A Malta-flagged cargo ship loaded with 20,000 tons of potentially explosive material has departed from a port in Norway to ...

Ammonium nitrate is a crystal-like white solid commonly used as a source of nitrogen for agricultural fertiliser. But it can also be combined with fuel oils to create an explosive used in the ...

Additionally, mining strip ratios are expected to increase over time, with more explosives required to mine the same amount of ore. Given these dynamics, we expect demand for ammonium nitrate to ...

But the UK has welcomed it in and now highly explosive ammonium nitrate is due to dock at Great Yarmouth port. Just 2,750 tonnes of fertiliser caused the explosion that devastated Beirut four ...

A cargo ship packed with potentially explosive ammonium nitrate remains adrift in the English Channel off the coast of France. The Maltese-registered Ruby is carrying 20,000 tonnes of the chemical ...

A potential explosion aboard a damaged Malta-flagged cargo ship carrying ammonium nitrate from Russia could cause a blast as ...

Officials are investigating the disappearance of a 30-ton shipment of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used to make both fertilizer and explosives, PBS affiliate KQED reported. A railcar loaded with ...

Even before the explosion in Beirut, people in Newcastle, New South Wales, were asking for a large stockpile of ammonium nitrate in a warehouse 3km from the city centre to be moved or reduced.

When improperly stored or exposed to stressors like heat and pressure, ammonium nitrate can become highly unstable and explosive. Notably, ammonium nitrate was the same substance responsible for ...

Ammonium nitrate is a fertiliser which caused a huge explosion in Beruit in 2020, killing 218 people, after it was stored incorrectly. Ruby, the damaged cargo ship, has now left Margate.

That is more than seven times the amount of ammonium nitrate -- used in fertilisers as well as in explosives -- that detonated in Lebanon in 2020, devastating the port of Beirut. After the vessel ...