate volume of explosive medium, and a distal body structure portion confining a distal volume of explosive medium, wherein the proximal volume of explosive medium is optically coupled to portions of the first volume of explosive medium, at least one of the proximal volume of explosive medium and the distal volume of explosive medium is a tertiary explosive medium, and (a) the body structure does not carry a primary explosive composition and does not carry a secondary explosive composition, and/or (b) each of the proximal, intermediate, and distal volumes of explosive media has an initiation sensitivity that is less than cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX) based explosive compositions.
A supply system supplies an explosives material and comprises an explosives material delivery mechanism, a bin, a first outlet, a first removable cover, a port and an operation tool. The bin has an upper end, a lower end, and an interior volume that provides a first compartment for storing the explosives material. The first compartment has a corresponding lower end. The first outlet at the lower end of the first compartment feeds the explosives material from the first compartment to the explosive material delivery mechanism. The first removable cover is placed on a second outlet at the lower end of the compartment. The port is at the upper end of the bin by which the explosives material is loadable into the first compartment. The operation tool allows installation and removal of the first removable cover by way of the port without requiring any personnel to enter into the bin.
Disclosed is a geophysical or seismic exploration system. The system comprises a set of explosive device magazines configured for carrying a plurality of explosive device components, wherein the explosive device components are configurable to form individual explosive devices, and wherein each explosive device carries a set of explosive compositions and is configured for collimating an explosive shock wave produced thereby into a quasi-planar shock wave output from a distal end of the explosive device to produce a geophysical or seismic exploration wave. The system also includes a set of unmanned explosive device deployment support vehicles, wherein each unmanned explosive device deployment support vehicle comprises an aerial or land-based unmanned vehicle configured for carrying an explosive device magazine and delivering the explosive device magazine to a first in-field location at which each explosive device is deployable for carrying out a geophysical or seismic exploration operation.
Disclosed is a system for assisting blasting. The system includes at least one wireless blasting-related device that is deployable or deployed proximate to or within a portion of physical media intended to be blasted as part of a commercial blasting operation. The blasting-related device includes a device-based magnetic induction (MI) signal receiver with a magnetometer configured for through the earth (TTE) MI communication, and the blasting-related device includes a device-based MI signal source with a device-based antenna configured for TTE MI communication. The device-based MI signal source is configured to communicate with a vehicle-based MI signal receiver in a blast support vehicle that includes a set of vehicle-based magnetometers.
F42C 15/42 - Arming-means in fuzesSafety means for preventing premature detonation of fuzes or charges wherein the safety or arming action is effected electrically from a remote location, e.g. for controlled mines or mine fields
01 - Chemical and biological materials for industrial, scientific and agricultural use
07 - Machines and machine tools
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
12 - Land, air and water vehicles; parts of land vehicles
13 - Firearms; explosives
37 - Construction and mining; installation and repair services
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
(1) Chemicals used in the mining, quarrying, and construction industries, namely, flowable blasting agents including flowable blasting agents based on nitrogen-containing chemicals, specifically ammonium nitrate.
(2) Mining, quarrying, and construction apparatus, namely, blending machines for chemical processing in the field of mining, quarrying, and construction; mining, quarrying, and construction machines in the nature of agitators for chemical processing, blending machines for chemical processing, and dispensing machines for chemical processing for use with chemicals, blasting compounds and explosives, and chemical compositions for use in mining, quarrying and construction.
