Onboard Measure While Drilling Analytics: Rotary Geo
Rotary Geo is a software option for Sandvik’s iSeries Rotary Drill, turning it into a measurement tool during drilling. The data is also visualized onboard for the operator, who can select which parameter to view.
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Full pattern coverage across drills
Today, blasting is planned on incomplete data. Operations rely on manual input and sparse core samples that result in inconsistent blasts, wasted energy, and downstream costs on time and equipment maintenance.
There's a better way to make blasting decisions, and it's already inside the iSeries models equipped with the TIM3D drill navigation system.
Instead of interpolating rock strength between widely spaced sample points, you get a verified hardness profile across the entire pattern, built from the drilling you are already doing. The picture of the orebody is continuous, and it comes at no additional cost to the drilling cycle.
Four ways Rotary Geo puts MWD-A data to work
01 — Real-time ore identification
As each hole is drilled, Rotary Geo detects changes in rock hardness, helping identify potential ore/waste boundaries, supporting selective mining. In softer ground, the same data helps delineate features such as coal seams; in hard rock, it builds a blastability profile in and around each hole.
02 — Blast optimization
With verified rock strength for every hole, blasting teams can adjust explosive loads hole by hole rather than across broad zones. Matching energy to the ground produces more consistent fragmentation, reduces overbreak, and limits vibration that could disturb neighboring areas, lowering downstream handling costs.
03 — Smarter automation
Measured rock data will eventually feed the AutoDrill algorithm, helping it maintain penetration rate and hole quality as conditions change. Autonomous performance and efficiency will improve as the system accumulates data from the formation.
04 — Equipment and consumable planning
By monitoring drilling dynamics, Rotary Geo provides data to help anticipate bit and consumable wear. That supports parts availability, protects the rig, and keeps productivity predictable.
Bring Rotary Geo into your digital ecosystem
Rotary Geo captures valuable drilling data, but the next advantage comes when that data reaches the people and systems that need it. Sandvik's iLink Data Interface automatically routes measurement data into QA, compliance, planning, blasting, and haulage workflows. The My Sandvik Onsite Database product offers another way to share Rotary Geo data. My Sandvik Onsite (MSO) is a separate product.
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Available now across the iSeries range
Rotary Geo is ready to run on the drills you already operate. Talk to your Sandvik representative to confirm compatibility and start turning every hole into usable rock data.
