Emulsion is an explosive material made from liquid phase oxide mixed with oil phase (diesel or diesel oil) added by emulsifier to stabilize the emulsion phase. Glass micro-balloons or chemical gassing agent is used for spreading agent in order to create a hot spot atmosphere because the granular oxidizing is very small, which is about 0.001 mm.
Currently, the using of explosive emulsion is going wider in various mineral mining, either in cartridge or in a Mobile Mixer Unit (MMU) truck to the explosion hole.
To fulfill this, starting from May 2009, PT. MNK has succeeded producing the first commercial emulsion “On Site Plant (OSP)” located in Indomuro with the production capacity of 1.260 MT/Year.