Topex Inc. can provide explosives training, safety audits, vibration and fragmentation measurements, flyrock & airblast control and troubleshooting quickly and economically. We stress economically because most organizations cannot afford to retain this experience and expertise full time. Who could afford hundreds of thousands of dollars for staff and specialized equipment to be used only occasionally? Topex Inc. enables you to obtain this expertise, when you need it thereby reducing your "fixed" and "capital" costs.

Topex personnel have pioneered some mechanized loading applications such as pumpable watergels in underground pillar recovery, pneumatic cartridge loading in trenching, uphole loading techniques and emulsion re-pump systems in development blasting.

Troubleshooting: fume generation, sympathetic detonation, loading practices, firing sequence and timing selection

Vibration Monitoring: compliance issues, vibration damage levels, public relations

Safety Audites: on-site inspections, process hazard reviews, safety meetings and training, accident investigations

Explosives Training Courses: breakage mechanisms, explosives selection, blast design, types of blasting

Fly Rock and Air Blast Control: deternining proper stemming & burden and weather concerns

Fragmentation Analysis: WipFrag particle size distibution, size optimization, geology (jointing) effects

Wall Control Design: Highway rock cuts, quarry "final walls", tunnels and "drifting" practices