Drill and Blast Audit

DynoConsult and Stantec, our industry partner, were retained by Capstone Mining Corp to conduct a 10 day audit of the drill and blast operations at Mina Cozamin

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Client: Capstone Mining Corp
Site: Mina Cozamin
Project: Drill and Blast Audit
State and Country: Zacatecas, Mexico
Commodity: Copper-Silver
Project Years: 2020

 
DynoConsult and Stantec, our industry partner, were retained by Capstone Mining Corp to conduct a 10 day audit of the drill and blast operations at Mina Cozamin. The audit included a review of drill and blast design, drill pattern layout, drilling, explosives loading, and blast performance. Prior to the visit, there were concerns over the productivity of drill and blast operations because the operational bottleneck at Mina Cozamin was the longhole production drills.

DynoConsult used various blast instrumentation tools and design methods to conduct an in-depth audit of the stoping operations at Mina Cozamin. DynoConsult identified cost-savings and practices that could increase productivity at the mine site. Mina Cozamin could double productivity while reducing drill and blast costs by half compared to the baseline blast by using a new variable design approach. This approach would also eliminate the drilling bottleneck.