(3) Scientific apparatus, namely, measuring, signalling and sensing and checking instruments, namely, electronic data recorders and transmitters to check for, record and report on blast hole data and conditions, blast initiators and explosives function, blasts in the nature of explosions, identification, positioning, firing and inventory; data recording apparatus, namely, computers; computer peripheral devices, namely, monitors, printers, keyboards, hard disc drives, blank CDs, blank DVDs, flash drives, modems, CD and DVD players; computer software, namely, computer operating software for blast design, blast data processing, and blast analysis, and the use and operation of and testing, logging, connecting, transmitting and initiating devices used in programming blasts and explosions, for managing blast and blast outcomes (explosions), programming blasts (explosions) and for recording, retrieval, reporting, storage, and analysis of information for particular completed blasts (explosions); data management systems comprised of computer hardware and software for managing, recording, reporting, retrieval, storage, and analysis of data and information in connection with blasts in the nature of explosions and for the use and operation of testing, logging, connecting, transmitting and initiating devices used in programming blasts and explosions; communications software, namely, communication software for connecting local area networks, wide area networks, and global computer networks, all for blast design and managing, recording, reporting, retrieval, storage, and analysis of data and information in connection with blasts in the nature of explosions and for the use and operation of testing, logging, connecting, transmitting and initiating devices used in programming blasts and explosions; software facilitating blast design, blast programming, blast data processing, and blast outcome analysis; electronic apparatus, instruments and equipment, namely, electronic timing modules, electronic data recorders for logging the encoded identification of blast initiators and their components, electronic data recorders for logging the position of blast initiators and their components, electronic data recorders for acquiring blast data; all of the aforementioned goods for use in the mining, quarrying, and construction industries and to users of explosives in such industries.
(4) Vehicles used in the mining, quarrying, and construction industries, namely, land vehicles and large and heavy industrial land vehicles adapted for transporting, conveying, and dispensing of chemicals and chemical compositions and explosives and explosives compositions, used in the mining, quarrying, and construction industries; parts, fittings and accessories for the aforesaid.
(5) Explosives and explosives compositions for use in mining, construction, excavation, road-making and related industries; explosives including bulk and packaged explosives; primers for explosives; blast initiators and blast programming equipment namely detonators, primers, fuses, signals, cutting charges and detonating blasts; explosives initiating systems; equipment for initiating explosives blasts. (1) Blasting and blast management services in mining, construction, excavation, and road-making industries; explosive blasting services, explosive blast hole drilling services; explosive blast hole loading services; placement, control and containment of explosives and explosive blasts and explosives blasting management services related thereto; explosive blast hole drilling services and explosive blast hole loading services for mining extraction, quarrying, and construction; supply and use of explosives and explosives compositions; all the aforesaid services being for the mining, quarrying and construction industries; provision of advisory information and consultancy in relation to the aforesaid services.
(2) Provision of scientific, engineering, advisory, consultancy and technical support services to the mining, quarrying, and construction industries and to users of explosives in such industries; designing and programming of software, namely non-downloadable software for implementing, assessing, monitoring and recording of explosive blast information and data relating to the formulation, supply, and delivery of explosives, explosives compositions; explosive blast design; conducting blast site surveys and analysing blast site survey data; engineering project management services in the field of explosives engineering services in the mining, quarrying, and construction industries; engineering risk analysis in the field of explosives engineering services in the mining, quarrying, and construction industries; all the aforesaid provided to the mining, quarrying, and construction industries and to users of explosives in such industries; design of explosives and explosive blasts conducted across arrays of blast holes in mining, quarrying, and construction industries;
01 - Chemical and biological materials for industrial, scientific and agricultural use
07 - Machines and machine tools
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
12 - Land, air and water vehicles; parts of land vehicles
37 - Construction and mining; installation and repair services
Goods & Services
