Archives: Mine surveying

Hexagon’s Mining division has announced a re-organisation of its product portfolio, marking a new era for the company and its customers. Specifically designed to simplify how customers evaluate solutions across the lifecycle of mines, the new portfolio consolidates numerous products into streamlined solution packages and introduces a new naming convention. Additional changes that enhance the[…]

Acoustic Zoom has closed a $1 million investment from Goldcorp Inc, one of the world’s leading gold producers. Acoustic Zoom, an advanced geophysics company specialising in innovative seismic solutions, was awarded the top prize at #DisruptMining 2018, an innovation accelerator designed to encourage new technologies and ideas to solve some of the biggest challenges in[…]

Hexagon’s MS60 multistation integrates laser scanning, GNSS, and imaging into the tried-and-true platform of a total station. This powerful new instrument was recently used to scan the upper level of the University of Arizona’s San Xavier underground mine. The demonstration quickly revealed the value of integrating a laser scanner into a proven survey instrument. The[…]

Diamond mining giant ALROSA at its division Severalmaz has tested unmanned aerial vehicles – a quadcopter and an airplane – for mine surveying of land objects of Lomonosov Mining and Processing Division. Preliminary estimates show that the use of unmanned technologies provides high survey accuracy, increases the speed and safety of work. Geoscan 401 Geodesy[…]

Exciting news ahead for the UNEXMIN project: the first UX-1 robot prototype has been shipped to Finland – in time for the preparations of the first UNEXMIN pilot trial in Kaatiala, Finland. After the extensive preparations in the last months, the first UX-1 prototype – UX-1a – has been sent to Finland, where the UNEXMIN[…]

The winners of Australia’s Good Design Awards, the highest honour for design innovation in Australia, were announced at the Sydney Opera House on May 17 at the 60th Annual Good Design Awards Ceremony. GroundProbe’s Geotech Monitoring Station (GMS) received the prestigious Good Design Award Best in Class in the Product Design category in recognition for[…]

EPC-UK, a market leader in the manufacture, storage and distribution of commercial explosives, will be “bringing the blast to life” at this year’s Hillhead, thanks to the latest Augmented Reality technology. A combination of Virtual Reality and the real world, Augmented Reality (AR) takes the form of live video imagery, which is enhanced with computer[…]

Qteq clients will soon have access to a series of new, innovative measurement sensors and systems to provide borehole data, after the business agreed to acquire Perth-based subsurface data logging company Surtech Systems Pty Ltd. Qteq also agreed to acquire Directional & Measurement Whilst Drilling (MWD) company WellServ Pty Ltd, in a cash and scrip[…]

The Turnbull Government is investing in the global positioning system (GPS) technology that will create jobs and support Australian industry. Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator the Hon Matt Canavan, said the Government is investing over A$260 million to develop the satellite technology. “We rely on satellite and GPS technology for just about every[…]

Modular Mining Systems, a global leader in the delivery of real-time computer-based mine management solutions for surface and underground mining operations, has made the commercial release of its MM2 High-Precision Global Navigation Satellite System (HP-GNSS) receiver. The MM2 HP-GNSS receiver is the latest addition to Modular’s High-Precision machine guidance platform, and is used to determine[…]