It’s an operation where drills maintain high availability, achieve high utilization, work quickly and efficiently, and consistently deliver top performance and contribute to the desired blast outcomes. It’s where:

• Drilling is completed precisely to plan.
• Data collected from Monitoring While Drilling (MWD) systems is used in blast planning to deliver optimized fragmentation, and ore identification for material tracking at the point of drilling.
• The resulting material management enables the delivery of the right physical, chemical and mineralogical material to the right stockpile or crusher.
• People are safer.
• Costs are reduced through automated and highly efficient practices and processes.

Drilling optimization makes it possible to cost-effectively extract lower quality ore grades and achieve maximum resource recovery. And it enables sustainable operations — requiring less fuel usage at the drill pad, reducing energy usage in crushing and grinding, and reducing emissions throughout the mining operation.

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