Golden West Chapter Newsletter Archive

Prior to 2007, the Golden West Chapter newsletter, The Primer, was published in hard copy and mailed to members. Commencing with the Spring 2007 issue, it was published in electronic form on the Chapter website. Below are links to these later issues.		To see the very first newsletter, click here. Through the years various articles were published in The Primer. Some of these are listed below. Click to view them. Permission to use these in other publications can be obtained from the webmaster here.
Early Spring 2007 Spring 2007 Summer 2007 Winter 2007 Spring/Summer 2009 Summer 2009 Fall 2009 Winter 2009 Spring 2011 Late Spring 2011 Summer 2011 Winter 2011 Spring 2013 Summer 2013 Fall 2013 Winter 2013 Spring 2015 Summer 2015 Fall 2015 Winter 2015 Spring 2017 Summer 2017 Fall 2017 Winter 2017 Spring 2019 Summer 2019 Fall 2019 Winter 2019 Spring 2021 Summer 2021 Fall 2021 Winter 2021	Spring/Summer 2008 Summer 2008 Fall 2008 Winter 2008 Spring 2010 Summer 2010 Fall 2010 Winter 2010 Spring 2012 Summer 2012 Fall 2012 Winter 2012 Spring 2014 Summer 2014 Fall 2014 Winter 2014 Spring 2016 Summer 2016 Fall 2016 Winter 2016 Early Spring 2018 Summer 2018 Fall 2018 Winter 2018 Spring 2020 Summer 2020 Fall 2020 Winter 2020 Spring 2022	Blasting Concrete at Box Canyon Dam Blasting Under a Bucket Line Dredge Blasting Potash near Carlsbad, NM Mt. Redoubt Revisited Seismic Shooting at Permanente Digital Daze Kartchner Caverns Blast Vibration Limits on Pipelines San Francisco 1906 Earthquake Earthquakes on Blasting Seismographs Can Blasting Trigger an Earthquake? Seismic Anomalies Destroying Explosives at Silver Peak Unusual Uses for Explosives PPV vs. the Richter Scale Blasting to Open Ramelli Pit The 10-1/2 Foot Pole List How Much is Too Much? A Project for the Disarming of Anti-Personnel Mines Flyrock Revisited - on the Web Blasting with a GPS Blasting Near Water Wells Trials and Tribulations in Shooting a Well Calibrating Nevada Too Much AND Too Fast Ghosts Don’t Complain About Blasting The Helms Creek Pumped Storage Project Seismograph Monkey Business Larkspur Landing

Papers from Technical Workshops:

Back to Basics – The Fundamentals of Blast Design

(This document was originally presented at the Chapter’s 1999 workshop.

It was revised and re-published as a newsletter supplement in 2008.)

Understanding Blast Vibration and Airblast,Their Causes and Their Damage Potential

(This document was presented at the GW Chapter’s workshops in 2006 and 2007.)

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