Archives: Mine surveying

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.[…]

Mines everywhere have been trying to sweat their assets – getting the most out of existing fleets. But a big part of this is also minimising unplanned maintenance related downtime. And here there are still wins to be made with new innovations – one of these which is just being commercially launched is the DustGuard™[…]

Propeller Aero, the drone data visualisation and analytics platform, and DJI, a leader in civilian drones and aerial imaging technology, have expanded their partnership to include compatibility of Propeller’s site surveying and 3D mapping software with DJI’s Matrice 300 RTK drone (M300) and Zenmuse P1 sensor (P1). Propeller’s data processing platform is, the company says,[…]

In open pit mining operations, accidents, which are dump-point related, have the potential to be catastrophic in terms of casualties, damage to equipment and loss of productivity. This implies that the compliance of safety berms, with the required height standards, has become imperative to safeguard personnel and equipment. Berm monitoring has thus become a safety[…]

Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions, together with Newtrax Technologies, is introducing the next generation of the OptiMine® solution, which combines the Newtrax digitalisation offering with the existing Sandvik suite of digital process optimisation tools as one integrated OptiMine® product. Sandvik describes OptiMine® as “the most comprehensive OEM-agnostic digitalisation solution for underground hard rock mines with[…]