Orica manufactures explosives, initiation systems and specialty mining chemicals as well as digital blasting and geotechnical solutions for the global mining industry.
Orica Limited
Deer Park, Victoria (AU) · Kooragang Island / Hunter Valley (AU)New on Amplifa
About Orica
Orica Limited is a publicly listed company (ASX: ORG) founded in 1874 in Deer Park, Victoria (Australia), with more than 14,000 employees. The company develops, manufactures and markets explosives (bulk and packaged explosives), initiation systems including the patented wireless WebGen™ system, specialty mining chemicals – in particular sodium cyanide as the world's largest mining-specialized producer – as well as emulsifiers and flotation chemicals such as Danafloat™. The three business divisions Blasting Solutions, Digital Solutions and Specialty Mining Chemicals form an integrated offering of products, services and digital technology: blast design software (SHOTPlus™, BlastIQ™, FRAGTrack™, OREPro™), downhole surveying (Axis Mining Technology) and geotechnical monitoring (GroundProbe, RST Instruments, InSAR). Customers come from surface and underground mining, quarries, construction, civil infrastructure, tunneling as well as oil and gas. Orica supplies customers in over 100 countries from a global network of production and service locations; the historic founding site is Deer Park, and the production site for the Hunter Valley Hydrogen Hub is Kooragang Island.
- Site
- Deer Park
- Processes
- Blasting Services & Technical Consulting, Down-the-Hole Service, Total Load Service, Rock on Ground, Rock to Specification, Magazine Administration, Cyclo™ On-Site Oil Recycling, Training & Consulting (Nitrate/Fume/Reactive Ground Risk Reduction)
- Materials
- Sodium Cyanide, Bulk Explosives, Packaged Explosives, Flotation Chemicals, Oil Recycling Emulsions
- Certificates
- ISO 9001
- Founded
- 1874
- Employees
- more than 14,000
- Industries
- Mining (surface/underground, coal, iron ore, gold, copper), Quarrying industry, Construction, Civil infrastructure, Tunneling, Oil and Gas
- 01
Raw material sourcing
- 02
Manufacture of explosives and specialty chemicals
- 03
Development of initiation systems and digital technologies
- 04
Global logistics and distribution
- 05
On-bench services and technical consulting
- 06
Monitoring and data analysis
Products and Processes
Sodium Cyanide
Mining-specialized production for gold and silver leaching as well as other mineral extraction processes.
Bulk Explosives
Broad energy range for precise, efficient rock breakage incl. 4D™ and Fortis™ systems.
Packaged Explosives
Consistent performance where accuracy is critical.
Flotation Chemicals
Copper chemistry for optimizing flotation processes.
Oil Recycling Emulsions
On-site recycling of used oil into safe, sustainable blasting emulsions.
Locations
Deer Park, Victoria
AUHistoric founding site (original explosives production)
- Materials
- Explosives
Kooragang Island (Hunter Valley)
AUProduction site / Hunter Valley Hydrogen Hub
Products and Technologies
Inside the production
Industries
Additional services
Quality
Orica maintains an ISO 9001 certified quality management system in the field of Specialty Mining Chemicals and provides technical data sheets, specifications and safety data sheets.
| Evidence | Kooragang Island (Hunter Valley) |
|---|---|
| ISO 9001 |
History
- 1874
Founded in Deer Park, Victoria, as a supplier of explosives for Victoria's goldfields.
- 1998
After more than a century of explosives and chemicals expertise as well as several acquisitions and renamings, Orica was incorporated.
- 2000er
Strong growth and strategic global acquisitions significantly expand the global network.
- 2026
Expansion of fragmentation intelligence with next-generation FRAGTrack™; acquisition of Danafloat™ (copper chemistry); Final Investment Decision for the Hunter Valley Hydrogen Hub on Kooragang Island.