Meet our people - Badisheng Morena

Mining Engineer Badisheng Morena says Maptek represents highly quality products that are delivered by hardworking consultants who care about the clients we serve.

A personal highlight that exemplifies this is when in 2020 Badisheng helped the drill and blast team at Anglo American Mogalakwena operation to use the BlastLogic tie-up tool with every blast.

‘Maptek places great importance on providing timely, quality support to customers,’ Badisheng says. ‘This allows us to apply our knowledge and experience to solve their burning issues.

‘When I arrived at Mogalakwena, the drill & blast team was committed to participating in their global corporate BlastLogic rollout, but they didn’t know how to recreate the tie-ups inside the new system.

‘They explained the magnitude and direction of the burden response, having first used timing lines in BlastLogic to reliably replicate their tie-up design from another program.

‘When I suggested using Timing Roses instead, they took it on enthusiastically and now use BlastLogic exclusively for tie-up.’

The six Drill and Blast Engineers at Mogalakwena can now collaborate on tie-ups saved on the BlastLogic server and they are also building a database of tie-up designs, actual charge mass loaded and actual stemming length along with performance data to benchmark and measure continual improvement.

‘This achievement shines a light on how helping customers apply our technologies to their issue makes a difference in the overall technology space.’