MineSight is introducing accuracy and reliability to one of the most difficult stages of mining with a new drill and blast management tool. MineSight Blast will revolutionize the design and execution of drill and blast plans with all the facilities of MineSight 3D tools. In a single interface, the user will be able to design drilling plans, apply blasting parameters and connect a fire.
According to Mark Gabbitus, MineSight Operations Product Manager, “MineSight Blast will redefine blasting. A bad blast could undo all the good work done by geologists and engineers to come up with a solid block model and mine plan. Therefore, it is vitally important that blasting design and execution minimize errors and interpret the effects when things do not go as planned.”
Incorporating a modern design interface, MineSight Blast will interactively draw and manage drill and blast plans on the screen. What's more, it will store all the drawing (and actual) information in an SQL database.
Direct links to the explosives supplier and drilling fleet management systems will facilitate the automation of data transfer between the design tool and operators. In this way, it will be possible to see what is happening in the pit in near real time, enabling intelligent business decisions.
MineSight Blast will connect directly to MineSight Atlas. Therefore, mine planners can update their plan based on actual holes and lengths to get more accurate times.
Several factors affect the quality of a detonation. The geological and geotechnical characteristics of the rock are unalterable, unlike the parameters of the detonation plans, such as spacing between holes, depth, diameter and quantity/type of explosive used. The possibility of changing these parameters dynamically in response to information from drilled wells is essential to achieve good fragmentation.
Stay tuned to take advantage of this revolutionary tool.
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