MINING

Digitalisation takes drill and blast to new dimensions

Exploring the use of new technologies for optimising the use of drill and blast at mining sites

D’arcy Jenish
 Orica’s 4D enables the seamless matching of the required energy to rock strength, to target the desired blast outcomes

Orica’s 4D enables the seamless matching of the required energy to rock strength, to target the desired blast outcomes

Drilling and blasting has traditionally been "the unloved son of mining" according to the Australian industry veteran Timothy Ross and mining companies have frequently let their junior engineers handle...

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