2025 Three Tools for 2025 to Enhance D&B Performance As we look back on 2024, we wanted to highlight the three most valuable tools that all D&B operations could use to help improve their work rolling into 2025.
webinar Webinar Summary- Industry 4.0: Innovation in Drill & Blast Materials Watch the webinar now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPjjgGqOfBM Summary This webinar explores how advancements in hardware and software are revolutionizing the drilling and blasting industries through Industry 4.0.
blast design Webinar Summary- How to Build a Scalable Blast Optimization Program Zach Tobias from Maurer & Scott is sharing how they build blast optimization programs at scale.
blasting Product Spotlight: Backbreak Analysis With Strayos' backbreak calculator, measuring the volume and distance of back break can be calculated instantly and easily on newly formed faces with just a couple clicks.
mining Using Modeling to Reduce Backbreak The root cause of backbreak on sites may be due to several factors such as geology, loading, timing, both in conjunction with or solely from poor blast design. This document will address how to use modeling techniques to improve highwalls.
drone data 7 Ways Drone Data Empowers Construction Drill & Blast Drone Data helps construction drill & blast companies in many ways, but here are the 7 we chose to highlight...
blasting Webinar Summary: Guidelines for Perimeter Control and Pre-Split Design Nathan Rouse, Director of Thoroughbred Drill & Blast Consultants discusses why blasters and mining and quarry operations should invest in pre-splitting and what they need to know to pull it off correctly.
3D model Webinar Summary- Reading the Rock Technical Specialist and Solutions Engineer Elijah Williams discusses how to accommodate rock characteristic information into your blast design. From drone to drill- adding data to your blast design creates safer more effective blasts.
digitilization Overcoming Oversize - Webinar Summary What if you could reduce your oversize by 30 percent or more?
blasting The Anatomy of A Healthy Blast Just like the human body, a blast only functions properly when every part of its anatomy is in good shape. It’s important to get all of these principles right to ensure a healthy blast.
computer vision Finding the Seam: Auto Detecting Geology with Drones to Optimize Blasting Bench geology is easier than ever to add to your blast design. With automated detection and modeling you can optimize your blast. Prevent ore loss, reduce dilution, avoid flyrock, and more.
blasting Connecting the Solutions- Mining & Quarrying Companies Need an AI Powered Dashboard Data silos are a well known obstacle for the quarrying industry. Ravi Sahu and Kevin Vonesh have an answer- an AI powered Solutions Dashboard.
3D model TLDR- AI's Explosive Impact in Drill and Blast Mining Magazine EMEA editor Craig Gutherie spoke with Strayos CEO Ravi Sahu about the need for AI to assist drillers and blasters with creating the best shot possible.
customer story Accuracy When it Matters Most Maurer & Scott's Zach Tobias shares 3 stories of how drones and Strayos helped him pull off tricky shots that could have gone horribly wrong- but thankfully didn't.
photogrammetry How Maurer & Scott Helped their Client Prevent a Fly Rock Disaster using Strayos Maurer & Scott's Technical Specialist Zach Tobias shares the story of how using drones with Strayos'3D Blast Profiling tools they were able to help their client avoid a fly rock disaster.
drone surveying How Maurer & Scott Increased Production 10x for Their Client By incorporating drones and Strayos into our workflow, we were able to increase production at this quarry 10x.
artificial intelligence Making Depleted Deposits Profitable by Increasing Extraction Efficiency Better extraction methods create better yields. As ore deposits become increasingly depleted and of lower quality, mines must become more efficient at accessing the remaining ore in order to maintain profitability while keeping commodity costs low enough to feed demand.
covid-19 Business in the Covid-19 Era : Social Distancing in Mining, Quarrying and Infrastructure industry Covid-19 has ground the US and world economies to a standstill. Governments and businesses everywhere are enacting increasingly extreme measures to try to slow the spread. Multiple states and companies are now requiring
Quarry General Drilling and Maine Drilling & Blasting transforms their operations with Strayos The article details the experiences of the two companies have had working with Strayos, the problems they were facing, why they decided to work with Strayos, and how Strayos has improved their work
Quarry Digital Geology: A Key to improve blast performance Importance of Rock Mass properties Rock mass properties have a substantial influence on blasting outcomes. Blasting outcomes [https://elorantaassoc.com/download/Papers/E&A_Effects_of_Blasting_on_Crushing_and_Grinding_Efficiency_and_
Quarry Power of analytics in improving rock fragmentation Blasting is the most economical technique to achieve rock fragmentation in mines and quarries. The main objective of blasting is to realize the fragmentation in the desired size. Analytics can be of help in several considerations by providing a better understanding of the process.
machine learning Using Machine Learning to Make Blasting Design Cheaper, Faster, and More Intelligent In the USA, there are over 14,000 mines and quarries. The first step in this large supply chain is the drilling & blasting design. Every day, planning at least a week ahead, mines
computer vision Scientists’ latest discovery is exponentially increasing production in leading mines and quarries New frontier discovered in drilling Some of the leading mining companies in the world are using the latest technology in computer vision to transform smart drills and increase production in their mines and