Explosives and explosives compositions, namely, blasting explosives for use in mining, construction, excavation, road-making and related industries; explosives; explosives, namely, fluid explosive compositions Chemicals used in the mining, quarrying, and construction industries; nitrogen-containing fluid explosive chemical compositions in the nature of sensitized fluid explosive chemical compositions containing ammonium nitrate Mining, quarrying, and construction apparatus, namely, mining, quarrying, and construction machines for chemical processing; machines and apparatus for the treatment, production, and dispensing of mining, quarrying, and construction chemicals, chemical compositions and explosive compositions Measuring, signalling and sensing or checking scientific instruments, namely, electronic devices for data recording, transmitting, checking, recording and reporting blast hole data and conditions related to delivery of explosive compositions into blast holes and explosions produced thereby; computer software, namely, downloadable computer operating software for blast design, blast data processing, and blast analysis; computer software, namely, downloadable computer operating software for managing explosion blast and blast outcomes, programming explosion blasts and for recording, retrieval, reporting, storage, and analysis of information for particular completed explosion blasts; data management systems comprised of computer hardware and downloadable software for managing, recording, reporting, retrieval, storage, and analysis of data and information in connection with blasts in the nature of explosions; communications software, namely, downloadable communication software for connecting local area networks, wide area networks, and global computer networks, all for blast design and managing, recording, reporting, retrieval, storage, and analysis of data and information in connection with blasts in the nature of explosions; downloadable software for facilitating blast design, blast programming, blast data processing, and blast outcome analysis; electronic devices for acquiring blast data; all of the aforementioned goods for use in the mining, quarrying, and construction industries and to users of explosives in such industries Vehicles used in the mining, quarrying, and construction industries, namely, land vehicles and large and heavy industrial land vehicles adapted for transporting, conveying, and dispensing of chemicals, chemical compositions, explosives, and explosives compositions used in the mining, quarrying, and construction industries Blasting and blast management services in mining, construction, excavation, road-making and related industries; explosive blasting services in mining, construction, excavation, road-making and related industries; explosive blast hole loading namely, formulation, placement, control and containment of explosives into blast holes in mining, construction, excavation, road-making, and related industries and explosives blasting management services related thereto; explosive blast hole loading services for mining extraction, quarrying, and construction; all the aforesaid services being for the mining, quarrying and construction industries; provision of advisory information and consultancy in relation to the aforesaid services in the field of mining extraction, quarrying, and construction
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Data recording apparatus, namely, computers for blast design, blast data processing, and blast analysis Provision of scientific research, engineering, engineering advisory, engineering consultancy and technical support services in the nature of engineering information to the mining, quarrying, and construction industries and to users of explosives in such industries; designing and programming of software for implementing, assessing, monitoring and recording of explosive blast information including data relating to the formulation, supply, and delivery of explosives, explosives compositions, and explosives accessories; conducting blast site surveys and analyzing blast site geological survey data; engineering project management; engineering services, namely, engineering risk analysis; all the aforesaid provided to the mining, quarrying, and construction industries and to users of explosives in such industries; design of explosives and explosive blast devices conducted across arrays of blast holes in mining, quarrying, and construction industries
The present invention relates to a water-in-oil (W/O) emulsion explosive comprising one or more of graphene oxide (GO), partially reduced graphene oxide (prGO), and functionalized graphene oxide (fGO). There is also provided a method of improving one or more properties of a water-in-oil (W/O) emulsion explosive.
C06B 47/14 - Compositions in which the components are separately stored until the moment of burning or explosion, e.g. "Sprengel"-type explosivesSuspensions of solid component in a normally non-explosive liquid phase, including a thickened aqueous phase comprising a solid component and an aqueous phase
(1) Explosives and explosives compositions namely, explosive powders, blasting compounds and blasting explosives for use in mining, construction, excavation, road-making, and industries related to geophysical and seismic surveys and exploration; explosives namely, bulk and packaged explosives; primers for explosives; detonators namely, electronic, electric and non-electric detonators, wireless electronic detonators; blast initiators and blast programming equipment, namely detonators, boosters, primers, fuses, signals, cutting charges and detonating blasts; explosives accessories namely, transmitter explosive caps, connecting blocks for connecting shock tube detonators, primers, leg wires and fuses; detonating relays for use with detonators, primers; explosive devices and its parts namely, shock wave conductors in the nature of explosive fuses, shock tubing and explosive boosters for non-electric and electric initiation of explosives; explosives initiating systems consisting at least in part of detonators, primers, signals, fuses, cutting charges, shock wave conductors in the nature of explosive fuses, shock tubing, explosive boosters, explosive caps, and connecting blocks for connecting shock tube detonators; equipment for initiating explosives blasts, namely, explosive initiators.
