Archives: Mine surveying

Sagar Chandra, VP of Business Development – Latin America and Todd Rigby, Director of Sales, at private wireless mesh network technology company Rajant Corporation recently shared with IM their thoughts on how slope stability monitoring is increasing both safety and productivity. “Slope failure in open-cut mines can have devastating effects, especially when they occur without[…]

Robots from all over the world will compete to find objects in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Systems Competition, being held August 15-22 in mining tunnels under Pittsburgh. Among them will be a team led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, that features wheeled rovers, drones and climbing robots that can rise on pinball-flipper-shaped[…]

SEMAFO Inc reports that there has been a pit wall failure at Mana in the Wona pit. No mining was underway in the area, and no-one was injured. A pit wall failure occurred on Friday August 2, and the team has been “working diligently on assessing the impact.” The incident took place in the northern[…]

GroundProbe has launched a dedicated monitoring centre in Santiago, Chile, to, it says, provide 24/7 real-time radar and laser monitoring services for tailings dams and mines throughout North and South America. The centre connects remote sites with industry experts in three languages, according to GroundProbe, with the facility monitoring live slope stability data and reacting[…]

LASE, a leader in laser-based sensor and measurement applications, has opened a new office in Perth, Western Australia, as it looks to support its growing base of Australia customers in mining and other industries. Lars Mohr, who has previously worked as Sales Manager at the LASE branch office in Bremen, Germany, has been appointed General[…]

Kespry and DroneBase have announced a partnership that, they say, enables insurance, mining, and aggregates enterprises across North America to expand aerial analytics implementation across their work sites. Kespry’s customers will now be able to leverage DroneBase’s service offering to manage their Kespry deployments as part of Kespry’s new Bring Your Own Drone (BYOD) program,[…]

Hawk Measurement America and FLO-CORP have agreed to merge in a deal that will bring together leading manufacturers and suppliers of advanced process instrumentation and cloud-based monitoring technology. The combined entity is now a complete flow, level, and asset monitoring solutions provider, the companies said. Over the past three decades, both companies have worked to[…]

Delair, a supplier of commercial drone solutions to markets including mining, has announced an agreement with Geoforma SA de CV, a provider of UAV sales and support to commercial surveyors in Mexico. As part of the agreement, Geoforma will operate Delair’s first service centres on the ground in Latin America, expanding the company’s international network[…]

Reutech Mining says it has launched the fastest scanning and most sophisticated slope monitoring radar in the industry, the MSRIV Esprit. “The exceptional high scan speed ensures early detection of developing slope failures at mines, and enables accurate movement detections of fast-moving slopes rapidly changing atmospheric conditions,” Reutech said. Esprit uses the latest core radar[…]

Japan-based Terra Drone has continued with its global expansion, having invested in a leading UAV company in Kazakhstan, KazUAV. With this investment, KazUAV joins Terra Drone’s network of over 25 group companies and technology partners committed to providing cutting-edge yet cost-effective drone services across the globe, the leading drone solution said. Terra Drone said: “Established[…]