BlastIQ™ Insights. - Underground Overview Dashboard

Last updated August 27, 2026 00:31

Release Date:: 24^th July 2023
KBA Summary:: This Knowledge Base Article describes the functionality of the Underground Overview dashboard in BlastIQ™ Insights.

Summary

BlastIQ™ Insights Underground Overview Dashboard provides a summarised view of totals pertaining to a defined set of blasts, all on a single page. This dashboard enables users to generate single blast, weekly, monthly or quarterly reports based on a range of filters.

Navigation

To navigate to the Overview Dashboard:

From the BlastIQ™ Insights toolbar, select Dashboards.
From the Dashboards menu, select Overview.

Filters

Blasts can be filtered using the following filters:

Group Filter
- Allows users to toggle between two views and available for Underground sites.
  - By Blast: Displays all the blasts existing in the site.
  - By Blast Group Name: Displays data by Plan Group.
Search Field:
- Dynamically adjusts based on the selected filter:
  - When By Blasts is selected, use the search field to search for a particular blast.
  - When By Plan Group Name is selected, use the search field to search for a particular group.
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.
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 20, 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 and whether these blasts are picked from oldest first or newest first.

Plan Group Selector

When clicking the selector, a list of Plan Groups will appear. This selection will only include Plan Groups with blasts within the defined filters, as detailed in the previous section.
If the user types a string of characters within the text box of the selector, only the Plan Groups that include that string in their name will be shown.
Once a Plan Group is selected, the information in the dashboard will only show the totals and KPI for the blasts that belong to that Plan Group.
Multiple Plan Groups can be selected to display information relative to them.

Information

The following information is shown on the Overview Dashboard:

Filter Bar.
Select Blasts
Summary.
Hole Condition.
QA/QC.
Compliance.
Quantities.
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Comprehensive information is provided in each section.

Filter Bar:
- Filtering by blasts using multiple criteria.
- For comprehensive details, please navigate to the Filters section.
Summary
- Total Number of Blasts that have been fired or created.
- Total Number of Holes.
Hole Condition:
- Actual Information
  - The total count of holes is shown for each state, including Drilled, Measured, Loaded, and Stemmed.
    - For Drilling, it will only count when the passes recorded is Production.
  - Hovering the mouse over the stacked bar, you can view the number of holes per state and their corresponding percentage.
- Water Presence
  - The total count and percentage of the wet, dry, and unknown holes.
  - Calculation:
    - Unknown = Total holes - (Wet holes + Dry holes)
    - Wet = Total number of wet holes
    - Dry = Total number of dry holes
- Exceptions
  - The number of holes and their respective percentages are displayed for the following states: Not drilled, Abandoned, Potential Misfire, Conflicting measurements, and Holes blocked.
- Hot Ground
  - On hover, it shows the number of holes.
  - Displays the temperature range, corresponding percentage of the total holes of each temperature category. Read more here on how to configure.
  - Only visible for site that have temperature enabled.
  - If colour or ranges have suffered any changes and numbers do not seem accurate, please get in touch with BlastIQ Support to get these calculations reprocessed.
QA / QC:
- Prepped: holes that have been checked, measured or both.
  - Measured
    - Holes that have their parameters measured and manually entered in BIQ Mobile.
  - Checked:
    - Holes that have been assessed to comply with design specifications and manually marked as such using the relevant bulk action.
- Redrills:
  - Not Redrilled: holes with the redrill required tag that are not present in the 'redrill of' field on another hole.
  - Redrilled: holes with the redrill required tag that is present in the 'redrill of' field on another hole.
  - Redrill Of: holes marked as a 'redrill of' another hole.
- Cleanouts
  - Remediation work completed against a hole that has been measured and noted as short or blocked after the initial production pass. A cleanout is intended to reopen the hole to it's design length, diameter and breakthrough status. More than one cleanout pass may be completed against a hole if the initial cleanout pass was unsuccessful. Completion of a cleanout pass is optional and is intended to improve handovers between work groups and the reporting of drilling actuals.
  - Shows the proportion of cleanout drilling meters compared to other drilling meters within the selected filter.
  - Displays the total number of holes that contain cleanout passes only.
  - Displays the total number of drilling passes recorded for those holes.
  - Displays the total drilled length (m) for cleanout passes recorded.
- Reamer holes
  - A pass used to increase the diameter of an initial production pass, where the production pass diameter does not equal the final design diameter. Reamer passes are typically completed in underground operations where underground drilling equipment is unable to achieve the final diameter in a single pass. More than one reamer pass may be completed against a hole if the initial reamer pass did not achieve the final design diameter. Completion of a reamer pass is optional and is intended to improve handovers between work groups and the reporting of drilling actuals.
  - Displays the total number of holes that contain reamer passes only.
  - Displays the total number of reamer passes recorded.
  - Display the total reamed length across all recorded reaming passes.
- Breakthrough:
  - Display the number of holes and percentages representing the total designed to breakthrough and the percentage of the total not designed to breakthrough.
  - Designed
    - Calculation
      - Compliant = (Breakthrough / Designed to Breakthrough) * 100
      - Non-Compliant = (Not Breakthrough / Designed to Breakthrough) * 100
      - Unknown = (Unknown / Designed to Breakthrough) * 100
  - Not Designed
    - Calculation
      - Compliant = (Not Breakthrough / Designed not to Breakthrough) * 100
      - Non-Compliant = (Breakthrough / Designed not to Breakthrough) * 100
      - Unknown = (Unknown / Designed not to Breakthrough) * 100
Compliance:
- Drilling Length
  - Choose one of the comparison options (Drill Actual Length, First Measure Length, Measured Length or Length After Backfill) from the drop-down list.
  - Click on the legend like Overdrilled, Compliant and Undrilled.
  - Hovering the mouse over the stacked bar, you can view the number of holes per state and their corresponding percentage.
- Loading Weight
  - Choose one of the comparison options (Design, Adjusted Design, Weight and Weight %) from the drop-down list.
  - Click on the legend like Overloaded, Complaint or Underloaded.
  - Hovering the mouse over the stacked bar, you can view the number of holes per state and their corresponding percentage.
  - Calculations
    - Compliance Score (%) = 100 * W / M
    where:
    
