Archives: Mine surveying

GroundProbe has taken out Queensland’s top award at the Australian Engineering Excellence Awards (AEEA), hosted by industry body Engineers Australia. The awards recognise and celebrate Australia’s top engineering projects and the engineering teams behind them. GroundProbe received this award for its SSR-Omni technology. The SSR-Omni is the world’s leading Slope Stability Radar (SSR) technology for[…]

DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) has announced a partnership with Bleenco GmbH to, they say, develop advanced, scalable, artificial intelligence-powered solutions to better protect workers from operational risks and COVID-19. Alexey Lesin, Digital Practice Leader for DSS, said: “We are seeing industrial companies embrace new safety technologies within their operating environments and, in doing so, they[…]

Mine slope stability monitoring major GroundProbe has released MonitorIQ® 2.0, the latest version of its single-dashboard data aggregation software that gathers and visualises all information from on-site sensors, ensuring users spend less time collecting data and more time analysing data. Through the centralisation of all monitoring data into one dashboard, users are presented with intuitive[…]

Castillo Copper Ltd (ASX:CCZ), a base metal explorer primarily focused on copper across Australia and Zambia, has secured an in-principle agreement with Queensland-based Depco Drilling to appoint them as the lead contractor for the upcoming Mt Oxide drilling campaigns. The agreement is subject to Depco’s lawyers reviewing the agreement along with shareholder approval at a[…]

Emesent has allowed DJI’s M300 drone to fly autonomously underground in what it believes to be a world first for the platform. The flights took place on August 4 at the Round Oak Minerals-owned Mt Colin copper mine in Cloncurry, Queensland, and were followed by similarly successful flights at another underground mine in north Queensland[…]

Bulk ore sorting, sometimes called bulk diversion is on the minds of a number of top tier miners today and at the heart of this is scanning based on different types of sensor technology. Bulk ore sorting is generally the most cost effective technique to upgrade conveyed flow quality as elemental composition  measurement  can  provide[…]

Getac’s V110 fully rugged convertible notebook has helped drone autonomy and mapping developer, Emesent, on its mission to provide mining customers with an all-inclusive solution to map unchartered territories in underground mines, the Taiwan-based company says. Launched in November 2018, Emesent was on the lookout for a device able to withstand extreme mine conditions and[…]

GV Gold, also known as Vysochaishy, one of the fastest growing Russian gold mining companies, has rolled out the Zyfra OpenMine fleet management system (FMS) at its Ugakhan Mine in Russia’s Irkutsk Region in Siberia. The implementation of the project has resulted in a year-on-year ore production volume increase of 11%. Zyfra OpenMine FMS developed by[…]

Velodyne Lidar has announced that Emesent’s newly introduced Autonomy Level 2 (AL2) technology for Hovermap uses Velodyne lidar sensors to provide real-time perception and high-quality, accurate 3D data. Hovermap is a plug-and-play mapping and autonomy payload for industrial drones that enables autonomous flight in areas beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) and without GPS connectivity.[…]

With the COVID-19 pandemic upending economic prospects for 2020 and a global recession in the offing, many companies are looking to cut costs by scaling back investment into innovation, research, and development programs. But global mining-tech company IMDEX says that for it product development is a long game “that will deliver valuable upside no matter[…]