Boulder Splitting & Breaking Expanding Grout, Civil Construction – Victoria BC
Project Contractors/Project Client Western Grater Contracting – Hazelwood Construction Services Project Details Widening McCallum Road to the north and installing two new signalized intersections at the entrances to Costco. Rock breaking oversize material using non-explosive GeoBreak Expanding Grout – Victoria, BC – February 2020, ongoing…
Residential Rock Breaking – Expanding Grout, Kelowna BC
Project Contractor T&A Rock Works Inc. Project Details Removing rock using GeoBreak Expanding Grout in residential area. Use non-explosive approach to aid the use of a rock breaker to reduce machine time –Kelowna, BC – completed February 2020 Scope of the Project Use GeoBreak Expanding…
Trail Construction, Expanding Grout – No Blasting
Project Contractor/Client Hazelwood Construction Services – Parks Canada Project Details Removing rock using GeoBreak Expanding Grout non-explosive demolition. Rock breaking conducted in a manner that avoids disturbance to the existing gate post which may require progress from side of the trail that is closest to…
Nxburst Training – Rock Blasting Contractor
Project Details T&A Rock Works Inc. hosting GeoBreak to provide Nxburst training for 7 of their blasters to use Nxburst in construction, logging and quarry applications – located in Kelowna, BC – completed October 2019 Scope of the Project Use various Nxburst Rock Breaking Cartridges…
The Importance of Blasting Mats When Rock Breaking
When using explosives for rock breaking, rock removal and rock excavations, blasting mats are required to control flying debris from a blast using explosive products. These blasting mats are usually constructed of recycled rubber tires and woven steel with gaps to allow for the gases…
Stemming For Safety When Rock Breaking
Stemming is inert material used to confine energy inside the drill hole. Pea gravel is a common stemming material used for high explosive products for rock breaking. Stemming material used for Nxburst rock breaking cartridges is a finer crush consistency to lock in the gases,…
Forty-gram Nxburst Rock Breaking Cartridges
Forty-gram Nxburst rock breaking cartridges are consistently used for oversized boulders and concrete demolition projects in civil construction and residential excavations. Forty-gram Nxburst rock breaking cartridges are available in 28mm and 34mm fit for a 1.25” and 1.5” diameter hole size. These hole sizes are…
Sensitive Blasting – A Worst Case Scenario – Nxburst Rock Breaking Cartridges
In any industry public relations can go a long way to helping you and in equal measure making your life difficult. No industry starts off on such a bad foot before anything is ever done more than blasting. As the consequences of a bad blast can be…
Blasting Rock 1m From Pipeline
Nxburst was used to blast rock in Australia 1 meter from pipeline. Using 50060 charge weights for 2.5″ hole size, Nxburst proved to be a viable and safe option in this blasting operation. Video provided by XCEL Drilling and Blasting. Close-proximity blasting is achievable using…
Sensitive Rock Breaking Mining – NXCO
Reef drive development in a chrome mine using Nxburst/Nonex Rock Breaking Cartridges. Sequential timing using the Maxclip 5 way clips. 4000ms down-the-hole, 200ms surface delay. Burden and Spacing of 500mm, 1.3m effective drill depth, 1.3m advance. No shockwave or arblast overpressure, Peak Particle Velocity (PPV)…