Providing Information to Manage Your Drilling & Blasting

Thunderbird has been supplying drilling instrumentation to the mining industry for over 25 years. These systems are being utilized on blasthole drills in all types of open pit mines across the world, including the harshest conditions of tundra & desert. Our products have proven to have high paybacks & provide critical information to the drill operator, the blasting crew & mine management.

Benefits of the Thunderbird systems include:

• More Accurate Hole Depths - eliminate over or under drilling
• Accurate Hole Locations without Surveying - improve blasting & fragmentation lowering overall mining costs
• Optimize ROP for the Drilling Conditions - increased footage or meters
• Identify Coal Seams or Hard/Soft Strata Zones - more accurate blasting & reduced explosive costs
• Track Delays - maximize drilling time
• Automate the Collection of Production & Drill Stem Data - eliminate the hand-written reports & provide more accurate data
• Training Tool - provide feedback to new operators