Highlights at HILLHEAD 2024

BME and Strayos alliance optimises blasting with AI-driven insights

Omnia Holdings company BME has strengthened its blasting software offering beyond its premium Blastmap™ blast planning platform through a new partnership with technology leader Strayos. This alliance...

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BME AXXIS™ technology facilitates complex pit design change

The blasting expertise of BME’s AXXIS™ Product Support and Global Blasting Technical Services (GBTS), together with the drill and blast team at an open-cut metallurgical coal mine, successfully...

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BME hails maturing tech solutions at global explosives event

Companies in the blasting and explosives sector had opportunistically used the years of the Covid-19 pandemic to modernise and fine-tune their blasting technologies – a space where Omnia group company...

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BME proves a unique solution for colloidal silica in leaching

Following decades of challenges in the mining sector caused by colloidal silica in copper and cobalt leaching, BME Metallurgy has succeeded in developing and applying an innovative solution that...

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BME released Innovex™ 300D emulsion to deal with dynamic water

In line with its continuous innovation of blasting solutions, BME has developed Innovex™ 300D – a high-strength bulk emulsion explosive for challenging surface mining conditions including dynamic...

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BME Technical Summit channels expertise to map the future of mining

A renewed focus on enhancing safety, promoting sustainability, and providing tangible value to customers through responsible and innovative mining practices came under the spotlight at the...

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BME to rollout hydrogen peroxide emulsions in SADC mining markets

Omnia Holdings company BME and Swedish-based Hypex Bio Explosives Technology (Hypex Bio) have advanced their partnership beyond Canada by initiating an infrastructure and product development programme...

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BME uses AXXIS on Australian mine to solve efficiency, safety challenge

When an Australian opencast coal mine wanted to eliminate the need for bulldozer push operations, while ensuring safe and productive blasting, it turned to BME for its electronic initiation solutions....

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BME’s debut at CIM Connect 2025 a success

The mining industry’s alignment with global sustainability goals was under the spotlight at CIM Connect 2025 in Montreal in May, with BME Mining Canada attracting considerable attention in its debut...

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Issue 06/2022 Customised blasting solutions

BME’s new AXXIS Silver™ aims at small mines and quarries

Ensuring that quarries and smaller mines can leverage the latest generation of its AXXIS™ digital initiation system, Omnia company BME has recently launched AXXIS Silver™. According to Tinus Brits,...

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