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Block Cave - Drawbell & Undercut: Reduce cycle times by pre-charging rings with WebGen™. Eliminate the need for rill stabilisation and redrilling
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Block Cave - Pre-Conditioning: Reduce complexity of the drill and blast process, remove people from hazardous areas and complete mining cycle faster.
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Simplified Bench Operations: WebGen™ reduces complexity of on bench operations and eliminates wire related misfires in Surface Mining.
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Stranded Pillar Recovery: Pillar extraction is high cost and resource heavy. Reduce extraction costs up to 75% using wireless technology.
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Sub Level Caves: By pre-charging blast holes WebGen™ offers a significantly safer solution at SLC operations, reducing exposure of personnel at the brow and the opportunity move more material per shift lowering overall cost per tonne.
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Sub Level Open Stope: Aggregating charging events will minimise re-entry to the stope, reduce dilution, maximise free bogging and increase the speed of stope turnover.
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Temporary Pillar Recovery: Revolutionary mining method to extract ore pillars that previously could not be recovered. Using WebGen™ the inaccessible pillars can be blasted, reducing dilution by >30% and increasing truck fill factors.
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How It Works

The WebGen™ system completely eliminates the need for down-lines and surface connecting wires, communicates through rock, air and water to initiate blasts reliably and safely, removing people from harm’s way.

WebGen™ enables new mining methods and blasting techniques to increase productivity and reduce blasting costs. Using low frequency magnetic waves to communicate to each WebGen™ primer prior to a blast, WebGen™ is the only commercial explosives product with SIL 3 rating.

Featured News

11 May 2023 Stay ahead of the storm (pdf 1MB): Martin Adam, Senior Manager of Commercialisation explains how conventional initiation systems impose constraints that limit mining fleet productivity during storm seasons. Our WebGen™ 200 wireless initiating system removes these constraints and creates opportunities for significant improvements in s ...
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7 Mar 2023 WebGen™ 200 Surface Wireless Initiating System Set for Commercial ReleaseThis link will open in a new window: Orica today announced the commercial release of WebGen™ 200 Surface. Developed based on the success of more than 5,000 WebGen™ 100 blasts around the world, containing over 150,000 primers, Orica’s WebGen™ 200 Surface will change how the industry blasts, more safe and efficient blasting. The wirele ...
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30 Jan 2023 Orica Wins Two Categories in the 2022 Mining Magazine AwardsThis link will open in a new window: Orica has taken home two category wins in the 2022 Mining Magazine Awards: In the Drill and Blast category, winning with our 4D™ bulk explosives system, and in the Operations and Safety category, our WebGen™ Mine Schedule Flexibility. A fitting recognition to our teams involved in the winning techno ...
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19 Oct 2022 Orica Successfully Trials WebGen™ 200 Surface at Blair AtholThis link will open in a new window: The Alpha trial program is a comprehensive verification process and validation product testing in field and Orica has hit some successful milestones recently with Alpha trials for their WebGen™ 200 Surface primer in USA, Chile and now in Australia with Blair Athol being the first coal mine globally ...
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6 Dec 2021 Blasting the surface (pdf 9.3MB): Wireless initiating systems allow for groups of in-hole primers to be wirelessly initiated by a firing command that communicates through rock, air, and water. This World Coal article looks at how wireless blasting can benefit surface mining operations.
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16 Nov 2021 Media Release - Orica reports successful production trial of WebGen™ 200This link will open in a new window: As Orica progress towards the full commercial release of WebGen™ 200, another milestone was recently achieved at Moose Creek Quarry in Canada.
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10 Sep 2021 Media Release - Orica to unveil second generation through-the-earth, fully wireless initiating technologyThis link will open in a new window: Orica’s WebGen™ 200 technology has been designed with customers’ needs and feedback built-in as they look to further improve safety and productivity across their operations.
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11 Feb 2021 The era of wireless blasting (pdf 8.4MB): The era of wireless blasting has truly arrived, delivering quantifiable benefits across every mining segment, including improved safety, operational flexibility, and increased ore recovery – all of which are key industry drivers.
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24 Nov 2020 Down to the wireless (pdf 7.1MB): In early 2017, Orica launched WebGen™, a fully wireless initiating system for the first stage in fully automating the drill and blast process. It has now been fired in over 650 blasts in both surface and underground mines around the world.
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10 Aug 2020 Initiating change (pdf 2.9MB): Having sweated all the assets possible to bring down their cost base, mining companies are now addressing the front end of the process to cut costs further. International Mining looks at how the explosives and blasting sector is responding.
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18 Feb 2020 Blasting without wires in Surface and Underground (pdf 239.6KB): Since the launch of WebGen™, the world’s first wireless initiating system in early 2017, Orica has executed more than 500 blasts fired using the wireless technology in both surface and underground mines around the world.
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2 Aug 2019 Beyond Blasting (pdf 1.8MB): International Mining looks at innovations in the explosives and blasting sector, with one eye on automation and wireless detonation procedures.
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22 May 2019 2019 Winner of Austmine Innovation AwardThis link will open in a new window: Orica won the Austmine METS Innovation Award for WebGen™.
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1 Nov 2018 No wires new ideas Musselwhite (pdf 436.1KB): Newmont Goldcorp trials new mining methods at Musselwhite with WebGen™.
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30 Jul 2018 2018 AFR Top 100 Company - Most Improved Innovative CompanyThis link will open in a new window: Orica won the 2018 AFR Top 100 Company - Most Innovative Company Award with WebGen™.
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13 Feb 2018 2017 Mining Innovation Of the Year Award - Australia's Mining MonthlyThis link will open in a new window: Orica emerged triumphant in the 2018 Australia’s Mining Monthly Awards with WebGen™.
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25 Jan 2018 WebGen™ Wireless Initiation Technology wins 2018 Mining Magazine Award (pdf 1.3MB): Orica has been announced as the winner of the 2018 Mining Magazine Award in the category of ‘Drill & Blast’.
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17 Oct 2017 Going Wireless (pdf 1.5MB): Orica has officially launched its wireless electronic blasting system WebGen™ 100 delivering what the explosives company says is a step-change in in-hole initiation and a step towards automating drill and blast operations.
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Customer Stories

