Archives: Mine surveying

Flight Safety Foundation’s Basic Aviation Risk Standard (BARS) Program, working in collaboration with some of the world’s largest mining and resource companies, has developed the Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) Audit and Registration Program to, it says, provide the industry with a more efficient means of monitoring, assessing, and analysing risks associated with RPAS. With[…]

In a joint development between RIEGL and DMT, the RIEGL VZ-400i and VZ-2000i 3D terrestrial laser scanners are now being integrated into the DMT SAFEGUARD monitoring platform to, RIEGL says, offer innovative and tailored monitoring solutions for the mining and infrastructure industries. The open architecture of the RIEGL VZ-400i and the RIEGL VZ-2000i 3D Terrestrial[…]

Mining major Teck Resources says its RACE21™ mining innovation team has supported an on-the-ground team in designing a new system to load railcars safely, efficiently and accurately, while increasing the speed of train loading and maximising the available capacity of railcars. While observing railcars loading steelmaking coal at Teck-owned Fording River Operations, Automation Specialist and[…]

Technology systems integrator and operational technology contractor, Ramjack Technology Solutions (RAMJACK), announced today its acquisition of Swedish underground robotics innovator, Inkonova AB. RAMJACK commented: “This move is the latest step in RAMJACK’s aggressive buildout of their technology stack focusing on safety, sustainability and productivity within the mining sector – a strategy that already includes partnerships[…]

GroundProbe, a member of the Orica Group, recently celebrated the relocation of their office, facilities and Geotechnical Support Service (GSS) centre in Balikpapan, Indonesia, to better serve their growing Asiancustomer base. The centre, originally opened in 2012, will provide 24/7 real-time remote radar and laser monitoring services for mine slopes and tailings dams, globally. “Our[…]

With the implementation of the Integrated Operations Centre (CIO), the Quellaveco copper mine in Peru will become the first Anglo American operation in the world that has been 100% digital since its inception. Anglo American Peru comments: “Thus, while other mines adapt their processes to technology, a project conceived to put data at the service[…]

An update to Maptek’s SR3 MkII underground scanner as well as a new and improved underground light is helping reduce scanning tasks by more than half, according to the company. A recent trial at an underground civil site in Australia showed the combination of enhanced light and upgraded firmware allows for improved quality scan outputs[…]

The National Mineral Development Corporation Ltd (NMDC), India’s largest iron ore producer and a CPSE under the Ministry of Steel, has signed an MoU with IIT Kharagpur for drone-based mineral exploration. NMDC has been exploring for minerals for six decades including copper, phosphate rock, limestone, magnesite, diamond, tungsten and mineral sands amongst others from reconnaissance G4[…]

Exyn Technologies has selected Easy Aerial, a leading provider of autonomous drone-in-a-box solutions, to be one of its core airframe partners for the ExynAero™ product line. This collaboration not only highlights Exyn’s ongoing efforts in fostering strategic partnerships but also marks the first fully-integrated autonomous LiDAR drone made in the US powered by Autonomy Level[…]

Maptek in its most recent Forge newsletter outlined how optimised scheduling can be combined with full life cycle analysis to quantify and reduce the environmental impacts of planned mines and monitor those in production. Maptek and Minviro have combined their technologies to enable mining companies to develop multiple optimised material movement scenarios, each of which[…]