- Release Date:
- 31st July 2023
- KBA Summary:
- This Knowledge Base Article describes the functionality of the Drilling Quantities by Blast dashboard in BlastIQ™ Insights.
Summary
BlastIQ™ Insights Drilling Quantities by Blast dashboard allows users to analyse key metrics like rock volume, drilling length, drilling yield, and average penetration rate. This dashboard helps users understand drilling quantities performance trends across multiple blasts within a specified time frame and other filters. This analysis helps identify patterns, make informed decisions, and optimise drilling operations for increased efficiency and productivity.
Navigation
To navigate to the Drilling Quantities Dashboard:
- From the BlastIQ™ Insights toolbar, select Dashboards.
- Select Drilling Quantities.
Filters
Blasts can be filtered using the following filters:
- Blast Name Search Filter:
- Type in the search box.
- Blasts shown are the ones containing the typed-in characters.
- Blast Status Filter:
- Select: All, Fired or Not Fired.
- Date Range filter:
- Select Created or Fired Date.
- From and To fields are not mandatory.
- If the date range filter is not used, the blasts shown are the latest created/fired for the site.
- Maximum number of blasts shown is based on the Display Filter.
- Elevation filter:
- Choose a minimum and a maximum elevation.
- Select Collar or Grade.
- If an elevation filter is not used, the blasts show an elevation range.
- Maximum number of blasts shown is based on the Display Filter.
- Tags filter:
- Click on the Tags icon.
- Select the desired tags from each category.
- Click Apply to apply the filter criteria.
- It will return the blasts containing the selected tags based on the following logic:
- OR for tags within the same category.
- AND for tags across categories.
- Click on Clear and then Apply to clear all tags filters.
- Click on the X on the top right to close the tags filter; any edits to the filter criteria will be lost if not previously applied.
Read more about Tags here.
- Clear All filters - clears any filters that have been applied.
- Display selection:
- Choose 30, 60, 90, 250 , 500 blasts and Newest or Oldest blasts from the dropdown list.
- This dictates the limit of blasts that are shown from other filters criteria and whether these blasts are picked from oldest first or newest first.
Information
The following information is shown on the Drilling Quantities Dashboard:
- Filter Bar.
- View.
- Summary View
- Table View
- Summary.
- Compliance cards/plots.
Detailed information on each section:
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Filter Bar
- Filtering by blasts using multiple criteria.
- For comprehensive details, please navigate to the Filters section.
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View
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Summary View
- Navigate to the view selector.
- Select "Summary View"
- Displays Rock Volume, Drilling Length, Drilling Yield and Average Penetration Rate
- For comprehensive details, please check point point - Compliance cards and plots.
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Table View
- Navigate toe the view selector.
- Select "Table View"
- Table view will be visible and show relevant data.
- User the search boxes to filter the data.
- Click on the column headers to sort.
- You can download by clicking the download button to initiate a CSV file download.
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Summary View
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Summary
- Total Number of Blasts that have been fired or created.
- Total Number of Holes.
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Compliance Cards and Plots
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On the plots:
- Each plot includes a line with markers and a trend line.
- Null compliance (where no holes have been evaluated) is represented in a separate data set, which won't affect the trend line.
- Zooming in or out of one plot, the same zoom level is applied to all plots.
- Hovering over a specific plot provides relevant information on all plots, including blast name, metrics, and totals.
- Blasts are sorted chronologically, with the oldest on the left and the newest on the right, using the corresponding date applied in the filters (fired or created).
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On the cards:
- Rock Volume
- Design: Displays the total rock's design volume in units of m3 (with no decimal point).
- Viable: Displays the total rock's best available, viable volume in units of m3 (with no decimal point).
- Calculation:
- Variance = (Viable - Design) / Design *100
- Calculation:
- Is Actual: Displays the percentage of the actual rock volume.
- Calculation
- Is Actual = total number of holes that are Best Available Viable IsActual / total number of holes * 100
- Calculation
- Drilling Length
- Displays primary and secondary metrics.
- The chosen metrics will determine the information displayed in the card and plot. (including legend).
- Drilling Yield
- The chosen metrics from the Drilling Length selection drop-down will determine the information displayed on the drilling yield card and plot (including legend).
- Average Penetration Rate
- Shows the average penetration rate (m/hr) and hole count that comes from the Drill Actuals.
- Rock Volume
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On the plots:
Navigation to Single Blast Dashboard
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- Click on any data point in the rock volume plot to navigate to the desired metric dashboard for the selected blast.
- Upon clicking the data point, you will be automatically redirected to the powder factor dashboard to access specific details and insights.
- Click on any data point in the rock volume plot to navigate to the desired metric dashboard for the selected blast.