Explosives and explosives compositions for use in mining, construction, excavation, road-making and related industries; explosives including bulk and packaged explosives; primers for explosives; detonators including electronic, electric and nonelectric detonators, wireless electronic detonators; blast initiators and blast programming equipment, namely, explosives accessories, namely, transmitter caps, connecting blocks, primers, leg wires and fuses; detonating relays for use with detonators, primers; explosive devices and its parts, namely, explosive wavefront conductors, shock wave conductors, shock tubing and boosters in this class, for non-electric or electric initiation of explosives; equipment for initiating explosives blasts
37 - Construction and mining; installation and repair services
39 - Transport, packaging, storage and travel services
40 - Treatment of materials; recycling, air and water treatment,
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
(1) Explosives and explosives compositions being explosive powders, blasting compounds and blasting explosives, namely, bulk and packaged explosives containing recycled, previously used waste oil for use in mining, construction, excavation, road-making and related industries and bulk and packaged explosives manufactured from recycled, previously used waste oil for use in mining, construction, excavation, roadmaking and related industries (1) Explosive blast management services in mining, construction, excavation, and road-making industries, and explosive blasting services, and explosive blast management services in mining, construction, excavation, and road-making industries, and explosive blasting services relating to explosive blasts utilizing explosive compositions formulated with recycled, previously used waste oil, and supply and use of explosives and explosive compositions for blasting services, placement and control of explosive blasts for blasting services, and provision of advisory information and consultancy in relation to the aforesaid services
(2) Services relating to the collection and transportation of oils namely, previously used waste oil for the purpose of the manufacture of explosives and explosive compositions and substances and components used in the formulation of explosives being explosive powders, blasting compounds and blasting explosives.
(3) Services relating to the treatment, processing, blending, mixing, recycling, and refinement of oils, namely, previously used waste oil for the purpose of the manufacture of explosives and explosive compositions and substances and components used in the formulation of explosives being explosive powders, blasting compounds and blasting explosives, and custom manufacture of explosives and explosive compositions, namely, bulk and packaged explosives containing recycled, previously used waste oil, and information advisory and consultancy in relation to the aforesaid services
(4) Explosive blast design services
82.
3D block modelling of a resource boundary in a post-blast muckpile to optimize destination delineation
A method for 3-D block modelling of a resource boundary in a post-blast muckpile to optimize destination delineation for resource control is provided. An in-situ pre-blast model of an ore deposit to be mined, movement data, blast design and explosive loading information, and post-blast topographic data are input in to the memory of a general purpose computer. Using the pre-blast block model, movement data, blast design and explosive loading information, and post-blast topographic data a three-dimensional vector field is generated. The method uses the three-dimensional vector field to move a plurality of centroids of the in-situ block model to populate a three-dimensional post-blast location. Then method optimizes the populated three dimensional post-blast location to determine a plurality of sets of optimal dig boundaries.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
Goods & Services
Computer hardware for computer-generated images; downloadable computer software for imaging, visualization, simulation and mapping of geospatial data in the field of mining exploration
84.
