Reducing the impact and risks of tailings dam failures is a concern for both mining companies and communities around the world. Significant tragedies in recent years have increased the priority and urgency to comprehensively manage these challenges. The monitoring aspect of tailings dams is an important component of a complete solution for each tailings dam. […]
READ MOREFailures in Open-Pit Mines and Uncertainty when Predicting Collapses
GroundProbe’s Group Geotechnical Sales Specialist, Albert Cabrejo With the introduction of the Slope Stability Radar (SSR) by GroundProbe in 2001, the mining industry acquired the ability to gather monitoring data of collapses in real-time. The Inverse Velocity (IV) Method, by Professor Fukuzono has been used in the mining industry along with slope monitoring radars for […]
READ MOREState of the Art Monitoring Techniques for Samarco Tailings Dams
GroundProbe’s Chief Operating Officer, David Noon As the complexity of mining projects increase, good tailings dam management becomes critical, along with an increasing global focus on safe and sustainable development. Geotechnical stability is a key consideration in many tailings dam failures. By monitoring and instrumentising tailings dams we can develop a better understanding of what […]
READ MOREGround-Breaking News – Growth Across Markets and Geographies
As leaders in real-time, geotechnical monitoring of slopes and walls in both open-cut and underground mines, we at GroundProbe have been working in the global mining industry for over 17 years. Over time, we have developed an expert understanding of these environments and their infrastructure – like tailings dams – and the unique challenges they […]
READ MOREGroundProbe Partners with Samarco to Ensure Safety Critical Slope Monitoring of Tailings Dams
GroundProbe is proud to be announced as the sole provider of radar monitoring solutions at Samarco Mineração S.A. Five Slope Stability Radars will now be in full operation to detect any future movement and instability of Santarém and Germano dams, with GroundProbe supplying two safety-critical, mobile radar systems (SSR-XT) and three long-range, fixed-deployment radar systems […]
READ MORERisk Reduction Strategy Incorporates Tailings Dam Monitoring at Samarco Mine
RISK REDUCTION STRATEGY INCORPORATES TAILINGS DAM MONITORING AT SAMARCO MINE Tailings storage facilities or dams can represent a significant environmental and financial liability for mining operations as a breach or failure of a dam can have catastrophic physical, social and economic impacts. Following a tailings dam failure in November 2015, the Samarco Mineração S.A owned […]
READ MOREGroundProbe Provides Safety-Critical Assistance to Samarco Following Recent Events
Within hours of recent events at Samarco, the geotechnical engineers from the mine reached out to GroundProbe requesting monitoring assistance. GroundProbe immediately arranged the deployment of two SSR-XT radars to provide a complete risk reduction strategy for the mine to assess further risks and hazards. The flexible scan angle area of the radars was put […]
READ MOREGroundBreaking News – December 2014
Customer service is at the heart of everything we do. This is why the last few months have been an exciting period for our Global Operations team, who have implemented our industry’s first global support centre; follow-the-sun. At any time, day or night, one of our offices around the world will be open. When you […]
READ MORESSR Technology to Optimise Safety and Recovery at Nchanga Mine
NCHANGA OPEN PIT (NOP) USES SSR TECHNOLOGY TO OPTIMISE SAFETY AND RECOVERY The NOP division of Konkola Copper Mines Plc (KCM) has been mining copper ore at their Chingola operation for almost 50 years. During that time the pit operations have been disrupted a number of times in response to failures of both high and […]
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