“…Most of that NO x remains dissolved in the aqueous phase but a fraction enters the nitrogen bubbles (da Silva et al, 2006a, b;da Silva et al, 2007), and then the atmospheric environment. The NO x mitigation technologies employed in post combustion plants (Baukal et al, 2001;Dvořák et al, 2010;Gómez-García et al, 2005;Hill and Smoot, 2000;Skalska et al, 2010) do not apply to blasting activities. This is because: (a) the post-explosion atmospheric mixture does not yield itself to capturing, scrubbing, treatment and/or reprocessing; (b) AN exhibits incompatibilities with materials (Table 3) (Bretherick et al, 1999) that could serve for scavenging NO x .…”