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25-9-277
Section 25-9-277 Handling and use of explosives and detonators. (a) Only designated persons
shall cut, cap, and issue capped fuses and explosives. (b) When cutting fuse, it shall be
cut square across with a sharp clean instrument and the cap crimper used shall be of a type
recommended by explosive manufacturers. A bench type crimper is recommended. (c) No explosives
container shall be opened with any metallic instrument. (d) No person shall remove any explosives
from a pit magazine without permission of the pit superintendent, foreman, or a person designated
by the operator. (e) Capped fuse or electric detonators shall not be stored within 50 feet
of other explosives, power lines, cables, or other electrical conductors. (f) Oils or other
combustible substances shall not be stored within 50 feet of any explosives. (g) Detonators
shall not be removed from containers except as they are used for capping fuses or, in the
case of electric detonators, as they are used in preparing primers,...
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25-9-278
Section 25-9-278 Blasting practices and procedures generally. (a) All blasting shall be done
in a safe manner after all persons have been removed to a safe place. (b) All blasting should
be done electrically or with detonating fuse. (c) Primers shall be made up near the working
place by competent persons experienced in handling explosives. Competent persons shall also
load, assist in loading, or supervise the loading or charging of drill holes. (d) Primers
shall be prepared in accordance with safety standards of the Institute of Makers of Explosives
or of the manufacturer of the explosives as approved by the chief. Holes made in the primer
cartridge for the purpose of inserting the detonator shall be made with a wooden or other
nonsparking implement. (e) In tamping holes, only a wooden tamping bar or other nonsparking
tamping bar shall be used. Before charging drill holes, except well holes, they shall be thoroughly
cleaned. Explosives shall not be violently tamped in the drill hole...
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25-9-276
Section 25-9-276 "Blasting agent" and "explosives" defined; storage and
transportation of blasting agents, explosives, and detonators generally. (a)(1) "Blasting
agent," as used in this article, means any material consisting of a mixture of fuel and
oxidizer which: a. Is used or intended for use in blasting; b. Is not classed as an explosive
by the State Department of Transportation; c. Contains no ingredients classed as an explosive
by the State Department of Transportation; and d. Cannot be detonated by a No. 8 blasting
cap when tested as recommended in Bureau of Mines information circular 8179. (2) The term
"explosives," as used in this article, includes blasting agents, unless blasting
agents are expressly excluded. (b) Main explosive storage magazines shall be located outside
of the pit and shall comply with Section 25-9-131. Blasting agents shall be stored in the
manner prescribed by Part 181, Title 26, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Department of the
Treasury, and...
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25-9-131
Section 25-9-131 Surface storage of explosives and detonators. (a) Separate surface magazines
shall be provided for the storage of explosives and detonators and shall be kept in good repair.
(b) Magazines shall be constructed of or covered with fire and weather resistant material,
shall be reasonably bullet proof and shall have no metal or sparking material exposed inside
the magazine. When a magazine is used for more than one type of explosive, each type shall
be stored separately. (c) The only openings shall be doors for entrance, which shall be securely
locked when unattended, and properly screened vents. (d) If artificial light is needed, only
an electric flashlight, electric lantern, or electric cap lamp shall be used. Smoking, carrying
of smokers' articles, or open flame are prohibited in or within 25 feet of any magazine. Combustible
materials, including rubbish and dry grass, shall be kept clear of any magazine for a distance
of 25 feet in all directions. (e) Other material...
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13A-10-191
Section 13A-10-191 Designation of explosives. The following materials are explosives within
the meaning of Act 2009-718: (1) Acetylides of heavy metals. (2) Aluminum containing polymeric
propellant. (3) Aluminum ophorite explosive. (4) Amatex. (5) Amatol. (6) Ammonal. (7) Ammonium
nitrate explosive mixtures, cap sensitive. (8) Ammonium nitrate explosive mixtures, noncap
sensitive. (9) Ammonium perchlorate composite propellant. (10) Ammonium perchlorate explosive
mixtures. (11) Ammonium picrate (picrate of ammonia, Explosive D). (12) Ammonium salt lattice
with isomorphously substituted inorganic salts. (13) Ammonium tri-iodide. (14) ANFO (ammonium
nitrate-fuel oil). (15) Aromatic nitro-compound explosives mixtures. (16) Baratol. (17) Baronol.
