Archives: Mine surveying

Exyn Technologies has announced a successful $35 million Series B round of funding that will, it says, help it grow and diversify its sales, marketing and product teams to support continued worldwide expansion and movement into new industries and applications. The lead investor, Reliance Industries, is a multinational corporation and India’s largest company headquartered in[…]

Subsoil Technologies recently delivered a flagship underground communication network from Australia-based Northern Lights Technologies’ (NLT) to gold miner Al Masane Al Kobra Mining Company (AMAK Mining) in Saudi Arabia. The solution delivered to AMAK Mining includes a 1 Gbps WiFi network, real time positioning system for people and equipment with evacuation system and rugged mine[…]

At the Quellaveco copper mine in Peru, a modern geotechnical monitoring system for slopes and material deposits has been implemented by Anglo American, which uses four radars, analysis of satellite images, and a robotic station that monitors nearly 200 geolocation devices (prisms) in the field. Thanks to this technology, potential instability in different structures can[…]

IDS GeoRadar, part of Hexagon, has announced it is extending the IQMaps software application to a wider range of ground penetrating radar (GPR) systems. IQMaps is IDS GeoRadar’s post-processing software application for advanced GPR data analysis, enabling fast interfacing between the user and GPR data, it says. IQMaps is now available for: IDS GeoRadar Opera[…]

The Mandela Mining Precinct, the Minerals Council South Africa, and champion mines Sibanye-Stillwater and Impala Platinum, have congratulated Reutech Mining as the winner of the Rock Hazard Identification and Safe Removal Innovation Challenge. At the beginning of 2022, the Minerals Council South Africa and the Mandela Mining Precinct, in collaboration with Sibanye-Stillwater and Impala Platinum,[…]

Nokia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with leading network measurement technology provider, Rohde & Schwarz, to embed QualiPoc 4.9G/LTE and 5G network measurement capabilities into the Nokia Drone Networks platform. This first software-embedded solution of its kind it says will expand the use cases for drones to provide communication service providers (CPS), private wireless[…]

On November 7, two LiDAR heavyweights in mining – Ouster and Velodyne – announced a proposed “merger of equals.” Ouster is a leading provider of high-resolution digital LiDAR, counting leading mining equipment OEMs like Sandvik and Liebherr plus Chinese AHS leaders WAYTOUS and TAGE Idriver among its customers. Velodyne is a leading global player in[…]

Devico is the inventor and leading worldwide provider of directional core drilling (DCD), with its DeviDrill steerable wireline core barrel. In addition to directional drilling technology it also produces state-of-the-art borehole surveying products for downhole navigation, core orientation, drill rig alignment and QA/QC data management. After extensive development and a thorough trial period Devico has[…]

Drone-based data provider, Delta Drone International Limited, has announced a new product addition to its data solutions business model via its partnership and distribution agreement with AirZaar Inc, a corporation doing business as US-based, mining-focused software provider Strayos. The arrangement will allow DLT to distribute software licences across Africa and Australia, either directly or via[…]

Trimble and Exyn Technologies have announced a strategic collaboration to explore the use of autonomous construction surveying technology through integrating Boston Dynamic’s SpotⓇ robot, the ExynPak™ powered by ExynAI™ and the Trimble® X7 total station. This solution will, the companies say, enable fully autonomous missions inside complex and dynamic construction environments, which can result in[…]