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What Determines How Heavy the Blasting Mats Must Be?
What Determines How Heavy the Blasting Mats Must Be? A Practical Guide from Petr Explosives Group – PEG Style Now that you know how many mats you need for coverage…
How to Estimate Blasting Mat Coverage and Required Mat Weight
We have many discussions in our Practical Explosives Training School (PETS) classes about how to calculate or/and/or estimate blasting mat coverage. One of the questions we hear most often from…
Lightning During Blast Loading: What Blasters Must Do and Watch For
Lightning During Blast Loading: What Blasters Must Do and Watch For Lightning is one of the most dangerous hazards you will face while loading a shot. A single strike —…
Fire Near an Explosives Magazine: Critical Procedures for Blasters and Site Supervisors
Fire Near an Explosives Magazine: Critical Procedures for Blasters and Site Supervisors Recent years of persistent dry conditions across much of the western United States have significantly heightened wildfire risks,…
What to Do If Your Explosives Magazine Is Broken Into
What to Do If Your Explosives Magazine Is Broken Into: Essential Procedures for Compliance and Safety In the explosives industry, the security of storage magazines constitutes a fundamental and continuous…
Why Are There So Many Burden and Spacing Methods in Blasting?
Understanding the Engineering Behind Blast Design Students entering the explosives industry are often surprised by the many formulas for calculating burden and spacing. American textbooks present one set of rules,…
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