MINNBLAST 2008

Lake Superior Chapter of ISEE

Fortune Bay, Lake Vermillion Tower, MN Thursday, March 13th

7:00 Registration (coffee hosted by Austin Powder Company)

Session 1 – Safety, Chairman: Joe Hejny

7:30 Micheal Young, President of Lake Superior Chapter of ISEE

Jenny LaBrun Membership Manager, ISEE

Welcome

8:00 (1) Thomas Lobb, MSHA

Bulk Truck Fire

8:30 (2) Sherwood D. Smith, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobbacco & Firearms

Industrial Programs

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9:00 Break (coffee hosted by Dyno Explosives)

Session 2- Timely Topics, Chairman: Joel Spaeth

9:30 (3) Dane Tittman, VibraTech Inc.

Blast Vibration Mapping at United Taconite

10:00 (4) Terry Zyduck, Dyno

Accuracy from Non-Electric Detonators

10:30 (5) Ken Tummel Continental Nitrogen

AN in North America

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11:00 Trade Show and Lunch

Session 4 – New and Interesting, Chairman: Tom Barkley

12:30 (6) Scott Scovira, Orica

Five Million Ton Blast

1:00 (7) Crisis Management

Russel Melton

1:30 (8) Jim Tieberg, Polymet

Blasting for Copper-Nickel

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2:00 Break (coffee hosted by Orica USA)

Session 5 – Saving the Best for Last, Chairman: Ron Shoden

2:30 (9) Larry Smelzer, KeeTac

Size Analysis at KeeTac

3:00 (10) Kurt Oakes, Olsen Explosives

You Can Teach an “Old Dog” New Tricks – A Success Story at ILC Resources

3:30 Closing Remarks

Shotgun Drawing