Safe, efficient, effective.

Blasting and explosives play a major role in most mining methods. At Austin Powder, our services are used by many customers in developing the mining plan and, ultimately, the blast designs that will be used. Most producers use explosives to move as many yards of material as possible in order to reduce the yards moved by mining equipment.

To accomplish safe and efficient blasting, the following services are a few of those available to our customers:

• Laser Profiling
  Provides data to help control blasting safety and environmental efforts of blasting
• Austin Blasting Software (ABS)
  Allows computer simulations and blast design review during the planning stages
• Q.E.D.
  A state-of-the-art computerized "virtual mining method" software package

The combination of these technologies with solid principles of blasting and the Austin team's years of experience gives us a unique place in the blasting industry. That is why mining managers across the globe relay on Austin's Technical Services to assure the safety and efficiency of their mining operations.