You’re not supposed to carry the blasting caps on the same truck as the dynamite.🤔
“The guy that trained me said he’d done it this way for years and never had a problem.”
My first thought as well.
The caps are also transported in an armored heavily insulated box.
It is hard to imagine that a collision with a motorcycle could have set them off if they were packed properly.
I is also surprising that mining explosives would have created such a crater.
In most cases mining explosives are primarily ammonium nitrate/petroleum explosives that are mixed at the site with dynamite as the ignition source.
Usually only a small amount of dynamite is kept on hand.
But his is all from my knowledge of how it is done in the US. I have a friend that retired a few years ago as an explosives handler in the mining industry.
I guess you have to assume that in a place like Ghana things might be a bit more relaxed.
Yeah, and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve told biker dudes to stay away from the dynamite truck. Maybe the biker was hauling the nitro? Or at least something quicker than 50%. Hope they didn’t ruin a good bike?
This video purports to capture the actual explosion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD18g0UKoek
“You’re not supposed to carry the blasting caps on the same truck as the dynamite.”
Back in the day the mine manager where I worked used to drive 50 miles in a full size pick up truck loaded to the top of the bed with boxes of dynamite and the blasting caps on the passenger floorboard.
Perhaps the blasting caps were on the motorcycle?