Ael Mining Services Limited

Aeci Mining Limited

Hendrik Cornelius Bezuidenhout

Elmar Lennox Muller

Pieter Stephanus Jacobus Halliday

Clifford Gordon Morgan

Cheryl Lynn Kelly

Andries Matthys Botha

Tondani Carol Tshikosi

Phillippus Rudolph Van Den Berg

Shane Pheasant

Samir Kumar Mukhopadhyay

George Diederick Labuschagne

An explosive booster for initiating, and thus causing detonation of, a bulk explosive, includes a hollow body comprising a base member and a sidewall projecting from the base member. The body defines an interior space between the base member and the sidewall for containing a detonable booster formulation in use. A hollow elongate initiator locating formation projects longitudinally into the interior space at least from the base member and defines an initiator channel that is open through the base member, for locating an explosive initiator in initiating proximity relative to a detonable booster formulation contained in the interior space in use. The initiator channel extends longitudinally along a central longitudinal axis thereof that is radially spaced from, and parallel to, a central longitudinal axis along which the interior space longitudinally extends.

Explosive booster

An explosive booster assembly () which includes a primary module () with a first housing () and a first booster (), wherein a detonator () is engageable with the first housing, and an auxiliary module (A) which comprises a second housing () with a second booster composition (), wherein the second housing () is interengageable with the first housing () to expose the first booster composition () to the second composition (), and wherein any number of substantially identical auxiliary modules (A) are engageable with one another in order to form a compound booster assembly.

Booster assembly

A signal tube connector which can be used with a number of signal tubes which includes a detonator receiving body and a retention member, wherein a signal tube locating space is formed between opposing surfaces of the body and the member and wherein the retention member is movable relative to the body and can be locked in place with a locking mechanism to retain signal tubes within the space.

Signal tube connector

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Pretoria, South Africa

Hendrik Cornelius Bezuidenhout