MINING

Digitalisation takes drill and blast to new dimensions

D’arcy Jenish explores how digital technologies can manipulate explosive energy with far more precision, leading to huge benefits downstream.

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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