    W = within tolerance holes
    
    M = overloaded holes + underloaded holes + within tolerances holes
Quantities:
- Loading Weight
  - Bar chart displays on bar per state:
    - Design: Total design bulk weight and design packaged weight is displayed in tonnes (t) units with one decimal point.
    - Adjusted Design: Total adjusted design bulk weight and design packaged weight are displayed in tonnes (t) units with one decimal point.
    - Actual: Total actual bulk weight + design packaged weight is displayed in tonnes (t) units with one decimal point.
  - Hovering the mouse over the bar chart per state displays the total loading weight.
- Drilling Length
  - Bar chart displays one bar per state (Design, Drilled, Measured, and Checked)
  - Hovering the mouse over the bar chart displays the total drilling length.
- Explosives Used
  - Bar chart displays one bar per explosive used.
  - Hovering the mouse over the bar chart displays the actual weight of the product.

Calculations

Comparison Options:
- Design - Provides a view of of the actual recorded hole loading against the original loading design. Actual Hole Weight vs Design Hole Weight.
- Adjusted Design - Provides a view of of the actual recorded hole loading against the latest adjusted loading design. Actual Hole Weight vs Adjusted Design Hole Weight.
- Weight - Hole Compliance is based on the Weight (absolute) reporting tolerance.
- Weight % - Hole Compliance is based on the Weight % reporting tolerance.

Note: All weight comparison are at hole level, i.e. aggregation of all explosives deck weights in a hole.

Tolerances:
- Weight and Weight % tolerances considered in this dashboard are the site level reporting tolerances. Read more here.
Compliance Score:
- For any of the comparisons, the compliance score (%) is calculated as follows:
  Compliance Score (%) = 100*W/M
  where:
  W = within tolerance holes
  M = overloaded holes + underloaded holes + within tolerance holes
Holes Considered
- For a hole to be considered in the compliance score, it needs to have both the corresponding design and actual values.

Note:

All percentage values are truncated to 1 decimal place.
All other values are rounded to 1 decimal place.

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