Archives: Mine surveying

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[…]

Hawk Measurement Systems has released new laser level transmitters that, the company says, are ideal for level, distance and position measurement of solid and liquid surfaces. The OptioLaser L100 (pictured) and L200 Laser Level Transmitters use a laser that is uniquely different due to the very narrow beam that can measure long and short distances[…]

NSS Canada has announced a new partnership with NORCAT and the addition of a new NSS Canada office in the NORCAT Underground Centre. NSS Canada (Northern Survey Supply) is an Authorised Distributor of Leica Geosystems and and Authorised Agent of the Hexagon Mining Portfolio, specialising in engineering measurement systems and mine survey solutions. Its Miner[…]

The new UX-1Neo robot is designed to perform underwater mine and other site surveying missions in the EU and worldwide, and collect valuable geoscientific and spatial data from these sites. The technology developers of the UNEXUP project supported by EIT RawMaterials took onboard the operational limitations found in the former UX-1 robot, built during the[…]