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Solo™ 6 Conveyor Analysis System analyzes material on conveyor belts in real-time to automate your process. Establish quality control and improve safety, efficiency and throughput without disrupting production.

Reflex™ 6 Vehicle Analysis System focuses on acquiring high quality images that are processed onboard. Designed for use on moving HD, LHD and railcar vehicles at the primary crusher without disrupting production. Laser triggering capabilities to sense the location of the truck before capturing images. Provides real-time telemetry to your control system, data historian or automatic daily reporting.

WipFrag™ 4 Image Analysis Software provides instant PSD analysis of digital images. Collect images at the muckpile after a blast, a closer up sample of a stockpile, a laboratory sample or drone/UAV images. With auto-scaling capabilities, WipFrag 4 is safe, cost effective and the most accurate fragmentation analysis tool in the world.

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Blast Design

What are the causes of Excessive burden in blast design and how to identify blast fragmentation that result from excessive burden or other ill blast design using WipFrag 4.

Starting with this quote from Singh et al. (1998), the mentioned that “Drilling errors are frequent but undesirable occurrences in mining operations and are composed of collaring, alignment, trajectory and length errors. Improved drilling accuracy has tremendous monetary benefits in terms of optimum fragmentation, reduced dilution, higher ore recoveries and less need for redrilling.”

Poor Drilling Operations Result

Going forward, the large effect of poor drilling operations on excessive burden creation necessitates a comprehensive assessment of blasting practices. Each mine requires a robust methodology for bore hole and blasting result assessment as this is essential for improving the predictability and overall efficiency of mining operations.

Considering the heterogeneous state of rock mass and the varying conditions of human operators and drilling machinery, below are some of the factors that contribute to excessive burden distance in blast design:

Factors that Contribute to Excessive Burden Distance in Blast Design

1. Rock Mass Variability: Differences in rock strength, density, and structure can lead to uneven excessive burden creation.

2. Blast Hole Deviation and accuracy: The deviations in drill holes from their intended (design) paths due to rock anisotropic characteristics can create inconsistencies in burden and spacing (Bradley, 1975).

3. Explosive Distribution: Considering the explosive energy per meter along borehole wall, Uneven distribution or incorrect loading of explosives can lead to improper energy release, affecting burden distance at detonation.

4. Rock Mass Discontinuities: The Presence of joints, faults, and fractures can also influence blast outcomes, causing uneven burden distribution.

5. Blasting Practices: Variations in blasting techniques and practices, including timing and sequence, can impact burden and fragmentation.

6. Equipment Performance: Drilling Equipment Wear and tear, maintenance issues, and technological limitations are one of the well known factor that affects drilling precision and blast outcomes.

7. Human Factors: Operator skill, experience, fatigue, and adherence to procedures play a significant role in achieving accurate drilling and blasting.

8. Environmental Conditions: Weather, ground conditions, and water presence can affect drilling performance and blast effectiveness.

One of the significant evidence of blasting with excessive burden distance is having oversize accumulation in blast result along throw path.

The video attached shows how to assess this using WipFrag 4 software:

In the Part 4 of this article, I will discuss some of the ways to avoid excessive burden effect on blasting fragmentation.

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Missed Part 1 and 2? Here you go:

Part 1: Effect of Excessive Burden Distance on Blasting Result – Part 1

Part 2: https://wipware.com/effect-of-excessive-burden-distance-on-blasting-result-part-2/

To ensure that you get the best material analysis system for your specific application, our team will work directly with you to help determine what you need. We provide solutions for your industry: mining, quarries, aggregate, forestry, agriculture, coarse coal applications, explosives and many more.

Manual sieving techniques are still used today but there is a better way. With WipWare systems, automatic data processing is available. Our systems are easily installed and completely autonomous, operating 24-7. They are user-friendly allowing the user to access data across multiple devices: Windows, iOS and Android. With their robust design, it’s perfect for industrial environments with operating temperatures ranging from -40°C to +80°C.

With a Universal frame design, our Solo 6 systems will install on any conveyor belt size needed. Also, the frame comes with an integrated high efficiency light source to get the best images for material analysis. Even better, all of our systems use WipFrag as the HMI (Human to Machine Interface) and no license required.

Maximum size or Colour detection system

Are you looking for maximum size or colour detection? Sometimes simpler is better. With our Solo 6 and Reflex 6 Basic material analysis systems, you can choose what is best for you. Whether you need the system at the primary crusher or on a conveyor, our Basic System product line is purpose-built to target material based on maximum particle size or material colour differentiation.

There are two options available for our Solo 6 Conveyor Analysis System: Solo 6 Basic and Solo 6 Complete.

PSD Analysis – Complete system

Alternatively, you may be looking for full PSD analysis to measure real-time particle size, shape distribution, volume and colour differentiation of unconsolidated material. Our Complete product line provides this option, unlocking the full potential of our material analysis systems.

There are two options available for our Reflex 6 Vehicle Analysis System: Reflex 6 Basic and Reflex 6 Complete.