EXPLOSIVE DEVICE CONFIGURED FOR PRODUCING A QUASI-PLANAR SHOCK WAVE
An explosive device configured for outputting a quasi-planar shock wave includes: a body structure having a proximal end and an opposing distal end, and within which (a) an initiation device chamber; (b) a donor charge having a geometric shape correlated with first cone having an internal void exhibiting a geometric shape correlated with a second cone, wherein a first base of the first cone and a second base of the second cone reside in a common plane and have a common center point; (c) a non-explosive wave shaper filling the void; and (d) an acceptor charge are sequentially disposed adjacent to each other in a direction toward the distal end. Perpendicular to the central axis, a maximum lateral span of each of the wave shaper, the donor charge, and the acceptor charge coincide. The acceptor explosive charge mass does not laterally extend to a set of body structure outer walls.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Scientific apparatus including measuring, signaling and
checking instruments, namely, electronic devices for data
recording and transmitting to check for, track, record and
report on explosives function and blasts in the nature of
explosions, identification, positioning, firing and
inventory; data recording apparatus, computers, computer
peripheral devices, computer software, communication
software all for managing, recording, tracking, reporting,
retrieval and storage of data and information in connection
with blasts in the nature of explosions; data management
systems comprised of computer hardware and software for
managing, recording, tracking, reporting, retrieval and
storage of data and information in connection with blasts in
the nature of explosions; software for facilitating the
delivery of goods; electronic apparatus, instruments and
equipment, namely, electronic timing and tracking devices,
devices for logging the encoded identification of electronic
detonators and their components, devices for logging the
position of electronic tracking devices; all of the
aforementioned goods for use in the mining and excavation
industry and to users of explosives. Provision of advisory, consultancy and technical support
services related to computer hardware and software for
mining explosives and the excavation industry and to users
of explosives; design, implementation, assessment,
monitoring and recording of blasting software applications
including supply of explosives and explosives accessories;
explosives design; conducting and analysing blast site
surveys; engineering project management; engineering risk
analysis; all of the aforementioned services provided
personally or by means of an information distribution medium
and all of the aforementioned services provided to the
mining and excavation industry and to users of explosives.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Scientific apparatus including image capture instruments,
measuring, analysing, signaling and checking instruments,
namely, electronic devices for data recording and
transmitting to check for, record and report on detonator
and explosives function, blasts and outcomes or results of
blasts in the nature of explosions, identification,
positioning, firing and inventory; data recording apparatus,
computers, computer peripheral devices, computer software,
communication software all for managing, recording,
analysing, reporting, retrieval and storage of data and
information in connection with blasts and outcomes or
results of blasts in the nature of explosions and for the
use and operation of testing, logging, connecting,
transmitting, initiating, and post-blast monitoring and
analysis devices used in analysing and programming blasts
and explosions; data management systems comprised of
computer hardware and software for managing, recording,
analysing, reporting, retrieval and storage of data and
information for managing, recording, analysing, reporting,
retrieval and storage of data and information in connection
with blasts and outcomes or results of blasts in the nature
of explosions and for the use and operation of testing,
logging, connecting, transmitting and initiating devices
used in blasting and analysing and programming blasts and
explosions; software for facilitating the delivery of goods;
electronic apparatus, instruments and equipment, namely,
electronic timing modules, devices for image capture, image
analysis, and analysis of blasts and outcomes or results of
blasts in the nature of explosions; all of the
aforementioned goods for use in the mining and excavation
industry and to users of explosives. Provision of advisory, consultancy and technical support
services related to computer hardware and software for
mining explosives and the excavation industry and to users
of explosives; design, implementation, assessment,
monitoring and recording of blasting software applications
including supply of explosives and explosives accessories;
explosives design; conducting and analysing blast site
surveys; engineering project management; engineering risk
analysis; all of the aforementioned services provided
personally or by means of an information distribution medium
and all of the aforementioned services provided to the
mining and excavation industry and to users of explosives.
An aspect of the present invention relates to a method of mining in a rock formation, comprising: drilling blastholes extending into the rock formation, each of the blastholes having a depth between a first end and a second end, wherein for each blasthole the second end thereof is deeper into the rock formation than the first end thereof; loading the blastholes with alternating layers of explosives charges and stemming material to establish a succession of blasting decks or sections extending across and within the rock formation including a first blasting deck or section and at least a second blasting deck or section, wherein each blasting deck or section beyond the first blasting deck or section extends deeper into the rock formation than the first blasting deck or section; and after establishing the multiple blasting decks or sections extending across and within the rock formation, selectively initiating the explosives charges in a series of stages based on blasting deck or section proceeding consecutively from the first blasting deck or section to each successive blasting deck or section, wherein during initiating the explosives charges in a given blasting deck or section, the explosive charges in each deck or section successive to the given blasting deck or section are slept, and wherein after each stage excavation takes place to progress mining in an intended direction.
