This digital guide allows fast and easy access to blasting parameter calculations, as well as useful reference data, Maxam product information and their user guides.

The X-BLASTERGUIDE also has specific safety features for loading explosives and blasting operations. For example, the application includes a risk assessment with a checklist of safety aspects that must be checked before, during and after any blasting, including lessons learned and best practices developed by the company in operations in more than 50 countries.

Another new feature is the calculations tool and graphic display of safety perimeters. According to the blasting characteristics, the X-BLASTERGUIDE creates the exclusion areas for teams and people on a satellite image of the land, with the option to save and export this image. Similarly, the user's location and other points of interest can be marked on the same view, in order to measure the distances and angles between them.

Vicente Huélamo, technical applications director at Maxam, explained: "The X-BLASTERGUIDE means a further step in our strategy to digitalise data collection, analysis and use in operations. The aim was to create a user-friendly tool, incorporating all the most common calculations and data that a shotfirers may need in an operation to perform an efficient and, above all, safe blasting. This tool provides everyone with part of the knowledge accumulated by our experts in projects all around the world."

The application is available for free for Android and iOS devices and can be downloaded from the corresponding market sites of each platform. The company has also created a user manual, which is available online.