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 Scope of the Project Clearing and stripping Rock blasting and…
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 Grout to break rock to provide aid in the use…
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 the entrance roadway to direct rock breaking forces away from…
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 to break oversize boulders at Kelowna Sand & Gravel Provide…
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 to vent. In all residential blasting, urban blasting and close-proximity…
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, which will improve fragmentation for your rock breaking and concrete…
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 most common for rock drilling by hand (often referred to…
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 catastrophic and even lethal, the public are very quick to…
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 the low-explosive in Nxburst. The non-detonating technology minimizes and reduces…
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) of 1.88mm/s measured at 15m. Fly rock less than 10m…