In an embodiment, a photoinitiation apparatus includes: a set of illumination sources or elements configured for outputting optical energy; a body structure having a proximal body structure portion confining a proximal volume of explosive medium, an intermediate body structure portion confining an intermediate volume of explosive medium, and a distal body structure portion confining a distal volume of explosive medium, wherein the proximal volume of explosive medium is optically coupled to portions of the first volume of explosive medium, at least one of the proximal volume of explosive medium and the distal volume of explosive medium is a tertiary explosive medium, and (a) the body structure does not carry a primary explosive composition and does not carry a secondary explosive composition, and/or (b) each of the proximal, intermediate, and distal volumes of explosive media has an initiation sensitivity that is less than cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX) based explosive compositions.
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
(1) Scientific apparatus including image capture instruments, measuring, analysing, signaling and checking instruments, namely, electronic data recorders, data processors, and transmitters to check for, record and report on detonator and explosives function, blasts and outcomes and results of blasts in the nature of explosions, identification, positioning, firing and inventory, data recording apparatus, namely, computers, computer peripheral devices, namely, monitors, printers, keyboards, hard disc drives, blank CDs, blank DVDs, flash drives, modems, CD and DVD players, computer memories, computer software, communication software all for managing, recording, analysing, reporting, retrieval and storage of data and information in connection with blasts and outcomes or results of blasts in the nature of explosions and for the use and operation of testing, logging, connecting, transmitting, initiating, and post-blast monitoring and analysis devices used in analysing and programming blasts and explosions, data management systems comprised of computer hardware and software for managing, recording, analysing, reporting, retrieval and storage of data and information for managing, recording, analysing, reporting, retrieval and storage of data and information in connection with blasts and outcomes or results of blasts in the nature of explosions and for the use and operation of testing, logging, connecting, transmitting and initiating devices used in blasting and analysing and programming blasts and explosions, electronic apparatus, instruments and equipment, namely, electronic timing modules in the nature of electronic data recorders for image capture, image analysis, and analysis of blasts and outcomes or results of blasts in the nature of explosions, all of the aforementioned goods for use in the mining and excavation industry and to users of explosives (1) Provision of advisory, consultancy and technical support services for diagnosing image capture and image data processing computer hardware and software for mining explosives and the excavation industry and to users of explosives, designing and programming of software for implementing, assessing, monitoring and recording of explosive blast information and data relating to the formulation, supply, and delivery of explosives, explosives compositions, and explosives accessories, explosives design, conducting and analysing blast site surveys, engineering project management services in the field of explosives engineering services in the mining and excavation industry, engineering risk analysis in the field of explosives engineering services in the mining and excavation industry, all of the aforementioned services provided personally, and via a global computer network, and all of the aforementioned services provided to the mining and excavation industry and to users of explosives
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
13 - Firearms; explosives
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
(1) Scientific apparatus including measuring, signaling and checking instruments, namely, electronic data recorders and transmitters to check for, track, record and report on explosives function and blasts in the nature of explosions, identification, positioning, firing and inventory, data recording apparatus, namely, computers, computer peripheral devices, namely, monitors, printers, keyboards, hard disc drives, blank CDs, blank DVDs, flash drives, modems, CD and DVD players, computer software, communication software all for managing, recording, tracking, reporting, retrieval and storage of data and information in connection with blasts in the nature of explosions, data management systems comprised of computer hardware and software for managing, recording, tracking, reporting, retrieval and storage of data and information in connection with blasts in the nature of explosions, tracking devices in the nature of geo location and global positioning system (GPS) consisting of computers, computer software, transmitters, receivers, and network interface devices, electronic data recorders for logging the encoded identification of electronic detonators and their components, electronic data recorders for logging the position of electronic tracking devices, all of the aforementioned goods for use in the mining and excavation industry and to users of explosives