Michael Moloney
Finance and Commercial Manager
Blair Athol Terracom Limited

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“Lightning can have a real severe impact on our blasting activities. With WebGen we're looking at safer blasts"
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Customer Stories

Emma Sloan
Operations Manager
Blair Athol Terracom Limited

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“You load the shot and you can fire it that day. You'll be a day ahead every time you shoot a WebGen shot”
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Customer Stories

Katja Sahala
Mine Planning Engineer
FQM Pyhäsalmi

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“I believe that this will be helpful in several applications, for example when you need to leave ore behind, support pillars or have weak rock or fill and selective mining is needed leaving ore behind to support”
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Billy Grace
Chief Engineer
Newmont Goldcorp Musselwhite

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“The entire team is excited by the possibilities that WebGen opened up, and the new opportunities they are allowing for us to increase our productivity.”
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Customer Stories

Rob Cunningham
Mining Operations Manager
Northparkes Mines

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“With WebGen, we’ve been able to increase our primary draw and we’ve also been able to eliminate redrills. We see at Northparkes that this offers us the best opportunity around being an industry leader in mine design and mine construction for future block cave mining.”
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Customer Stories

Simon Barnes
Superintendent Production
Ernest Henry Mining Glencore

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“Orica’s partnership brings new technologies and industry knowledge to Ernest Henry site, ensuring targets are met for the mill.”

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Gordon Botha
Mining Engineer - Technical Services
Ernest Henry Mining Glencore

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“WebGen is a wireless system, you do not need to access the drive again.”

Customer Stories

Ernest Henry Mining
Glencore

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The most unique thing about the WebGen detonators is the ability to fire them completely remotely.

Customer Stories

Peter Nichols
Superintendent Technical Services
Ernest Henry Mining Glencore

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“One of the big opportunities with WebGen was the ability to redesign the mine and redesign complex firings and take opportunity.”

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Michael Hawtin
Lead Resource Engineer
Ernest Henry Mining Glencore

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“The overall benefit for Ernest Henry is not only the reduced development and the financial reduction we have seen, it is also the de-risking of additional ore that we are also gaining with this trial.”
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Resources

WebGen™ 200 Introduction Video This link will open in a new window

WebGen™ 200 Introduction Video
WebGen™ 200 has been built with enhanced capabilities, security and versatility, meeting the extreme mining conditions faced by surface and underg ...

Temporary Rib Pillar Method This link will open in a new window

Temporary Rib Pillar Animation
Temporary pillars are pre-charged with WebGen™ to hold back the waste rock back fill in mining methods like modified AVOCA.

Block Cave - Hang-up Blasting This link will open in a new window

Block Cave - Hang-up Blasting
Discover how WebGen™ reduces production delays, exposure time to drawpoints and wet muck hazards and increase drawpoint availability.

Block Cave - Pre-conditioning This link will open in a new window

Block Cave - Pre-conditioning Animation
Remove people from harm’s way with WebGen™ in resource intensive pre-conditioning of block cave mines.