Hyderabad: The technical committee of the Srisailam Left Bank Canal (SLBC) decided to use only the drill and blast method to ...

HOWARD COUNTY, MD — A meeting will be held Thursday for the community to learn more about the upcoming tunnel blasting project as part of the Ellicott City Safe and Sound plan's north tunnel ...

Blasting is set to resume near Old Ellicott City next week as Howard County crews start digging a massive tunnel to redirect flood waters away from the historic mill town’s Main Street. After some ...

Currently, the application only considers the north and south ends of the proposed tunnel. The company is ... to five years that they are drilling and blasting through our Great Lakes bottomlands.

By 1870 the railway had arrived, bringing modernity in its wake. It was a monumental undertaking that included blasting a tunnel 15 kilometers (9 miles) long through the tough granite shoulder of ...

Blasting explosives like gunpowder, nitroglycerin, and dynamite all work well for carving a tunnel through a mountain. The dense rock walls can support themselves, and they won't collapse into the ...

KSEB seeks CIMFR experts to resolve blasting issues for Upper Sengulam hydroelectric project in Idukki district, Kerala.

Nitroglycerin was first used in 1867 to excavate the Hoosac Tunnel in North Adams, Massachusetts. That same year, Swedish physicist Alfred Nobel patented another blasting explosive called dynamite.