The mining industry faces unprecedented challenges with declining ore grades, increasing operational costs, and a massive shortage of skilled workers. Mineral resources are essential for humanity’s future and our consumption are only growing, vastly outpacing the supply of new ore. Productivity has stagnated, and companies are struggling to maintain profitability.

Blasting is at the core of hard rock mining and yet, it still relies on outdated methods and tribal knowledge. Most sites lack cross-functional integration and modern optimization tools, mine-to-mill integration, and data-driven insights. This results in suboptimal fragmentation, increased dilution, wasted energy, and higher processing costs downstream, put simply, worse blasts at higher costs which takes longer to excavate.

We’re building Rockhound to address these challenges. Leveraging all potential data sources to optimize your blasts and all the processes dependent on your blast results, we’re building a centralized platform that will predict what you’re blasting, how to best blast it, and how to optimize your processes downstream. We want you blasting faster, cheaper, and with better outcomes.