Archives: Mine surveying

Exyn Technologies has announced a partnership with OPTRON, a leading supplier of the latest geospatial technology in the African market, as its first ever distributor in Africa. Together, this partnership will highlight the availability of Exyn’s underground drone products in the African market to bring safer working conditions for the local mining industry, the company[…]

Vale is starting activities with unmanned equipment for the removal of tailings from B3/B4 dam, at Mar Azul iron ore mine, in Nova Lima, and Sul Superior dam, at Gongo Soco mine, in Barão de Cocais – both in Minas Gerais. Actions were assessed and approved by the Public Prosecutor’s technical auditor, in addition to[…]

Canada-based Earth ‘X-ray’ start-up, Ideon Technologies, and Orano Group, one of the world’s top uranium producers, have deployed the world’s first cosmic-ray muon detector for use in industry-standard boreholes. The EUREKA-approved research and development project, which is receiving advisory services and funding support from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program, will[…]

Exyn Technologies, a pioneer in autonomous aerial robot systems for complex, GPS-denied industrial environments, has announced a partnership with NSS (Northern Survey Supply) to distribute Exyn’s underground drone products in the Canadian market through NSS Canada. Canadian underground mining companies looking for ways to increase safety and efficiency by using cutting-edge autonomous robots now have[…]

Two Rivers Platinum, a large underground platinum mine located in Steelpoort, Limpopo, says it has made great strides in setting up a reliable underground WiFi network, providing wireless services to the rock face and full wireless coverage from the face to the tipping area. This marks the first time in 15 years that the organisation[…]

Rocscience and IDS GeoRadar first joined hands in 2018 when deformation monitoring data from IDS’s monitoring radars were integrated into Rocscience’s popular 3D software – Slide3 and RS3. This integration was the first of its kind in the industry and paved the way for radar data to support numerical modeling. And in 2019, RS3 and[…]

Working directly with major Russian telecomms companies, Russia’s leading mining operators are some of the progressive worldwide in implementing private LTE wireless network capabilities to facilitate greater automation and production efficiency. The latest to roll out private LTE is gold mining major Polyus. The company exclusively told IM that it is in the process of[…]

GroundProbe says it has launched the industry’s most advanced doppler radar for reactive geohazard monitoring, the RGR-Velox. RGR-Velox (Reactive Geohazard Radar) is a military-precision reactive monitoring and alarming system for tailings dam breaches, large slope failures, landslides and avalanches. It detects, tracks and alarms on moving geohazards in real time, keeping people, assets and communities[…]

Orbital Sidekick (OSK) has announced the upcoming launch of its newest and most powerful hyperspectral imaging satellite, Aurora, which is set to expand contracts and pilot program opportunities for, among other things, sustainable mining practices. Aurora leverages OSK’s previous experience collecting and analysing hyperspectral data to provide action-oriented insights, with a broad focus on sustainability,[…]

OZ Minerals says it is digitising tailings dam inspection at its Prominent Hill copper-gold mining operation in northern South Australia. Three camera units have been installed at the Tailings Storage Facility (TSF) as part of a three-month trial, to allow its operators to remotely inspect the TSF, fill in their daily inspection log sheet and[…]