Blackwater coal blasts

Coal Blasting at Blackwater in 2008

[@Dallas-Nyberg]

..and....sorry about screwing up the landscape?........These coal fields are left looking like the moon when the mining companies leave......it ends up as useless land...

[@kezadrone]

How much money was spent on the explosives for that job? The first one or last, damn that video was cool.

[@อาคมมากบุญ-ภ7ฐ]

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[@ignatiusdemonseed]

looking back... if i had opened my mind more as a teen, I could have been an explosives engineer instead of an engineer deciding how coal was burned... it would have been much more rewarding to blow shit up!

[@nerwusek19]

Thats for diamonds, minerals or just for rocks?

[@nshar24]

Sparki - coal mine mate

[@อาคมมากบุญ-ภ7ฐ]

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[@calixtomelo1213]

Foda! 🤛✨💎❤️👏💎✨🤛

[@Verity12ful]

I'm assuming this was meant to be a throw blast, woeful result, shot hardly moved. What was the tie up.

[@อาคมมากบุญ-ภ7ฐ]

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[@mucbeanz]

. . at least thats how canada handles old gravel pits etc. they naturally fill with water then species are introduced makes some amazing future fishing holes

[@Dallas-Nyberg]

@mucbeanz Not where I come from...the old coal mining areas look like shit and have looked that way for years...trees won't even grow there.

[@อาคมมากบุญ-ภ7ฐ]

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[@timfrye9947]

Wind Noise is disappointing. Mute would be better, as I AM FORCED TO DO.

[@อาคมมากบุญ-ภ7ฐ]

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[@josephastier7421]

5:28 It is amazing how well incompressible water will transmit and redirect power.

[@orbfile]

I dislike this - incredibly. I'm sure the river beds love all those rocks and the animals in that environment love having less or no water to swim/bathe in. Plus, the extra elements that they are not used to breathing and eating. Wonderful.

[@lockdown727]

The fires from coal in the air make this cool sound like a rocket

[@MrDraketoby]

any body monitor air blast. good greif, holes blowing out left and right

[@andyj025]

so much earth is being moved from those blasts! Amazing stuff thanks for the video. I would love to be a shotfire !!

[@Xtinnoker]

Where I come from there are no more active coal mines, The people that worked in them minis are without a job with many are homeless, All because of one man. What a shame my country has become.

[@davidflanagan3396]

No coal no steel. A plastic world

[@wappco]

Awesome footage of how to let explosives do the work in removing overburden. The pre-split shot at the end was very well done. As to the post mining condition of strip mine lands, I own several thousand acres of such land, most of which has been reseeded and reforested for wildlife use, while other areas are used for recreation as well as residential and industrial development. No better place for an airport in mountain terrain.

[@willc5366]

Damn bro that’s cool shit like fuck

[@PhilJonesIII]

This is just overkill. There has to be easier ways to get rid of anthills.

[@nicynodle2]

You thin that's overkill, just think about how they killed that mouse in Hiroshima

[@peakarach7051]

Next time just using nukes to remove the whole mountain.

[@brianwickline6560]

Guys, the alien race gave them the technology to destroy us for them. Jeez, catch up.

[@liamforde4137]

3:39 "That ****'s hot!" haha

[@mucbeanz]

youd be surprised how fast a pool will get frogs snakes insects, algae and greenery

[@อาคมมากบุญ-ภ7ฐ]

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[@lozarok]

Great Pit Blackwater and footage - cheers

[@Excelcior58]

Thanks for the blasts guys, keep my A/C running!

[@brandontheblinddude5302]

They’re actually blasting in my neighborhood not too far from my house. You hear an airhorn, then boom!!! The ground shakes like crazy. Awesome stuff.

[@michaeltaylor8084]

Awesome

[@BGQV]

3:03

[@อาคมมากบุญ-ภ7ฐ]

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[@alpereninan9500]

5:07 wtf is this?

[@dylanthompson1050]

Hi mate, how do you go about landing a shotfiring job?

[@dustinscheller7795]

That 1 blast caught the coal in 🔥

[@rguy2684]

Love it!

[@shortbutlovable]

boom!!

[@stnicholas54]

3.35 - was that supposed to happen ?

