Patents Assigned to Mining Resource Engineering Limited
  • Patent number: 6405627
    Abstract: A kit for humanitarian demining operations and explosive ordnance disposal comprising a first sealed container holding a pre-measured amount of flammable nitroparaffin, and a second sealed container which can be opened and resealed, and which contains a product for sensitizing nitroparaffin to detonation using an initiation system. The second sealed container has a volume sufficient to contain both the pre-measured amount of flammable nitroparaffin and the product for sensitizing nitroparaffin to detonation. The kit may also contain an initiation system. Also disclosed is a method of using the kit to neutralize land-mines and unexploded ordnance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Mining Resource Engineering Limited
    Inventor: C. John Anderson