Underground Mining
Stope optimisation
Orica brings together digital design, precise measurement, advanced charging systems and wireless initiation into a single connected workflow. This integration enables customers to design, execute and optimise every stope with confidence.
Unlock more value from every stope.
Unlock more value from every stope.
Today’s underground mines face increasingly complex geology and operating environments. Orica’s integrated drill and blast ecosystem gives customers the confidence to mine more safely, efficiently and predictably — even in the most challenging conditions.
Benefits
Benefits
Driven by innovation and backed by our global research, development and technical networks, we deliver solutions that solve real operational challenges.
Improve safety
Blast quality and performance
Maximise resource recovery
Operational efficiency and performance
Reduce costs of drill and blast
Mine flexibility and scheduling
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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.
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.
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.
Blasting Solutions
WebGen™ wireless initiation system
WebGen™ - the world’s first truly wireless initiating system.
Blasting Solutions
Underground delivery systems
Reliable underground delivery systems providing accurate charging in drives, stopes and confined mining environments.
Blasting Solutions
4D™ Underground
4D™ Underground
Blasting Solutions
i-kon™
Orica’s i‑kon™ electronic blasting systems delivering unmatched precision, safety and performance for mining and blasting operations worldwide.
Blasting Solutions
ORBS™
Orica’s ORBS™ blasting system delivers dependable remote firing capability with enhanced safety and efficiency for mining and quarry operations.
The challenge.
Stope optimisation
The challenge.
Operators are working in environments where geology, ground conditions and hole variability make every stope harder to manage. These conditions limit productivity and increase safety exposure through:
- Irregular, adverse‑to‑mine orebodies and complex geotechnical structures.
- Hot, reactive ground and deep, high‑stress seismic environments.
- Variable blasthole depth, orientation and quality leading to hole damage, rework and misfires.
- Low stope turnover, poor fragmentation, ore dilution and lost recovery.
These challenges reduce predictability, create inefficiencies and limit the economic extraction of valuable ore.
Orica's integrated know-how.
Stope optimisation
Orica's integrated know-how.
Orica brings together digital design, precise measurement, advanced charging systems and wireless initiation into a single connected workflow. This integration enables customers to design, execute and optimise every stope with confidence.
Digital intelligence
- SHOTPlus™ Underground and BlastIQ™ connect drill data, blast design and field insights in real time.
- AXIS CHAMP GYRO™ provides accurate blasthole surveys integrated directly into blast modelling.
Advanced charging and initiation
- 4D™ bulk delivery systems optimise energy distribution in variable ground.
- WebGen™ 200 wireless initiation enables pre‑charging, reduces exposure and supports larger, more efficient blasts.
Operational expertise
- Technical Services, Hypercharge™ and Maxicharger™ Maxiloader™ deliver end‑to‑end support across design, loading and firing execution.
Together, these technologies and services create a more predictable and connected stope cycle.
Customer outcomes.
Stope optimisation
Customer outcomes.
With Orica’s integrated approach, customers achieve:
- Enhanced safety with reduced exposure, less manual intervention and reliable remote firing via Orica's WebGen™ wireless initiating system.
- More predictable outcomes through digitally driven workflows and design reconciliation.
- Reduced rework and misfires, with improved hole quality and controlled blasting performance.
- Higher stope turnover, simpler scheduling and increased operating time.
- Improved fragmentation, recovery and compliance to plan — increasing the value of each blast cycle.
- Greater orebody access, including economic extraction of deep, complex and reactive deposits.
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