Consulting Services

Our Itasca blasting capabilities are:

• Consulting
  • Audits / Expert Opinions
  • QA/QC for blast designs
  • Independent Reviews
  • Review Boards
• Optimizations
  • Fragmentation
  • Wall Control
  • Blast Movement
  • Cost
• Problem-solving
  • Complex challenges that require multi-scale approach to understand the fundamental mechanisms of interaction between practical blast designs and rock masses.
  • Blast modelling used to determine suitable blast design parameters for surface and underground blasting applications.
• Numerical Modeling
  • Applications of Blo-Up, PFC, FLAC2D, and FLAC3D to solve Drill and Blast problems.
• Machine Learning
  • Development of machine learning solutions for blasting.
  • Development of tailored Web Apps.

In addition to conventional analytical and empirical methods, Itasca has developed Blo-Up, a proprietary tool for blast analysis, as part of the HSBM consortium. Blo-Up can be used to understand blasthole-to-blasthole interaction, optimize fragmentation and blast movement minimizing undesirable results. This unique simulator model various complex phenomena happening during the blasting process. Blo-Up simulation results include final muckpile profile, fragment velocities, blasthole gas pressure, particle size distributions, etc. Although Blo-Up is not commercially available, Itasca offers consulting services using Blo-Up.

If you need more information, please Contact a Consultant.