(18) BEAF [1,2-bis (2,2-difluoro-2-nitroacetoxyethane)]. (19) Black powder. (20) Black powder
based explosive mixtures. (21) Blasting agents, nitro-carbo-nitrates, including noncap sensitive
slurry and water-gel explosives. (22) Blasting caps. (23)...
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25-9-133
Section 25-9-133 Underground storage of explosives and detonators. (a) Underground section
boxes or magazines shall be constructed of substantial nonsparking material and shall be placed
in a crosscut or idle room neck at least 25 feet from roadways, trolley wires, or power lines,
at least 75 feet from any working face and in a reasonably dry and well rock dusted place,
free of oil, grease, or other debris. (b) Explosives and detonators shall be stored separately
and at least five feet apart. Not more than a 48-hour supply of explosives and detonators,
including any surplus remaining from the previous day, shall be stored underground in section
boxes or magazines. This maximum 48-hour supply will include supplies in individual or face
boxes where used. (c) A one day's supply of explosives and detonators may be kept in individual
or face boxes. Those boxes shall be wooden with hinged lids and shall be kept not less than
15 feet from roadways, trolley wires, or power lines; provided,...
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25-9-279
Section 25-9-279 Electrical blasting practices and procedures. (a) When loading or charging
blast holes with electric detonators, all electric power within an unsafe distance of the
place to be blasted shall be deenergized. (b) Electric blasting with blasting machines or
special circuit is permissible. With blasting machines, connections shall be made in series
or in a combination connection recommended by the manufacturer. With power currents, connections
shall be made in series, parallel, or a combination of the two. (c) When blasting is by means
of a special blasting circuit, no one shall enter the place in which the blasting has been
done until the permanent blasting wires have been disconnected from the source of electrical
energy and the blasting switch has been locked in the open position. (d) The person responsible
for blasting shall be in charge of the blasting machine when it is in the pit. No other person
shall connect the blasting machine to the leading wires, and such...
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25-9-134
Section 25-9-134 Blasting practices and procedures generally. (a) Only competent persons shall
be designated or permitted to handle explosives or do blasting. Only electric detonators of
proper strength may be used and the use of delay electric detonators is prohibited for blasting
coal or coal and other material. Primers shall be made up as needed for blasting and prepared
in accordance with the safety standards of the Institute of Makers of Explosives or of the
manufacturer of the explosives as approved by the chief; provided, however, that nothing provided
in this subsection shall prohibit the use of permissible millisecond blasting in conformity
with the requirements, exceptions, limitations, conditions, and restrictions on the use thereof
established or hereinafter established by the Bureau of Mines of the United States Department
of the Interior. (b) Care shall be used in placement and drilling of holes. Test roof, face,
ribs and timbers for dangerous conditions before drilling...
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25-9-136
Section 25-9-136 Misfires. (a) Where misfires occur with electric detonators, the person firing
the shots shall disconnect his firing cable from the source of power and short circuit it
by reshunting the ends of the cable. No person shall return to the shot until five minutes
has elapsed from the misfire, and the firing cable must not be left behind anyone returning
to the face. (b) If a defect in the firing cable or connections is found, another attempt
may be made to fire the shot or shots, exercising such cautions as covered in Section 25-9-134,
subsection (f), subdivision (5). (c) If the misfire is definite, explosives shall be removed
by drilling and firing the bore hole for a separate charge at least two feet away from and
parallel to the misfired charge, or by washing the stemming and the charge from the bore hole
with water or by inserting and firing a new primer after the stemming has been washed out.
(d) A very careful search of the working place, and if necessary, of the...
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10A-21-2.04
Section 10A-21-2.04 Condemnation for rights-of-way or easements by mining, manufacturing, industrial,
power, and quarrying companies. (a) Every mining, manufacturing, industrial, power, and quarrying
corporation or company may acquire by condemnation rights-of-way or easements over or across
the lands or easements of others for ways and rights-of-way on or under which it may erect
or construct and operate railways, tramways, pipelines, transmission lines, cables, ways,
roads, and underground passages not exceeding 100 feet in width for the purpose of connecting
any part of its lands, works, plants, mines, lines, or system with any other part thereof,
with any public road, railroad, navigable water, with the mines, lands, works, plants, lines,
or system of any other such company, corporation, or owner or with any shipping, storage,
delivery, receiving, or distributing point and for the purpose of transporting or transmitting
any materials, equipment, or products used by or mined,...
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