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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.

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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.

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customer story

Customer Spotlight Maurer & Scott

In 2017 many companies offered drone 3D photogrammetry solutions. Zach Tobias had to find the best. What he found in Strayos blew his mind.

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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.

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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.

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drones

Drones, Drills, & Data

Three technologies enabling massive improvements in drilling are Drones, AI, and smart drills. Used individually, they give a huge advantage, but when combined, they allow the modern driller to accomplish a level of insights never before seen.

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webinar

Strayos' Flagship Webinar Was a Fantastic Success

The Untapped Potential of Drone Data in Drilling & Blasting Strayos, in collaboration with Maurer & Scott, hosted its first Webinar on September 29, 2020. It was an amazing success. There were more than 300

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pit analysis

How AI is Making Pit Analysis Faster, Easier, and Safer

Operations at mines are often planned based on a theoretical design that rarely matches reality. To optimize operations, you need to know what you are working with. Periodic Pit Analysis are Needed In

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team

Employee Spotlight- Shuo Zhong

Strayos is proud to present... Shuo Zhong! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuo-zhong] Shuo aka Thor is our Computer Vision and Machine Learning Engineer, located in our Buffalo, New York office. > Thor- Strayos'

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drones

Best Drones for Drilling & Blasting 2020

Best Drones for Drilling & Blasting 2020 Drone use in the drilling and blasting industry has increased dramatically in recent years. As companies seek to improve their blasting practices, for example, by adding more

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team

Employee Spotlight- Jon

Introducing.... Jon Lewis! Jon Lewis is a Strayos Star, one of our exceptional employees dedicated to making your experience with Strayos amazing. Jon is our Solutions Engineer and is based in our Buffalo,

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mining

Thinking Outside the Rocks: Using Hyperspectral Imaging to Locate Ore After a Blast

What if locating your ore post-blast, was as easy as flying a drone? One of the biggest problems a mine faces is locating ore after a blast- particularly for narrow deposits with a

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fragmentation

How to Get the Fragmentation you Want

A recent survey of quarry companies attending Quarry Academy found that a whopping 60% of quarries feel their muck pile fragmentation could be better. Only 2% felt the quality of their muck pile fragmentation was excellent.

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internship

Intern Spotlight - Akash Adhikari

Strayos is proud to introduce... Akash Adhikari! One of Our Brightest Stars and an Epic Person. Akash is studying Mining Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology [https://www.sdsmt.edu/

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internship

Intern Spotlight - Aamir Azam

Strayos is proud to introduce... Aamir Azam! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/aamirazam/] One of Our Shining Stars and a Brilliant Person. Aamir is pursuing an MBA at Boston University's Questrom School of

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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.

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mining

Influence of Front Row Burden on Mining

Front row burden optimization improves the mean fragment size by 25% and reduces equipment cycle time by 20%.

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internship

Intern Spotlight - Richard Amoako

Strayos is proud to introduce... Richard Amoako! An All Star Team Member and Awesome Guy Richard is studying Mining Engineering at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology [https://www.sdsmt.edu/] Lab

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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_

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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.

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machine learning

Cost Saving in Drill and Blasting with Machine Learning

This blog is the second part of the four-part blog series on using machine learning to reduce cost in drill and blasting.

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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

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smart drill

The trade secret to improving the loading of Blast-Hole

Drones as a standard tool in blast design Drone acquired data in the beginning of the blast design is rapidly being adopted throughout the mine and quarries blasting arena. Some mines and quarries

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drone data

Why drone data will be critical to securing the explosives industry

One of the largest conundrums facing regulators in every country today is the security of explosive products. While mines are highly regulated and have some of the highest security available, all mine operators,

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