Epiroc exploration surge: workflow and data quality takeaways for mine planners
Reviewed by Tom Sullivan
First reported on International Mining – News
30 Second Briefing
Epiroc reports that exploration was again one of its fastest-growing business lines in 2025, with President and CEO Helena Hedblom linking the uptick to a broader market push for new orebody discovery alongside automation, electrification and digitalisation. The company is leveraging its integrated exploration portfolio – from surface and underground drill rigs to rock drilling tools and digital data solutions – to capture this demand. For mine planners and geotechnical teams, the trend signals sustained investment in early-stage drilling campaigns and associated data quality, core handling and resource-definition workflows.
Technical Brief
- For geotechnical teams, tighter rig–tool–data integration can improve QA/QC on core recovery and orientation.
Our Take
Epiroc appears repeatedly in our recent Mining coverage not just in exploration but across the value chain, from autonomous haulage at Agnico Eagle’s Odyssey mine to eDrive trucks at Gold Fields’ Granny Smith, signalling a strategy to lock in customers with a full equipment and digital ecosystem rather than stand‑alone products.
The January 2026 note on Epiroc and Major Drilling advancing the DiscovOre and Arrow 3S core barrel system shows that Epiroc’s ‘comprehensive’ exploration pitch is underpinned by concrete tooling upgrades aimed at reducing manual handling, which is likely to appeal to contractors facing labour constraints and safety scrutiny.
With Epiroc also present in the RCT remote shutdown deployment at Glencore’s McArthur River Mine, the company is increasingly associated in our database with automation and remote‑operation themes, suggesting that any expanded exploration offering will probably be tightly integrated with digital control and data platforms from the outset.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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