(2) Electronic apparatus, instruments and equipment, namely, electronic timing modules in the nature of fully programmable electronic detonators (1) Provision of advisory, consultancy and technical support services for diagnosing computer problems in the field of computer hardware and software for mining explosives and the excavation industry and to users of explosives, designing and programming of blasting software for implementing, assessing, monitoring and recording of explosive blast information and data relating to the formulation, supply, and delivery of explosives, explosives compositions, and explosives accessories, explosives design, conducting and analysing blast site surveys, engineering project management services in the field of explosives engineering services in the mining and excavation industry, engineering risk analysis in the field of explosives engineering services in the mining and excavation industry, all of the aforementioned services provided personally, and via a global computer network, and all of the aforementioned services provided to the mining and excavation industry and to users of explosives
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Scientific apparatus including measuring, signaling and checking instruments, namely, electronic devices for data recording and transmitting to check for, track, record and report on explosives function and blasts in the nature of explosions, identification, positioning, firing and inventory; data recording apparatus, computers, computer peripheral devices, downloadable computer software and downloadable communication software all for managing, recording, tracking, reporting, retrieval and storage of data and information in connection with blasts in the nature of explosions; data management systems comprised of computer hardware and recorded software for managing, recording, tracking, reporting, retrieval and storage of data and information in connection with blasts in the nature of explosions; downloadable software for facilitating the transfer or delivery of goods or explosive blast products; electronic apparatus, instruments and equipment, namely, electronic identification devices, electronic timing devices, and tracking devices, devices for logging the encoded identification of electronic detonators and their components, devices for logging the position of tracking devices; all of the aforementioned goods for use in the mining and excavation industry and to users of explosives Provision of advisory, consultancy and technical support services, namely, application, deployment, in-field use, and troubleshooting in the nature of diagnosing computer hardware and computer software problems in the field of tracking devices, for mining explosives and the excavation industry and to users of explosives; provision of advisory and consultancy services in the application, deployment, in-field use, and troubleshooting in the nature of diagnosing computer hardware and computer software problems in the field of tracking devices, technical support services in the nature of diagnosing tracking device, computer hardware, and computer software problems; design, implementation, assessment, monitoring and recording of blasting software applications including supply of explosives and explosives accessories, and monitoring positions of tracking devices used in explosive blasts; explosives design; conducting and analysing blast site surveys; engineering project management; engineering risk analysis; all of the aforementioned services provided personally or by means of an information distribution medium and all of the aforementioned services provided to the mining and excavation industry and to users of explosives
42 - Scientific, technological and industrial services, research and design
Goods & Services
Provision of advisory, consultancy and technical support services, namely, application, in-field use of, and troubleshooting in the nature of diagnosing computer hardware and software problems all for computer software for recording, analyzing, and tracking explosive blast outcomes in the mining and excavation industries, to users of explosives; provision of advisory and consultancy services in the deployment and in-field use of computer hardware, and technical support services in the nature of diagnosing computer hardware problems; design, implementation, assessment, monitoring and recording of blasting software applications including determining and analyzing blast outcomes, supply of explosives, and explosives accessories; explosives design; conducting and analysing blast site surveys; engineering project management; engineering risk analysis; all of the aforementioned services provided personally or by means of an information distribution medium and all of the aforementioned services provided to the mining and excavation industry and to users of explosives
09 - Scientific and electric apparatus and instruments
Goods & Services
Scientific apparatus including measuring, signaling and checking instruments, namely, electronic devices for data recording and transmitting to check, analyze, track, record and report on blast outcomes and/or explosives function in the nature of explosions, identification, positioning, and firing; data recording apparatus, computers, computer peripheral devices, downloadable computer software and downloadable communication software all for managing, recording, analyzing, tracking, reporting, retrieval and storage of data and information in connection with explosive blasts in the nature of blast outcomes; data management systems comprised of computer hardware and recorded software for managing, recording, tracking, reporting, retrieval and storage of data and information in connection with blasts in the nature of explosions; downloadable software for facilitating the delivery of goods; electronic apparatus, instruments and equipment, namely, image capture and processing devices, and devices for, generating, analyzing, and communicating blast outcome data and blast outcome data analyses; all of the aforementioned goods for use in the mining and excavation industry and to users of explosives
94.
