Archives: Mine surveying

The picture shows Teck using Skycatch at its Line Creek Operations. The Skycatch High Precision Package (HPP) has been selected by Teck Resources, Canada’s largest diversified resource company, for aerial drone surveying at a number of its mining operations. “Customers like Teck are setting new standards in the mining industry by implementing tools that support[…]

Terra Drone South Africa has shown off its surveying expertise to Sibanye-Stillwater, with one of its drones successfully navigating a 3m x 3 m tunnel at one of the gold and PGM miner’s underground assets. A simultaneous localisation and mapping-equipped drone was able to realise “stable automatic navigation” under a “non-GPS environment,” Terra Drone said.[…]

Thanks to a new full HD 360° panoramic camera, Italy’s Gexcel says its HERON® system has become a powerful tool for geospatial data mining: “to digitally document, collect and geo-reference large datasets and information inside indoor environments has never been so easy, thanks to the perfect integration with OrbitGT packages too.” In mining it can[…]

In a global industry first, MineWare’s Pegasys Dragline Monitor has extended its capability to support underwater digging. Enhanced with MineWare’s new Machine Terrain Mapping (MTM) Technology module, Pegasys can now help miners locate and recover material up to 100 ft below water. MineWare North America Regional Vice President Greg Ladewig said this is a significant[…]

Airobotics has received a Certificate of Waiver (CoW) from the US Federal Aviation Administration that will allow it to operate from the company’s remote operations centre in Scottsdale, Arizona. It has become the first company in the US to receive a CoW that combines three elements – flying beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) for[…]

Terra Drone has continued its acquisition drive with the purchase of a majority stake in leading European drone service provider Skeye. With this acquisition, Terra Drone has become one of the largest drone service companies with more than 250 employees and a presence in all continents. As part of the acquisition, Skeye will become the[…]

Pioneer Aerial Surveys Ltd, the wholly owned subsidiary of Global UAV Technologies Ltd, a diversified and vertically integrated drone technology company, has secured a UAV-MAG™ survey contract in Brazil with the potential for significant survey expansion. This survey marks the first services contract in Brazil for Pioneer Aerial and with this new contract Pioneer Aerial[…]

Orlaco, the global supplier of camera-monitor vision solutions for mines has come up with a solution where its RadarEye camera technology can integrate with any monitor in the machine: “If workplace safety is an important issue for you, your fleet will no doubt be equipped with camera monitor systems. You can now make your machines[…]

Seequent, a world leader in visual data science, has signed an agreement to acquire Geosoft, a Canadian geoscience software company headquartered in Toronto with offices around the world.  The acquisition brings together Seequent’s Leapfrog 3D geological modelling software suite with Geosoft’s subsurface geoscience and exploration data-driven technology – to create, Seequent says, “an unparalleled subsurface[…]

Ivanhoe Mines’ flagship Kamoa-Kakula project is situated 25 km west of the provincial capital Kolwezi, in the Lualaba Province of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It has been independently ranked as the world’s largest undeveloped, high-grade copper discovery, with the Kamoa copper deposit discovered in the 2008, followed by the high-grade Kakula deposit in 2015.[…]