Blasting Solutions
Senatel™ Sonex
Reliable TNT-free booster designed to support uninterrupted blasting operations
Trusted TNT-free performance for sites managing supply constraints with confidence.
Trusted TNT-free performance for sites managing supply constraints with confidence.
Senatel™ Sonex is a TNT-free booster designed with customer needs in mind. Built on Orica’s history of trusted and proven explosive solutions, Senatel™ Sonex ensures reliable performance in low dynamic shock risk environments. Designed for use across surface and underground applications, it provides a dependable alternative for customers without compromising practical field performance. Senatel™ Sonex offers robust construction, dependable initiation with Orica detonators, excellent water resistance and suitability for a range of blasting environments.
Regional variants also include practical design features that help protect detonator leads or shock tubes, support correct detonator positioning and reduce operational risk during priming.
Product benefits
Product benefits
Orica’s products and services are designed to help you achieve safer, more efficient and more sustainable outcomes, wherever you operate.
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Improve safety
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Specification documents
Specification documents
Why choose Senatel™ Sonex?
Why choose Senatel™ Sonex?
- Reliable priming performance
Designed to provide safe and reliable priming of booster-sensitive explosives across surface and underground applications. - TNT-free alternative
Developed to support continuity of operations in response to global TNT supply constraints. - Excellent water resistance
High water resistance helps maintain performance in demanding ground and wet hole conditions. - Robust, field-ready design
High-strength construction and practical design features support reliable handling and application in the field. - Operational confidence
Suitable for modern blasting environments where ease of use, reliable initiation and continuity matter.
Industries
Industries
Iron ore
Surface metal
Surface coal
Underground mining
Quarrying
Hole conditions
Hole conditions
Dry
Dewatered
Wet
Further insights
Further insights
What is Senatel™ Sonex?
Senatel™ Sonex is a detonator-sensitive TNT-free booster designed for priming applications in mining and blasting operations. It is developed to provide reliable initiation performance in surface and underground environments.
What are the benefits of Senatel™ Sonex?
Key benefits include reliable priming performance, excellent water resistance, robust construction and suitability for challenging blasting conditions. It also provides a TNT-free alternative for operations responding to supply constraints.
Where can Senatel™ Sonex be used?
Senatel™ Sonex is designed for use in most surface and underground blasting applications requiring safe and reliable priming of booster-sensitive explosives. Regional variants also support use with pumped, poured and packaged explosives.
How is Senatel™ Sonex initiated?
The technical data sheets state that Senatel™ Sonex can be reliably initiated with Orica high-strength electric, electronic or non-electric detonators, depending on the regional product guidance.
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Iron ore
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Quarrying
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Surface coal
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Underground construction and tunnelling
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Underground mining
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