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                                                                     Exhibit 5.1

                       LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP

                              125 West 55th Street
                             New York, NY 10019-5389
                                  May 29, 2007


Dynamic Materials Corporation
5405 Spine Road
Boulder, Colorado  80301

Ladies and Gentlemen:

      We are acting as counsel for Dynamic Materials Corporation, a Delaware
corporation (the "Company"), in connection with the preparation and filing with
the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), of the Company's registration
statement on Form S-8 (the "Registration Statement") for the registration of
950,000 shares of the Company's common stock, par value $0.05 per share (the
"Stock"), to be issued and sold pursuant to the Company's 2006 Stock Incentive
Plan and 1997 Equity Incentive Plan (the "Plans").

      In connection with this opinion, we have examined originals or copies,
certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of (i) the Registration
Statement, (ii) the Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, and the Bylaws, as
amended, of the Company, as in effect on the date hereof, (iii) resolutions of
the Board of Directors of the Company, dated April 8, 2004 and August 2, 2006,
authorizing the issuance of the Stock and (iv) such other instruments,
certificates, records and documents, and such matters of law, as we have
considered necessary or appropriate for the purposes hereof. In such
examination, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity
of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to the original
documents of all documents submitted to us as copies and the authenticity of the
originals of such latter documents. As to any facts material to our opinion, we
have, when relevant facts were not independently established, relied upon the
aforesaid Registration Statement, resolutions, instruments, certificates,
records and documents. We have also assumed the regularity of all corporate
procedures.

      Based upon the foregoing, and subject to the limitations and
qualifications contained in this opinion, we are of the opinion that:

      1. The issuance of the Stock has been duly authorized by the Board of
Directors of the Company.

      2. The Stock will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable when
the Stock shall have been issued, sold and delivered for the consideration
contemplated in the Plans.


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      We express no opinion with respect to any laws other than the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, the applicable provisions of the
Delaware Constitution and the reported judicial decisions interpreting the
Delaware laws, and the federal laws of the United States.

      We hereby consent to the use of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not thereby concede that
we are within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7
of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

                                    Very truly yours,

                                    /s/  LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP
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New York, New York
May 29, 2007


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