Ever heard, or said those words while trying to evaluate a muck pile after a blast?

A measure of effective blast performance is rock fragmentation. Ultimately, fragmentation effects many areas such as excavator productivity, crusher throughput and maintence costs. 

Respectively, being able to measure the muck pile has many benefits, some of which include determining explosives type selection, powder factor determination, timing evaluation, oversize control, fines reduction, and equipment wear evaluation.

"You can't manage what you can't measure," is never more true than when it is applied to rock fragmentation.  DBA Consulting utilizes state of the art digital technology to analyze fragmentation and provide you with the data you need to make the best decision, whether it is to "continue using the digital dets" or "apply more stemming over the plugs" or "change the firing configuration."

Ton for ton it is always cheaper to crush rock with chemical energy rather than mechanical energy.  And knowing the effectiveness of a blast through fragmentation analysis helps to optimize blast performance, which translates into saving you money.