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Surface Coal

Shovel and excavator productivity

Achieve consistent loading cycle times by optimising blasting processes to ensure efficient truck deployment in surface coal operations.

Shovel and excavator productivity.

Shovel and excavator productivity.

Orica’s shovel and excavator solutions help you achieve faster digging rates and reduce machine wear by delivering consistent, optimal fragmentation. Using advanced blast design and digital tools like BlastIQ™, combined our advanced bulk explosive range and our 4D™ bulk delivery technology enable precise energy control tailored to your geology. This approach improves bucket fill, reduces oversize and enhances overall productivity, while lowering maintenance costs and supporting safer, more efficient operations.

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Surface coal

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Driven by innovation and backed by our global research, development and technical networks, we deliver solutions that solve real operational challenges.

Improve safety

Operational efficiency and performance

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Bulk Systems

Blasting Solutions

Bulk Systems

Orica’s Bulk Systems deliver precision blasting and flexible energy control across surface and underground operations.

WebGen™ wireless initiation system

Blasting Solutions

WebGen^™ wireless initiation system

WebGen™ - the world’s first truly wireless initiating system.

SHOTPlus™ advanced blast design and modelling software

Digital Solutions

SHOTPlus^™ advanced blast design and modelling software

The SHOTPlus™ software range enables users to design, visualise and analyse blasts across surface and underground mining, quarry and construction applications.

BlastIQ™ - Integrated Technology Solutions to Optimise Every Blast

Digital Solutions

BlastIQ^™ - Integrated Technology Solutions to Optimise Every Blast

BlastIQ™ enables continuous improvement of blasting outcomes for quarry, surface and underground mining operations. From pre-blast modelling, to post-blast measurement and analysis, BlastIQ™ delivers the data, benchmarks, and insights needed to ensure sustainable and cost-effective improvements in blast performance.

FRAGTrack™ - State of the Art Fragmentation Measurement

Digital Solutions

FRAGTrack^™ - State of the Art Fragmentation Measurement

FRAGTrack™ is a market-leading fragmentation measurement tool providing rapid insights into the outcome of blasting processes. The FRAGTrack™ suite of technologies provide operations with increased scope to capture fragmentation data across various stages of the load and haul process.

Technical Services

Blasting Solutions

Technical Services

Orica’s Technical Services deliver expert blast design, modelling and on-site support to enhance safety, productivity and performance across mining operations.

Bulkmaster™

Blasting Solutions

Bulkmaster^™

Bulkmaster™ is Orica’s advanced range of Mobile Manufacturing Unit (MMU™) systems engineered to deliver precise, efficient and safe loading of bulk explosives for surface mining.

Delivering value where it matters.

Additional benefits

Delivering value where it matters.

Discover the right solutions to help you run your operation safely and efficiently.

Reduced oversize to improve shovel time productivity.
Improve bucket fill factors.
Reduced dig cycle times.
Mine flexibility and scheduling.

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