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.. <br />PROJECT CONSULTING EXPERIENCE Continued <br />Southdown, Inc., Houston, Texas - 1998. Conducted Blast Desi,Gn and Risk Management Workshop for <br />ytiarry managers at attltua( national meeting-Longmont, CO. Topics included principles of blast design, <br />controlled blasting tecl,niyucs and measures for preventing blast vibration acrd air-overpn:ssure damage <br />claims or litigatipn. <br />Barrctts Minerals, Inc., Dillon, Montana - 1998. Pzrformed Blasting Practices Audit and recommended <br />improvements designed to prevent losses of explosives to groundwater that mighs cause potential ammonia <br />and nitrate pollution. <br />INCO Lintitcd - "Smunth,s•all" Tunneling Project 1981. Conducted Blasting Method Rescarcl, at eight <br />different mines to establish Smuothwall Tunneling standards for 1NC0 development and large chamber <br />opening. <br />M1linidoka Dam Replacement Powerplant & Switchyard Project -January 1996 to present. Providing <br />blast design and 61ast affects control services to Superior Blasting. Inc. and Pirini Corporation, the blavting <br />and prime contractors, ruspcc[ively, at this very challenging U.S. Bureau of Reclamation project in Idaho. <br />B. Eng., Mining Engineering, 1980, Laurentian Untvcrsity, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada <br />PUBLICATIONS TRAINING AND PRESENT.4TION5 <br />Biannually Conduct ROCK BLASTING TECHNOLOGY AND RISK MANAGEMENT COURSE. <br />71tis tvvo-day program, sponsored by ASCE, is designed specifically for project managers, engineers, <br />attorneys and government agency professitmn',;. The course covers explosives end initiation system <br />technology, principles of controlled blast design, identitication of blasting risk and management strategies, <br />speciticetion dcvcloplnent, and cost estimatittp. , <br />Published "Underground Bull: lvtining Blast Design and r'ibration Monitoring at INCO Metal's <br />Sudbury Operations." Printed, August 30, 1991. I'roparcd for Canada Ccn[cr for Mineral Energy and <br />Technology. <br />Presented "Blasting a Tunnel Through Folsom Dam " a paper describing controlled blastinE, planning, <br />and testing methods used to successfully blot an air-imake tunnel through [he Folsom Dam. Despite <br />blasting under the pressure of a very tight sche. etuie and near many critical cir„crnrns--inclnAine mdin) pyres, <br />trunnion snchors, a roadway, geed a concrete spra}n+all, all blasting occurred without damage. <br />EdltOr and COOVlbadng author to "Explosives and Rocl: f31as1ing;' a wmprchcnsivo La~1 <uvLi <br />blasting handbook published by .Atlas Po,vder Company in 1987. <br />Presented paper titled, "Controlled Blasting et the Hanging Lake Tunnels Project" at the annual <br />Socizt}' of Explosives Engineers mcaing in Los Vegos, Nl+, ]anuary', 1991. <br />Presented "Controlled Excevetiolt at the Trana-koolau Halawa Tunnels" paper at the Society of <br />F..xplnsivcs Engineers annual meeting in San DieEo, California, January, 1993. <br />Gortlon F. Revey -Qualifications Page 6 Phone: (303) 470-0418 Fax: (303) 791-0140 <br />