Mike Lovitt is a Global Underground Technical Specialist for Orica. He is widely known as “The Global Mass Blasting Specialist”.

In this Blasting marathon, we talked:

– Mike’s early career as a Engineer and Manager

– Old School Mass Blasting

– Science behind pulling a cut – Emulsion vs ANFO

– Mike’s role in the Beaconsfield rescue

– Low voidage blasting

– Mike’s funky designs for blasting Shale Oil development in Estonia

– Upcoming Blasting automation

Plus much more.