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Tailored blast loading and validation

Precision blasting transforming operational efficiency and recovery for iron ore operations.

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Tailored blast loading and validation.

Improve productivity and recovery by tailoring explosive energy to in-situ rock conditions and downstream requirements. Orica Digital Solutions' enables this through integrated geological hardness measurements, advanced energy-matching algorithms, digital blast design tools, an expanded bulk product and energy range and precision delivery systems. 

Continuous downstream validation - including real-time through fragmentation measurement with FRAGTrack™ and digability feedback ensures continuous calibration of blast performance. This improves consistency, maximises load and haul effiency, and helps reduce overall cost-per-tonne.

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Driven by innovation and backed by our global R&D and technical networks, we deliver solutions that solve real operational challenges. 

Data insights

Data insights

Downstream processing efficiency

Downstream processing efficiency

Improve orebody knowledge

Improve orebody knowledge

Maximise resource recovery

Maximise resource recovery

Operational efficiency and performance

Operational efficiency and performance

Reduce costs of drill and blast

Reduce costs of drill and blast

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Design for Outcome - Machine Learning for Adaptive Blasts
Digital Solutions

Design for Outcome - Machine Learning for Adaptive Blasts

Design for Outcome (DfO) applies machine learning to automatically classify rock into blastability domains which enable the generation of tailored drill and blast designs.
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Rhino™
Digital Solutions

Rhino™

High definition orebody knowledge for maximum recovery.
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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.
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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.
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FRAGTrack™ - State of the Art Fragmentation Measurement
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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.
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Integrated Extraction Simulator
Digital Solutions

Integrated Extraction Simulator

Integrated Extraction Simulator - Evaluation of Processing Scenarios Across the Mining Value Chain.
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4D™ Surface
Blasting Solutions

4D™ Surface

4D™ Surface is a revolutionary bulk explosives system that gives surface operations precise control of explosive energy to match changing geology and hole conditions
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Electronic Blasting Systems
Blasting Solutions

Electronic Blasting Systems

Reliable electronic blasting systems delivering precision, safety and performance for mining and civil operations across diverse conditions and geologies.
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WebGen™ wireless initiation system
Blasting Solutions

WebGen™ wireless initiation system

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

Delivering value where it matters.

Our technologies and insights are designed to create measurable impact, where it matters most.

Productivity

  • Improved productivity through tailored blasting
  • Improved digability and load efficiency

Downstream processing

  • Enhanced processing crushing and milling

Operational efficiency

  • Lower total cost per tonne via energy-efficient fragmentation

Insights

  • Real-time or near real-time insights from geology aligned digital blast design
  • Data-driven calibration and decision making

Compliance and security

  • Our cloud-native platform is ISO 27001 certified, upholding the highest standard in information security management, and demonstrating our commitment to providing an open, secure and connected platform for our customers and industry partners.
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Case study

Antucoya reduces spend on explosives by 9% using RHINO™.

"Using RHINO, we have been able to interpret the compressive strength of the rock while drilling each hole and adjust loading designs. Initially, we focused on barren zones to precisely determine the energy needed to fragment the rock. As a result, we managed to reduce the consumption of explosives by 9% in the business, maintaining the granulometry required by the processing plant and without affecting the excavation rates of the shovels". 

Sergio Barrera, Drill & Blast Superintendent, Minera Antucoya, Antofagasta Minerals, Chile.
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Orica’s underground mining solutions combine innovation and expertise to ensure optimised safety and more efficient ore recovery.
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