Five Years Old!

Mining Mayhem is five years old this week. To celebrate, it's time for the annual video. This time it's a unique way of eliminating pest species.

Saraji Blast Damage

This incident happened last Monday, at the Saraji Mine. I didn't get any other details, so if you know, please comment below.

Edit 7/9/12: Additional photo sent in.

Burnt Bomb Truck

Some more great photos sent in this week my a reader. The float must have caught on fire, and then set fire to its cargo, a million-dollar bomb truck. This incident happend on the 3rd May, at Brockman.

Giant Flyrock

That is an amazingly large rock. Someone was very lucky that they weren't sitting in that lounge chair.

Blasting Operations in the Middle East

This series of photos was sent in this week by a keen reader. I'll try and avoid all the obvious jokes here, but feel free to add them to the comments.

Dangerous fumes

This is why you don't smoke around explosives.




Edit 7/12/10 - Additional photos. Apparently this guy survived. Amazing.