Aegis Functionality

The highspeed underground blast engineering tool by mining engineers for mining engineers. Aegis Designer and Aegis Analyzer have been created to enable your underground drill and blast engineers to design better blasts. Our Designer solution reduces the time required to complete a design package leading to operational cost reduction. Our intuitive, dynamic, design tools allow users to iterate on their designs instead of settling for the first design that comes to mind. The Analyzer blast modelling provides scientific guidance on the best course of action for the execution of better blasts. No longer do blasts have to be designed based on rules of thumb and over generalizations. Start designing better blasts today with Aegis Designer and Analyzer.

Aegis Designer

Aegis Designer is a comprehensive ring design generation tool that allows planners to create and compare stope designs in seconds. With one unified platform, you can create tailored solutions for drill and blast designs, assign costs to processes, and associate predicted fragmentation with a blast.

Dynamic Ring Generation

Lay out your entire stope in seconds using user-defined drilling and blasting parameters.

  • Model several blasts consisting of full or partial rings and slot decks
  • Sequencing and timing can be generated automatically or edited manually
  • Design and pre-sequence slot patterns for simple insertion into the ring pattern
  • Use isosurface meshes to visualize the damage volume around a blast in 3D
  • Visualize and compare different explosives within different patterns
  • Easily compare relationships between drilling/explosive costs, dilution, transportation, mucking and milling costs for different fragmentation profiles

Visual & Intuitive Interface

Navigate quickly and easily with Designer’s modern and intuitive interface. Users spend less time learning the software and more time designing the blast.

  • Visualize and understand the required blast volume in four simultaneous views – plan, section, longitudinal section, and 3D
  • Simple click-and-drag interface allows for interactive graphical or numeric editing of hole and ring geometry
  • Dockable window arrangement supports the use of multi-monitor displays

Block Model Integration

Designer integrates with a geological block model to enhance ring design with dynamic real-time slicing of the block model in multiple views. Planners can consider ore grade while they make design tweaks to rings superimposed on the block model.

Powerful Reporting Tools

Highly customizable report templates and IREDES export allow designs to get to production as seamlessly as possible.

  • Generate professional and data-rich reports that can be reused on any number of patterns, blasts, or scenarios.
  • Powerful template-based reporting with copy/paste support for the Microsoft Office suite.

Aegis Analyzer

Aegis Analyzer is a powerful analysis tool to help you compare several different approaches to the same problem and help get your blast design right the first time.