[@alvinolson1]

Impressive Clips . Helps to undersatnd the open cast process. I made a clip up of my visit and uploaded for my friends

[@KD-ss7rf]

Coal shots and cast blasts, gotta love both

[@roverchips]

nice to see ppl actually enjoying this vid

[@elijahchandani2602]

hey dad

[@tasman763]

Kool to see what my mate Daz does for a crust, and where he does it . nice vids !

[@megatwingo]

5*****

[@willygarcia958]

Para que hacen eso?

[@mucbeanz]

@pyrofella lakes my friend lakes and fishes

[@samuelanketell8190]

Pretty cool

[@cashhcoww]

2:00 wow

[@BGQV]

2:01 this is a blast

[@BGQV]

3:02

[@BGQV]

3:30

[@t64norton]

Awesome job. Love the cast shots. You using nonel or electric?

[@Artuso720]

Are you sure you don't mean blackthunder mine?

[@daleighcom1]

Artuso720 It's Blackwater in QLD, Australia.

[@ka73sk]

Ho ho great balls of fire.

[@Verity12ful]

Messing looking blast.

[@TheZulAzmi]

nice blast

[@comaradella]

birds&trees

[@barticus04]

@Shalinar45 Australia!!

[@6goldie8]

Good video footage...dreadful potential result for the health of those living nearby

[@MrPJ0077]

Awesome

[@Koaslice191]

The person that designs these blasts truly is deserving of the title "Master Blaster" !

[@Horseman7849]

Epic

[@electrohunter77]

One of the best videos in the subject. Excellent documentation.

[@elijahchandani1]

Thanks man

[@elijahchandani1]

This was my father's work

[@elijahchandani1]

He's a legend it was shis birthday yesterday

[@mikeybnz]

bloody outstanding mate....i really would like to havea a go at doing this stuff!

[@davidflanagan3396]

Hard work no fun and you can't watch. Must be safe from fly Rock. It happens

[@mcpaplus]

Where is Blackwater? Wyoming?

[@craigslattery1901]

Queensland

[@lrhcconrad2230]

New York ! Lol

[@cainlolsson97]

The firey explosions, is that because of the coaldust self-igniting?

[@vince38curious2]

+Cain Lolsson Simple answer " YES"

[@cainlolsson97]

***** Simple answer is good enough answer to me :)

[@vince38curious2]

+Cain Lolsson Actually the second explosion was probabley IN MY opinion either the wrong type of exsplosive or should have had the seperate charges set with a slight delay for the Purity of the coal layer they were blasting into..To Avoid the possibility of setting the coal seam on fire.. That said IT WAS Impressive ( COOL )

[@nicynodle2]

I'm think it was the coal powder igniting, considering the fact then anything powered (that can be burned or is flammable) turns into an explosive and is very easy to ignite.

[@Rick_Foley]

3:29 Too much FO in the ANFO.

[@gravelsandwich]

no that's a coal shot. They leave a primed booster about the ground that timed to go off when the coal dust cloud rises. All that dust is flammable.

[@superfisk09]

Blasting and then sirens...!?!

[@wanzsilver5373]

That not missfire???

[@kalumbabwale3729]

These are such poor quality blasts its depressing to look at...

[@philbox4566]

Nope, all coal around Blackwater. There's enough coal in Queensland for the next half a million years at current consumption.

[@BeNoS69]

5.30 now thats one way to fill a dam real quick. a very nice vid. i remember em blasting at peak downs right opposite the build pad with no warning at all. ground shakes like crazy man its cool. might have to become a shot firer me thinks.

[@jackiesanders489]

As a service engineer for a Drill MFG co, I installed blast hole drills in Black Thunder. The mining starts with Drilling, without them it's just a piece of land, YET no one tells about the importance of the Blast hole Drill,or reviews them and how they are built and used. "SAD" Without the Blast Hole Drill all those big trucks and loaders are just a pile of scrap iron.

[@lrhcconrad2230]

Here have a cookie ! Good work

[@Userisyin]

Can't help but feel sad about how we are as specie.

[@arivelho7891]

Why do you feel that way?

[@ignatiusdemonseed]

I agree. We could make MUCH larger explosions.

[@lrhcconrad2230]

Think of how it felt 100 years ago . You have a voice now

[@jackieeastom8758]

The Canadian medical system can help you with those feelings

[@Mudjimba23AT]

All the while you are on a device that can not be without mining 🤦‍♂️

[@ATOM09]

I wonder how long it takes the dust to settle.

[@probmxjona]

like 3 minutes

[@pipdoesstuff3709]

ATOM09 I can see it from town