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Dyno Nobel highlights $58 million Drill to Mill value example at Copper to the World

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Dyno Nobel’s premium explosives technology solutions and services have been on show this week at the Copper to the World conference in Adelaide, South Australia.

An industry leader in blasting technology, commercial explosives and blasting services, Dyno Nobel was the conference’s Innovation Partner and provided attendees with insights, including its Drill to Mill™ service offering.

Dyno Nobel’s Chief Technology Officer, Robert Rounsley, said: “Copper to the World is a great opportunity for us to provide our customers and potential customers with a greater understanding of the benefits our premium technology delivers.

“Our technology solutions put the customer at the centre and drive safety, sustainability and productivity benefits at their mine sites. This includes copper mines where our technology provides solutions to some of the challenges faced.”

Russell Lamont, Dyno Nobel Americas Senior Vice President, Retail Sales and Field Operations, provided the conference with a detailed look at Drill to Mill and the benefits being delivered to customers.

He said: “Drill to Mill sees our Dyno Nobel experts work with customers on a customised, operationally comprehensive mining solution to optimise blast design and explosive technology application. The result is significant value delivery in downstream processing circuits and reduced overall mining cost.”

He said the use of Drill to Mill at a major Dyno Nobel copper customer mine drove $58 million in value for the customer over one year by significantly increasing mill throughput.

Lamont said: “In this Drill to Mill example, our premium technology was used to achieve fragmentation and productivity goals in particularly difficult ore types. This included our DIFFERENTIAL ENERGY® (∆E) and DigiShot® Plus.4G technologies, implemented through a strong partnership with customer stakeholders and our world-leading DynoConsult technical expertise.”

DIFFERENTIAL ENERGY provides the ability to vary emulsion density from hole to hole as well as vertically within each individual blasthole so that explosive energy is targeted to where it is needed.

Copper to the World was held on June 18-19 at the Adelaide Convention Centre in South Australia.

Dyno Nobel, Fortescue sign tech alliance focused on drill and blast decarbonisation

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Incitec Pivot Limited’s Dyno Nobel is to extend its supply relationship with Fortescue, with the two parties agreeing to a long-term extension that will see Dyno Nobel continue providing explosives technology and collaborating on key decarbonisation projects to assist Fortescue in reaching its ‘Real Zero’ goal.

A key focus of the new agreement is an innovative technology alliance. As part of this, Dyno Nobel will invest A$5 million ($3.2 million) in new technologies to support Fortescue’s decarbonisation efforts within its drill and blast process. The new agreement will apply across Fortescue’s Pilbara operations: Cloudbreak, Christmas Creek, Solomon and Eliwana. The Iron Bridge project, which Fortescue has a majority stake in, is supplied by Dyno Nobel under a separate contract the two companies announced last year.

Dyno Nobel Asia Pacific President, Greg Hayne, said: “We’re incredibly proud of our relationship with Fortescue who are at the forefront of efforts to decarbonise the mining industry. The agreement will see us ramp up our decarbonisation efforts which will include conversion of our MPU (mobile processing unit) fleet to renewable energy sources and investigating the use of lower carbon footprint, bio-fuel based explosives.

“This is about providing our customers with technology solutions that lower our carbon footprint and, in turn, theirs.”

Fortescue Metals CEO, Dino Otranto, said: “We’re looking forward to continuing our successful partnership with Dyno Nobel, which will deliver blasting services as well as provide new technologies to help us achieve our industry leading target of Real Zero emissions across our Australian iron ore operations.”

The agreement will provide Fortescue with the opportunity to benefit from Dyno Nobel’s commercialisation of a reduced GHG emissions DIFFERENTIAL ENERGY® solution, an explosives method that tailors the energy delivered to different rock layers within a blast hole and across a blast. The efficiencies generated through the use of DIFFERENTIAL ENERGY reduce both overall mining costs and emission volumes for customers, according to Dyno Nobel, with the reduced emissions solution able to reduce Scope 1 emissions by up to 25% in normal blasting circumstances.

Hayne said that since Dyno Nobel’s DIFFERENTIAL ENERGY technology was introduced to the Australian market in 2018 it has provided customers with production and environmental benefits.

“Fortescue has already seen the technology deliver value at their Iron Bridge operations, one of the first sites in Australia to fully benefit from DIFFERENTIAL ENERGY and the results have been very positive. We are now pleased to be increasing these advantages via a reduced emissions offering. It is just another example of our technology innovation happening on the ground.”

He said Dyno Nobel’s technology development aligned with Fortescue’s vision.

“We are looking forward to continuing our successful partnership with Fortescue which has evolved into finding innovative and sustainable solutions for the future by working together,” he said.