Archives: Mine surveying

GroundProbe says it is immensely proud to be celebrating 20 years of operation and 20 years of keeping people and communities safe. Over the last two decades, the company has expanded from a home-grown start-up to become a global innovation powerhouse and the trusted partner of companies around the world, it said. GroundProbe calls itself[…]

Delta Drone International is set to enter the Niger market for the first time after being contracted by uranium explorer and developer, GoviEx Uranium, to perform a virtual 3D model baseline survey for GoviEx’s Madaouela project. The baseline survey will be one of the first times Delta Drone International uses its advanced surveying and data[…]

Timegate and Sandvik Mining and Construction Oy have performed the world’s first trials of measuring mineralogy of high-speed drill cuttings by using Timegated® Raman spectroscopy. The experiment is part of the H2020 GoldenEye project and was carried out last week in Sandvik’s Test Mine in Tampere, Finland. In total, 18 different samples from six mines[…]

Perth, Western Australia-based robotics company Nexxis has been awarded a A$675,000 ($491,420) Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre (AMGC) Commercialisation Fund grant to assist its efforts commercialising its Magneto technology. In August, Nexxis unveiled the world’s first fully design-approved EX-rated robotic camera inspection device – Magneto-EX. The spider-like device with its magnetic feet is the first developed[…]

The European Union Horizon 2020 project NEXT, which stands for New Exploration Technologies was created to develop new geomodels, novel sensitive exploration technologies and data analysis methods which together are fast, cost-effective, environmentally safe and, potentially more acceptable to local actors and communities. The project has now concluded: “NEXT project has been a success and[…]

Hexagon Mining and Piklema LLC have signed an agreement to work together to provide digital technologies to mines in the Russian region. This cooperation brings the combination of Hexagon’s products alongside the expertise and capabilities of Piklema. The two companies says they hope to achieve the next level of value creation for mining companies due[…]

Making geological modelling simple is the premise of Vulcan GeologyCore, just released by technology developer Maptek. Vulcan GeologyCore “answers the need for an intuitive geological modelling workflow that handles automatic validation and chart creation, providing geologists with greater confidence around their domain and modelling decisions.” The dynamic interface and streamlined workflow make it easy to[…]

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions and Exyn Technologies have furthered their strategic partnership looking at new horizons of mine autonomy with the introduction of the Sandvik Exyn inspection concept. An autonomous mapping solution that can co-operate with autonomous machines without stopping production, according to Jussi Puura, Research and Technology Development, Digitalization Lead at Sandvik Mining[…]

San Francisco-based Skycatch has been making waves in the drone space with a range of mapping solutions tailored for mining applications but, according to Chief Technology Officer, David Chen, it thinks of itself as a “software-first company”. He explained to IM: “We are really a computer vision company, and we focus on building not only[…]

Hexagon AB has announced the introduction of the Leica BLK ARC and the Leica BLK2FLY, extending its BLK series of autonomous reality capture solutions. The Leica BLK ARC is a laser scanning sensor purposely built to improve the autonomous navigation of robots and other carrier platforms to deliver fully autonomous mobile laser scanning, Hexagon explains.[…]