Processes that our material analysis systems can help with:

• Crusher gap control
• Detecting broken screens
• Colour-based sorting
• Contamination/dilution detection
• Detect irregularities by colour
• 25-user defined sizes
• Optimize SAG throughput
• Optimize crusher throughput
• Pre-primary crusher oversize detection

We strive to provide our customers with the best technology for PSD analysis, colour sorting or oversize detection.

Contact us today or reach out to one of our VARs around the world to answer any of your questions.

WipFrag 4 now allows our users to choose between 3rd party software or single drone images to create GeoTIFF orthomosaic images for analysis.

To create your own orthomosaic inside the software, we have integrated the ODM (Open Drone Map) feature. With this new feature, you can take single drone images that don’t require expensive 3rd party software and create your own GeoTIFF file.

If you already have 3rd party software and want to create an GeoTIFF orthomosaic image to upload into WipFrag 4, simply take images using a drone and third party flight path software creating a GeoTIFF orthomosaic image.

Along with WipFrag, we recommend specific DJI products and flight path software such as Drone Deploy or Pix4D. Using flight path software products with a drone will allow you to generate 3D profiles, stockpile volumes, elevation heat mapping, and our favorite – GeoTIFF orthomosaic images.

When deciding on a drone, here are some specs and camera recommendations.

Recommended drone specs and its camera:

• Good quality camera (>6 megapixels still images)
• Good flight time (>25 minutes is suitable for most applications)
• Gimbal capable of downward view (perpendicular to the ground)
• Capable of iOS interface for autonomous mission planning & flight
• Good flight speed (>40mph/65kph necessary for wind resistance)
• Good operating range (>4mi/6.4km helps in pit environment)
• Automatic collision avoidance and return to home capability
• Reasonably priced and easy to find parts/accessories
• GPS & GLONASS

WipFrag takes the GeoTIFF orthomosaic drone images and creates detailed blast fragmentation measurements. The drone software stitches the images together and creates a high resolution, larger image. The drone software aligns the photographs to maintain scale and create an exact representation of the earth’s surface.

Drone orthomosaic images do not need a scale reference on the blast pile because the GeoTIFF orthomosaic image has the scale reference embedded in it and WipFrag 4 Windows software has enhanced capabilities to handle these large data sets.

WipFrag 4 also give you the option to use our MailFrag service which also supports GeoTIFF Orthomosaic images. UAV image submission is the same as standard MailFrag image submission. One UAV image analysis costs 9 image analysis credits.

Please visit our website for more information about WipFrag 4 and our MailFrag online image analysis service.

We’re happy to provide additional support and detailed recommendations. Feel free to email us at support@wipware.com. Remote training sessions are also available.

For a tutorial on how this new ODM feature works, click here

Reliable systems and rugged construction – two reasons WipWare’s customers come back and install updated systems 10 years later. This is the second major system installation of a WipWare camera system for Rosebel Mine. WipWare technical specialists installed the first conveyor analysis system in December 2011.

We design our reliable systems with our customers in mind because we want to ensure successful installations. So, even when our technical specialists cannot travel to a site, we make sure our customers have dedicated support during the installation and calibration process.

Momentum 5 Installation

In February 2021, our technical specialist met with the Rosebel team to begin installing this updated reliable and rugged system. After meeting with the team, WipWare’s technical specialist, due to travel restrictions, assisted the Rosebel team remotely to configure the system and capture the images for analysis.

The on-site team installed this new system in the same location as the older Momentum 3 system about a metre away.

The Momentum system is a completely automated conveyor material analysis system. This system measures the size distribution of unconsolidated material on conveyor belts in real time without disrupting production.

In addition to PSD data, it provides shape data (sphericity ratios), volumetric reporting, and can detect waste or distinct materials.

This technology is highly configurable and performs well in harsh industrial environments for process automation and historical reference.

Rosebel Mine’s application of this technology throughout the process plant is an excellent use of the system. It is also an ideal example of the intended function of the Momentum.

The Rosebel gold mine is located in the mineral rich Brokopondo district in north eastern Suriname, South America. The Rosebel property lies approximately 85 kilometers south of the capital city of Paramaribo. The property is accessible via paved and all-weather gravel roads from Paramaribo, a drive of about 110 kilometers.

There is a small airstrip located onsite approximately 2 kilometers from the mill operations. Suriname’s Zanderij International Airport is approximately 60 kilometers by road north of Rosebel.

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We are excited to announce our new Product and Tutorial Video Page available to our future and existing customers to help understand our online fragmentation analysis systems and software.

This page will be a great resource with short tutorial videos for using WipFrag fragmentation analysis software and its various capabilities. As well, there are videos about our online systems and how each system works.

In addition, each video can be found on the individual product page.

We have a wide variety of online systems available to meet your analysis needs. Whether you work in surface mining, quarries, aggregate, forestry or the coal industry, we have the solution to automate your process and increase productivity.

From our Momentum 5 Online Conveyor System to our New Vertex Instrument designed to measure maximum particle size or material type, WipWare has what you need from Pit to Plant.

We will be adding new informative videos as they become available so stay tuned!

The information is at your finger tips!