7.4.8.2Vertical
Drilling & Blasting Services
Companies providing blast hole drilling and explosive detonation.
Market snapshot
These figures describe Mining Equipment & Services (7.4.8), the segment that Drilling & Blasting Services sits within — not Drilling & Blasting Services on its own.
- Market size
- ~$3B
- Growth
- ~5.3%CAGR (2017–22, nominal)
- Companies
- ~440
FragmentationFragmentedEstimate
U.S. Census Bureau 2022 CBP/Economic Census, NAICS 213114 (support for metal mining) + 213115 (support for nonmetallic minerals); mining-equipment manufacturing (333131) is profiled under Heavy Equipment.
Business model & economics
Revenue model
Contract mining services and mine development
Key economics
- Recurring revenue
- Moderate
- EBITDA margin
- Service- and utilization-driven
- Capex intensity
- Moderate
recurring contract-service relationships
Characteristics
- Drilling, blasting, and mine-development services.
- Tracks mining activity and commodity cycles.
- Critical-minerals build-out a growth driver.
M&A deal context
Deal activityModerate
Who’s acquiring
- Mining-services platforms
- PE-backed consolidators
- Mining strategics
What’s driving deals
- Consolidation of mining-services contractors.
- Critical-minerals and mine-development demand.
- Automation and efficiency services.
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