The SEE Education Foundation will award $73,000 to students pursuing degrees related to the explosives industry. Each year the Scholarship Committee receives, reviews and scores more than 70 applications.

This year there will be an award of $7,500 given to one well-qualified student! To be eligible, students must be pursuing a technical, undergraduate, master’s or doctorate degree in fields of study related to the commercial explosives industry. Students will be assessed on their academic and professional achievements, goals related to the industry, personal challenges and financial need.

The application deadline is May 5, 2017. Download your application today.

The Ohio Drilling and Blasting Conference kicks off from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 29, 2017, with a welcome reception and exhibits. On Thursday, learn about various topics such as underground blasting, waveforms, public relations, demolition blasting, current compliance issues and more.

Although retraining credit hours have been accepted in the past by a number of states, due to recent changes in regulations, you need to be careful and check with your state regulators to be sure you receive the proper retraining credit hours from this conference.

Have you recently worked on a project that focuses on fragmentation by blasting? This is your chance to get your research published.

Submit your paper, including tables, graphics and images to the editors-in-chief at the link below. Be sure to state the name of the paper and the purpose of publication in the journal when submitting. The publisher or the editors-in-chief can supply relevant instructions for preparing your manuscript if you have any questions. They can be reached via email at blastfragsubscriptions@isee.org.

Edited and reviewed by expert researchers, industry professionals and academics, Blasting and Fragmentation presents contemporary analysis of engineering practices as related to explosives application to rock. It is published twice a year.

The market for industrial explosives is on a continuous rise due to rapid increase in mining activities, especially in the developing economies globally. It is projected to reach $15.9 billion by 2022, growing at 6.7% from 2016 to 2022, according to a new report by published by Allied Market Research. The mining segment dominated this market, occupying more than four-fifths share of the market revenue in 2015.

Moreover, increase in demand for earth minerals, such as bauxite, iron ore, coal, and rare earth metals, as well as gold and silver, is a key factor fuelling the market growth. In addition, growth in use of industrial explosives, especially in the construction industry for tunnelling and other applications, along with increase in inclination of construction professionals toward the use of industrial explosives to save time and labour costs drive the growth of the market.

Greenland may soon start building the world’s fifth-largest uranium mine and second-biggest rare earths operation, which could fuel independence dreams in the island, an "autonomous administrative division" within Denmark since 2009.

The proposed open pit mine in the southern town of Kvanefjeld is expected to process over 100 million tonnes of ore in the coming decades, helping Greenland to diversified its economy. According to Danish Radio, it would also alleviate the island’s dependence on a locked Danish subsidy of 3.2 billion DKK (about $500 million), which constitutes about half of its budget.

The largest US coal miner, bankrupt Peabody Energy, on Wednesday announced that its Australian president Charles Meintjes has been promoted to executive VP for corporate services and chief commercial officer.

Meintjes’ role will be effective following the company's reemergence from Chapter 11 reorganisation, and Meintjes will return to Peabody's global headquarters in St Louis, Missouri.

Peabody will seek US Bankruptcy Court approval in St Louis on Thursday, for a plan to cut more than $5-billion in debt and exit Chapter 11 in April.

Caterpillar‘s Jim Umpleby has had what is likely the busiest week of his short tenure as chief executive officer. Days after three of his company’s facilities were raided by federal officials as part of a criminal investigation into the company’s tax strategies, Umpleby was in Las Vegas for the company’s corporate press conference at ConExpo-Con/Agg — North America’s largest trade show.

And though Umpleby and his staff are nearly 2,000 miles away from the facilities searched by law enforcement officials last Thursday, questions concerning the investigation followed.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration recently announced the availability of up to $1 million in grants for education and training programs to help identify, avoid and prevent unsafe working conditions in and around the nation’s mines.

The Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006 established the Brookwood-Sago grant program to promote mine safety in honor of 25 miners who died in Brookwood, Alabama, in 2001 at the Jim Walter Resources #5 mine, and in Buckhannon, West Virginia, in 2006 at the Sago Mine.

Did you know the ISEE has an online career center that offers discounts to members looking to post jobs? Whether you’re a student looking for an internship or a business looking for a seasoned professional in the explosives industry, the ISEE job board, located at the ISEE website, is a great way to get noticed.

And one of the best parts is that it’s free for job seekers. Upload your resume today to get the attention of job posters or browse the job board for the latest openings. Visit the career center now.

March 28-30, 2017
Huntsville, Ala.

March 29-30, 2017
Worthington, Ohio

March 30-April 2, 2017
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

April 19-21, 2017
Spearfish, S.D.

April 22, 2017
Northborough, Mass.