Archives: Mine surveying

Oxbotica and Navtech have launched Terran360, which they say is the world’s first all-weather radar localisation solution for industrial autonomous vehicles, with the pioneering technology typically accurate to <10 cm on any vehicle, in any environment. “Combining Navtech’s patented FMCW radar sensor and Oxbotica’s autonomy software platform, Terran360 is an entirely new offering to the[…]

Redpath Canada Ltd and SafeSight Exploration Inc are the recipients of the Ontario Mine Contractors Safety Association’s (OMCSA) Safety Innovation Award for 2020. The announcement was made at a virtual meeting in April 2021. The Award recognises great innovations in mining that directly impact safety. The Redpath and SafeSight collaboration has developed the SafeSight MRC[…]

Bentley Systems, Inc has announced its acquisitions of sensemetrics (agreement executed) and Vista Data Vision (closed), leading providers of software for Internet of Things (IoT) applications used extensively in infrastructure and mining. sensemetrics and Vista Data Vision will expand the scope of the Bentley iTwin platform to add intrinsic IoT capabilities for infrastructure digital twins[…]

Exyn Technologies, a pioneer in autonomous aerial robot systems for complex, GPS-denied industrial environments including underground mines, has announced it has achieved the highest documented level of aerial autonomy. At Level 4A Autonomy, Exyn’s drones powered by ExynAI are now capable of free-flight exploration of complex spaces, with complete determination of flight path—at 2+ m/second[…]

Devico AS, the Norwegian leader in directional core drilling innovations and manufacturer of leading drill hole positioning instruments, is officially releasing its latest innovation, DeviCloud, on May 3. DeviCloud is a “complete survey data management system, connecting drillers, geologists, and engineers through a fast, secure, and uncomplicated cloud-based platform. The onsite processing, transfer and management[…]

Australian mid-tier gold mining company Evolution owns and operates four mines in Australia and one in Ontario, Canada. Located 600 km east of Perth, the Mungari underground operation produces more than 125,000 oz of gold a year. Mungari’s gold mineralisation occurs in a zone 70 m wide by 400 m long (230 by 1,300 ft),[…]

Machine learning combined with cloud computing is destined to free up the geological supply chain to allow businesses to better leverage a key asset – their geological model. April 2021 sees the market release of DomainMCF, a platform that Maptek says will ‘put the geology back into geologists.’ Geologist and Project Lead Steve Sullivan said[…]

Digital Twin Consortium® and Global Mining Guidelines Group have entered into a liaison agreement “to help solve mining industry challenges by enabling the development and adoption of digital twin technologies.” Both consortia have agreed to the following: Identifying and sharing use cases and applications of digital twins in mining Identifying and sharing best practices across[…]

A collaboration between STRYDE, a seismic technology provider, and Explor, a geophysical technology and data acquisition company, has indicated seismic imaging surveys in mountainous terrain could become much less onerous in the future. As STRYDE explains, mountains present a significant challenge for any sector seeking to map the subsurface to determine the abundance of resources,[…]

Two of the leading players in the monitoring industry, Geopraevent and IDS GeoRadar, both Hexagon companies, have introduced SLYX Slow Movement Analysis, a solution that they say goes beyond standard analysis of tailing dams. It incorporates the new Guardian algorithm developed in cooperation with Geopraevent, which “plays an important role for early precursors of potentially[…]