BlastIQ™ Insights - Underground Blast Progress

Last updated April 15, 2026 02:22

Release Date:: 19^th December 2024
KBA Summary:: This Knowledge Base Article describes the functionality of the Underground Blast Progress dashboard in BlastIQ™ Insights.

Summary

BlastIQ™ Insights Underground Blast Progress Dashboard allows real-time monitoring of the Drill and Blast process, ensuring effective task management and preventing delays in scheduled blasts. The dashboard is refreshed every 5 minutes and displays blasts from the past three days by default. This covers blasts modified or created within the last three days using SHOTPlus™, BlastIQ™ Mobile, LOADPlus™, or the BlastIQ™ External API.

There might be a delay of up to 20 minutes for a new blast to appear on the dashboard. This delay is due to calculating the blast boundary performed at the database level.

Navigation

To navigate to the Blast Progress Dashboard:

From the BlastIQ™ Insights toolbar, select Dashboards.
From the Dashboards menu, select 'Blast Progress'.

Filters

Blasts can be filtered using the following filters:

Days Selection:
- Choose 1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 90, 120, and 365 from the dropdown list.
- The selected value determines the number of displayed blasts with a maximum limit of up to 120 blasts and no hole limit.
Blast Status Filter:
- Select : All, Fired or Not Fired.
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. You can read more about Tags here.
Clear All filters - clears any filters that have been applied.
Last Refreshed:
- The last refresh time will be displayed, and the data will auto-refresh every 5 minutes.

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.
Clicking a plan name applies the selected value to the text filter, resulting in the blast name list being filtered accordingly.

Information

The following information is shown on the Blast Progress Dashboard:

Filter Bar.
Summary.
Table View.
Progress Gauges.
Blast Hole Status.
Tasks Remaining.
Legend.

Detailed information on each section:

Filter Bar
- For comprehensive details, please navigate to the Filters section.
Summary
- Total Number of Blasts that have been fired or created.
- Total Number of Holes.
  - Viable Holes = Count of holes that are not marked as "NotDrill" or "Abandoned".
  - Open = Blasts that have not been fired.
Table View
- Use the search boxes to filter the data.
- Click on the column headers to sort.
- Column filtering updates all components, including Summary, Table View, Progress Gauges, Blast Hole Status, and Task Remaining.
- You can download by clicking the download button to initiate a CSV file download.
- Navigation via Columns
  - Clicking one of the columns names direct to the Drilling Length dashboard.
    - Length (m)
    - Drilled
    - To Drill
    - To Drill (m)
    - Prepped
    - To Prep
    - Measured
    - Checked
  - Clicking one of the column names direct to the Loading Weight dashboard.
    - Partially Charged
    - Charged (kg)
    - To Charge
    - To Charge (kg)
Progress Gauges
- Data displayed in this section is exclusively for open blasts that have not been fired yet. Blasts that have already been fired will not have any data populated.
- It displays different statuses, the total number of viable holes, and their percentage.
- Drilled
  - Holes that have any indication of being drilled, i.e. have drill actuals imported and uploaded from SHOTPlus™ or via API drill system integration, have a measured actual length or any loading recorded against them.
  - Calculations:
    - - Percentage
        Drilled = (Number of drilled holes / Total viable holes) * 100
      - Number of drilled holes = Sum of drilled + measured + loaded + stemmed holes
      - Total viable holes = total designed holes - abandoned - drilled - fired holes
- Preppped
  - Holes with Actual Length, includes holes added in BlastIQ™ Mobile or LOADPlus™ or Drilled holes directly added to the API via drill system integration with actual length.
  - Calculations:
    - - Percentage
        Prepped= (Number of measured holes / Total viable holes) * 100
      - Number of prepped holes = Sum of prepped+ charged
      - Total viable holes = total designed holes - abandoned - drilled - fired holes
- Charged
  - All explosives have been checked.
  - Percentage of holes that are fully loaded or stemmed.
  - Calculations:
    - Percentage
      - Charged = (Number of charged holes / Total viable holes) * 100
    - Number of charged holes = (Sum of prepped and stemmed holes) that are viable.
    - Total viable holes = total designed holes - abandoned - drilled - fired holes
Blast Hole Status
- The information shown in this section is specifically for open blasts that haven't been fired. Blasts that have been fired won't have any data populated.
- On hover, it displays the count and percentage of holes in each state:
  - Charged
  - Partially Charged
  - Prepped
  - Drilled
  - Designed
  - Non-Viable
  - Unknown
Tasks Remaining
- The information shown in this section is specifically for open blasts that haven't been fired. Blasts that have been fired won't have any data populated.
- Displays the number of holes per state.
  - To Drill: Holes that are designed but haven't been drilled, measured, loaded or stemmed. 'To Drill' meters is the sum of the design length of all 'To Drill' holes.
    - Calculations
      - To Drill = Count of holes with drilling design but not yet drilled.
      - Metres = Sum of Designed Length for holes that need to be drilled.
  - To Prep: Holes that are designed but haven't been prepped and charged.
    - Calculations
      - To Measure = Count of holes that are not preppped, partially charged or charged.
  - To Charge: Holes that are designed or added in the field but are not fully charged. This includes prepped and partially charged holes. The 'To Load weight' is the updated design weight or the difference between the actual weight and the updated design weight for partially loaded holes.
    - Calculations
      - To Charge= Count of holes charged.
      - To Load Weight = Sum of toLoadWeight for holes that need to be loaded.
  - Not Drilled: How many holes have been flagged as Not drilled.
  - Abandoned: How may holes have been flagged as abandoned.
Legends
- The following legends offer a visual reference for understanding the statuses shown on the progress gauges, blast hole status, and map.
  - Non-Viable
  - Drilled
  - Partially Charged
  - Designed
  - Prepped
  - Charged
  - Fired

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