RECONFIGURABLE EXPLOSIVES MATERIALS TRANSPORT AND DELIVERY SYSTEM
An apparatus including a supply system that is adapted for supplying at least a first explosives material, the supply system comprising: at least a first explosives material delivery mechanism; a bin having an upper end, a lower end, and an interior volume that provides at least a first compartment for storing an explosives material, the first compartment having a corresponding lower end; at least a first outlet provided at the lower end of the compartment for feeding the first explosives material from the first compartment to the first explosives material delivery mechanism; at least a first removable cover for a second outlet at the lower end of the compartment, and installable thereon and removable therefrom; a port provided at the upper end of the bin by which the explosives material is loadable into the first compartment; and an operation tool that is adapted to allow installation and removal of the first removable cover by way of the port without requiring any personnel to fully or partially enter into the bin.
An apparatus comprising: a tank for containment and delivery of an explosives material, the tank comprising an elongate hollow body extending about a longitudinal axis, the body 5 having a transverse cross-sectional profile having a plurality of distinct curved regions that provide enhanced structural rigidity to the tank so a plurality of interior surfaces of the tank that in use will contact explosives material are free from discontinuities.
The present invention relates to a water-in-oil (W/O) emulsion explosive comprising one or more of graphene oxide (GO), partially reduced graphene oxide (prGO), and functionalized graphene oxide (fGO). There is also provided a method of improving one or more properties of a water-in-oil (W/O) emulsion explosive.
An underground shaft development method comprises: (a) drilling blastholes extending into a rock formation, each drilled from a starting location defining a first blasthole end to an ending location defining a second blasthole end; (b) loading the blastholes with alternating layers of explosives charges and stemming material to provide multiple blasting decks across and within the formation, including at least a first blasting deck corresponding to the first blasthole ends and a final blasting deck corresponding to the second blasthole ends, wherein each blasting deck carries wireless blasting devices; and (c) detonating the explosive charges in a series of blasting stages based on blasting deck by initiating the wireless blasting devices in each blasting deck, proceeding consecutively from the first blasting deck to the final blasting deck, wherein after each blasting stage excavation takes place to progress the shaft in an intended direction.
A wireless initiation device comprises a power source, a processing module, a first housing and an initiation unit. The processing module processes wireless electromagnetic communications signals received by an electromagnetic receiver system associated with the processing module. The wireless electromagnetic communications signals includes a wireless electromagnetic communications signal representative of a FIRE command. The processing module is configured to generate an initiation signal upon receipt of the FIRE command. At least one of the power source and the processing module is disposed in the first housing, and the first housing has a first connector. The initiation unit has a second housing within which is disposed an initiation module that is configured to discharge initiation energy sufficient to initiate an explosive charge associated with the device. The initiation module is connected to, or connectable with, the processing module such that initiation module can receive an initiation signal from the processing module. The initiation unit also has a second connector that is configured to mate with the first connector, thereby connecting the first and second housings. The initiation module is configured to execute a sequence upon receipt of the initiation signal, the sequence resulting in discharge of initiation energy from the initiation unit.
This invention provides a hose for conveying an emulsion explosive together with an annular stream of aqueous solution around the emulsion explosive as a lubricant, wherein the hose comprises an internal surface that reduces disruption of the annular stream during conveying of the emulsion explosive. Also provided is a method of producing this type of hose and practical applications of the hose in commercial mining and blasting operations.
E21C 37/00 - Other methods or devices for dislodging with or without loading
F15D 1/02 - Influencing the flow of fluids in pipes or conduits
F16L 11/12 - Hoses, i.e. flexible pipes made of rubber or flexible plastics with arrangements for particular purposes, e.g. specially profiled, with protecting layer, heated, electrically conducting
F42D 1/10 - Feeding explosives in granular or slurry formFeeding explosives by pneumatic or hydraulic pressure
