Archives: Mine surveying

One of the pioneers in Virtual Reality solutions for augmented mine tours for anaylsts, executives and other parties is UK-based Reality Check, which made a big step forward recently when it joined the London Stock Exchange Issuer Services Marketplace as their trusted platform for industrial assets tours. David van Eeghen, Realith Check VP Planning &[…]

Personal protective equipment, automated or remote-controlled machinery, and safety instructions all help to avoid accidents underground. Nevertheless, there are still a lot of dangerous situations in mining, in which the risk to humans is too high. By using modern technologies, ie robotics, many believe that this situation can and should be overcome. The interdisciplinary research[…]

At the APCOM 2019 conference this week in Wroclaw, Poland, Dr Herman Hamersma from the University of Pretoria’s Vehicle Dynamics Group outlined how recent changes in Chapter 8 of the Mine Health and Safety Act in South Africa require employers at any mine to take reasonably practicable measures to ensure that persons (including pedestrians and[…]

Mine Vision Systems and Peck Tech Consulting have announced the intent to combine their products, services and expertise to deliver, they say, “industry leading, innovative 3D mobile mapping solutions for GPS-denied environments.” MVS is an industry funded spin-off from Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center with a portfolio of patented and proprietary solutions for[…]

Hexagon AB has announced the launch of IDS GeoRadar RockSpot, a radar system that fills a gap in the monitoring of natural and engineered slopes. The system detects, tracks, and analyses the slightest movements from rockfalls, avalanches, and other fast-moving landslide debris flow, according to the company. “RockSpot creates real-time alerts that can be connected[…]

Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Minas Gerais State Government in Brazil to explore the potential of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for monitoring the integrity of mine tailings dams in the region. The MoU provides a framework for cooperation between Inmarsat and the[…]

Kespry, the drone-based aerial intelligence solution provider, has announced its new BYOD (Bring Your Own Drone) program. It includes a new platform pricing model designed to meet the expanding enterprise aerial intelligence requirements of multi-site mining companies. Kespry now offers a single fee for its platform, including unlimited access to industry-leading, vertically-integrated applications, the Kespry[…]

Global mining software development company Deswik has released an innovative product designed to handle large amounts of scanned survey point data and automate the process of creating valid solids from it. Deswik Product Manager – Survey Stephen Rowles says the new Deswik.AdvSurvey module, which was rolled out in April, has been designed to reflect the[…]

Delair and its regional reseller Frontier Precision have signed an agreement with Wood that will see the engineering and project service company adopt the Delair UX11 high-performance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for its work in site planning and asset management in mining and quarry projects in the western US. Delair said Wood was initially deploying[…]

METS-focused private equity group, Jolimont, has made another investment in the sector, this time putting €4 million ($4.5 million) into RWTH Aachen University spinoff indurad. Indurad calls itself the global leader in radar-based automation and productivity solutions for mine sites, train loadouts, stockyard equipment and shiploading facilities. Its patented 2D and 3D radar systems are[…]