A MINING firm is being accused of exploiting the coronavirus crisis to carry out excessive blasting at a controversial opencast site. Campaigners who live near the Bradley site, near Consett, claim ...

TEST blasting at a controversial opencast coalmine is due to start today. Banks Mining is scheduled to carry out the first explosive exercise at the Bradley site at Dipton, near Consett. The company ...

The popularity of electronic initiation in blasting is bound to grow as more opencast mines and quarries benefit from the reliability and accuracy of these systems and the broader impact of ...

Quality control is the most important factor in conducting blasting at an opencast mine, says environmental, opencast and civil drilling and blasting company DynaD director Chris Bester. He states ...

With a community rocked by plans for an opencast mine, two men have told how their childhood homes vibrated from blasting at a nearby mine. Opencasting has been a feature of the Northumberland ...