Hexagon Split: Closing the drill and blast gap
Learn more about how Split Engineering helps expand Hexagon’s life-of-mine vision from pit to plant and closes the loop on drill and blast design.
Hexagon Split
Manage fragmentation from blast to mill with the most technologically advanced image-analysis techniques used by mines worldwide and based on more than 25 years of research and development.
Manage rock size to increase profitability
Optimize fragmentation with an integrated blast-to-mill suite and save your mine significant costs while improving drill and blast processes.
An interactive mining experience
Interactively explore your own life-of-mine journey to see how Hexagon leads to safer, more productive, more sustainable and more profitable mines across the entire mine site lifecycle, or contact us to discuss your unique challenges.
Main benefits
Improves milling productivity
Ensures correct fragmentation to be properly prepared for the extraction process and downstream activities, such as mining, crushing and milling.
Gets a key D&B step right
Correct fragmentation means easier digging, reduced shovel cycle times, reduced rework and less oversize causing downtime at the crusher.
The Split advantage
Measures particle-size distributions from mine-to-mill, to manage blast design, optimize fragmentation, and increase productivity and profits.
Fragmentation analysis expands your life-of-mine vision
Hexagon Split’s image processing technology delivers high-quality information that enables you to manage your processes from drill to mill and improve mine profits.
- Split-ConveyorCam for primary crusher, secondary, tertiary, pebble crusher and screen decks provides an online measurement of the particle size distribution information for any conveyor belt location.
- Split-TruckCam measures in real time the PSD of post-blasted rock delivered to the primary crusher, effectively and efficiently managing the transition from pit to plant.
- Split-ShovelCam monitors shovels, conveyor belts and truck tips into the primary crusher in real time to deliver the key metric of particle size, quantifying post-blast fragmentation.
- Split-Desktop delivers manual, off-line coarse rock fragmentation size analysis of muck piles, leach pads and more.
- Split-Net leverages experienced personnel to process your images for you and provides a size distribution report.
- Split-FX is a point-cloud processing software that provides geotechnical analysis using modern 3D imaging technologies.
Post-blast muckpile images captured, processed in real time
Immediate feedback to the mine on blast performance; feed forward to the plant on what is coming from the mine; correlation of PSD to shovel maintenance and enhanced process control decisions; the only place to measure run-of-mine leach ore.
Run-of-mine material from haul trucks captured, processed
Automatic and real-time feedback to the mine on blast performance; feed forward to the plant on what is coming from the mine; correlation of PSD to operational performance and enhanced process control decisions.
Image processing for any conveyor belt or feeder location
Continuous, automatic, non-invasive monitoring system employing image processing technology for particle size, shape and color for any conveyor belt or feeder location. Immediate feedback to crushing, screening, and milling in the comminution circuit.
How two mines saved $7.5-million US a month
In our case study, learn how two Peruvian copper mines used Hexagon Split to maximize monthly profits with fragmentation analysis after recognizing the need to invest in drill and blast operations.
Why choose an Hexagon Split solution?
In our software and service overview brochure, learn more about Hexagon Split products: Split-ShovelCam, Split-TruckCam, Split Conveyor-Cam, Split-Net, Split-FX and Split Desktop.
Manage rock size to increase profit
In our video, see how Hexagon Split’s image processing technology delivers high-quality information that enables you to manage your processes from drill to mill and improve mine profits.
