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drone surveying

A New Workflow to Increase Drilling Accuracy Using PPK Drones and GPS Smart Drills - Webinar Summary

Designing and implementing a precise drill plan is critical for achieving an optimal blast outcome. In recent years, GPS Navigation Drills have enabled pinpoint accuracy for drilling operations. However, the major blocker for

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drilling

Webinar Summary- Optimizing Fragmentation Using Measure While Drilling and 3D Analytics Data

Traditionally, drilling data has been difficult to capture and combine with blast design information. Now, new technologies like 3D image analysis and Measure While Drilling(MWD) data allow blasters and site managers to "see" inside the bench in ways never before possible.

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ai

Smarter Drilling: 3 Tools Empowering Drilling & Blasting

Knowing the geology of the bench and the true locations of the as drilled holes allow drillers to optimize their drilling performance and allow blasters to achieve better fragmentation, better ore body control, control for fly-rock, vibration and back break and get their best blast ever.

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ai

What's Next?

We've decided these 5 tested techs will ROCK the drilling & blasting industry in 2021.

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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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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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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

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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

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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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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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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

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