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Three ways to eliminate fines in blasting Posted on 03 Mar 2022 in the featured & Features & From the Magazine categories.

Anthony Konya, vice president of Precision Blasting Services shares three methods to help eliminate fines during the blasting process.

Overcoming Oversize: Oversize and confinement (Part 4) Posted on 17 Sep 2021 in the featured & Features & From the Magazine categories.

Anthony Konya explores how overconfinement creates oversize and looks at where oversize originates using a 4D view of the blasting process.

Overcoming Oversize: Oversize and spacing (Part 3) Posted on 17 Sep 2021 in the featured & Features & From the Magazine categories.

Anthony Konya addresses how improper blasthole spacing causes oversize to form in a blast pattern, as well as how to use post-blast results to determine spacing changes.

Overcoming Oversize: Oversize and stiffness ratio (Part 2) Posted on 13 Jul 2021 in the featured & Features & From the Magazine categories.

Part 2 of P&Q's four-part "Overcoming Oversize" series explores the bench stiffness mechanism and how improperly designed benches ultimately lead to increases in oversize.

Overcoming Oversize: Caprock in blasting (Part 1) Posted on 14 Jun 2021 in the featured & Features & From the Magazine categories.

Part 1 of Pit & Quarry's four-part "Overcoming Oversize" series focuses on the location and treatment of oversize in the stemming zone.

The 4 most costly blasting mistakes you can make Posted on 09 Apr 2021 in the featured & Features & From the Magazine categories.

Improperly addressing certain mistakes will lead to increased drilling and blasting costs and performance decreases. Precision Blasting Services' Anthony Konya explains why.

New methodology to optimize quarry blasts Posted on 13 Jan 2021 in the featured & Features & From the Magazine categories.

An innovative approach to blast design has produced results that were previously unfound in the aggregate industry.

Blaster’s guide to lightning safety Posted on 19 Oct 2020 in the featured & Features & From the Magazine categories.

There are a number of precautions sites must take to protect blast crews from dangers caused by thunderstorms and lightning.

Blasting: The story of breaking rock Posted on 11 Sep 2020 in the featured & Features categories.

The final chapter in P&Q’s special series offers a history of blast design and what’s ahead to optimize quarry blasting.