Drilling and blasting generate a stream of sensor data - measurement-while-drilling logs, blast-hole probe readings, hydrogeologic monitoring feeds - that AI increasingly processes in real time rather than after the fact. This covers autonomous and AI-assisted drill rigs, blast-hole logging tools like IMDEX’s BLASTDOG, and real-time ore-grade sensing at the shovel.
It also covers the groundwater and hydrological models that inform dewatering and blast design, and the hydrogeologic monitoring systems that keep a pit safe to work in. The common thread across this group is turning continuous field instrumentation into decisions an operator can act on during the shift, not in next week’s report.