Archives: Mine surveying

RIEGL USA has relocated to a new state-of-the-art, RIEGL group financed North America headquarters and training center in Winter Garden, Florida. This investment was made possible by the continued success and growth of RIEGL in North America, the excellent and determined teamwork of the RIEGL USA team, and by the strong confidence that the RIEGL[…]

Glencore has entered a global agreement with Tre-Altamira to expand satellite monitoring to over 110 of its dams worldwide making this the largest industry monitoring agreement to date specifically focusing on Tailings Storage Monitoring. It will use InSAR technology which offers a robust and effective monitoring solution to support local geotechnical engineers in risk evaluation[…]

RIEGL now has direct representation throughout the UK and Ireland with its new office in York, England, offering support to its existing RIEGL customers and access to the full range of RIEGL products. RIEGL UK Ltd will have a primary focus on the terrestrial and UAV sectors, while providing initial point of contact for airborne[…]

Wabtec Corp recently announced that its Digital Mine organisation is collaborating with Stone Three to further expand reach and capabilities around optimising mineral processing plants through machine vision based smart sensor technology, consultative data analysis and advanced process control services. Maintaining their shared commitment to customers, the agreement entered between Wabtec and Stone Three will[…]

Capgemini Invent, the Capgemini Group’s digital innovation, consulting and transformation brand, and Eramet’s close collaboration in the past three years has resulted in a successful development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across all of the group’s mining and metallurgical activities. As an example, Eramet mines manganese at the Moanda mine in Gabon, nickel at Société Le[…]

Maptek’s underground laser scanners and software have been helping geology and geotechnical engineering teams save time and monitor safety at Kirkland Lake Gold’s Fosterville mine in Victoria, Australia. At the underground mine, the geology team use two SR3 laser scanners and the PointStudio software for structural mapping and identifying structures. “They primarily focus on scanning[…]

Russian diamond mining major Alrosa has installed an automated wireless monitoring system at the waterworks of the Aikhal Division. The transition to automatic control further it says reduces the risk of emergencies and improves safety of the tailings storage facility at the Processing Plant #14. The automatic wireless monitoring system (AWMS) consists of a network[…]

Victoria, Australia-based Freespace Operations has recently customised its drone technology to address some of the challenges associated with modern mining, resulting in the production of its Callisto Modular Industrial Multirotor. The Callisto is an autonomous modular and multipurpose industrial drone with benefits for the resources sector including increased productivity and worker safety. Freespace Operations Managing[…]

Percepto has announced a strategic investment of $45 million in funding to, it says, launch a transformative solution for remote, fully autonomous, asset monitoring, inspection and compliance of industrial sites. The financing, led by Koch Disruptive Technologies, with contributions from new investors State of Mind Ventures, Atento Capital, Summit Peak Investments and Delek-US, plus existing[…]

Exyn Technologies, a pioneer in autonomous aerial robot systems for complex, GPS-denied industrial environments, has announced Australia company C.R. Kennedy as its first international distributor. C.R Kennedy is one of the largest providers of survey equipment for mining and government needs in Australia, Exyn says. The ExynAero (formerly the Exyn A3R), an autonomous and self-piloting aerial[…]