Archives: Mine surveying

Kespry and DJI are pooling resources to offer the DJI Mavic 2 Pro drone as part of the Kespry stockpile measurement solution for mining and aggregates companies. “This solution delivers the unique Kespry autonomous flight and aerial intelligence experience for stockpile measurement using a DJI drone,” according to Kespry. “Adding this affordable, powerful and portable[…]

An important Chinese mining sector delegation visiting South Africa was this week able to gain valuable insights from specialist engineers and scientists from SRK Consulting (SA), focusing on the range of factors that affect mineral resource and mineral reserve reporting and valuation. The delegation comprised members of the Mineral Resources and Reserves Evaluation Centre (MRREC)[…]

Loadscan has announced the launch of its conveyor volume scanner (CVS) – a tool to tell mining users how much material is moving across a conveyor belt. “Like the successful load volume scanner before it, the newly released Loadscan CVS system is set apart by its uniquely clever software and friendly web-based user interface. Unlike[…]

Geobrugg has developed together with international experts an attenuator protection solution which can be efficiently dimensioned. This innovative rockfall protection is particularly low maintenance. The dimensioning concept was presented to experts in British Columbia/Canada at the end of August 2018. Geobrugg has installed attenuator systems in North America for years. What was missing up until[…]

According to a report by Chile-based Business News Americas, Chilean development agency Corfo has opened a national centre for piloting mining technologies, dubbed CNP. The report by the news agency’s Tania Herrera says the centre aims to provide the mining industry, specifically service providers, with high specialisation in validation of technologies, access to industrial-scale testing[…]

Australia-based Qteq and Wireline Services Group (WSG) have agreed to join forces as they look to build a bigger domestic and overseas base in the georesources sector. The merger, one of five corporate M&A transactions by Qteq in 2018, alone, signals an influx of innovative borehole measurement sensors and systems backed by two of the[…]

BHP was an early adopter of drones across its mine sites, employing the aerial technology across the group for post-blasting clearance, traffic monitoring, building inspections and operation surveillance. Now, the major diversified miner is looking to drones to improve safety and provide efficiency gains at its ocean freight operations. While still in the trial phase,[…]

Terra Drone, a leading global commercial drone technology company, has acquired a significant stake in Inkonova AB, a Swedish startup developing aerial robotics for underground mining. The deal, comprised of a cash injection, will see changes to the management team, as well as technical, business development, and operational collaborations, Inkonova said. Terra Drone’s UAV inspection,[…]

Rubicon Minerals Corp reports on its test trial mining, bulk sample processing and exploration activities at the Phoenix gold project. The test trial mining and bulk sample processing program have been completed. Rubicon has processed more than 35,000 t of mineralized bulk sample material extracted from three test stopes and additional mineralized material from smaller[…]

CSIRO’s Data61, the technology arm of Australia’s national science agency, is competing in the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Subterranean (or SubT) Challenge, which aims to explore new approaches to rapidly map, navigate, and search underground environments. Data61’s Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group, one of the leading robotics and autonomous systems research groups[…]