OVERVIEW The Kennecott Copper Mine (Bingham Canyon) is 25 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The mine, in production since 1903, is one of the world’s largest and deepest open-pit mines and employs over 2000 people. Owned by the Rio Tinto Group, it has produced more copper than any other mine in history. […]
READ MOREMonitoring and Measuring Squeezing Ground Conditions at Gosowong Gold Operation
MONITORING WEAK ROCKMASS OVERVIEW The Gosowong Gold Operation is located on Halmahera Island, about 2,450 kilometres northeast of the national capital, Jakarta. It is an epithermal gold deposit with additional occurrences of silver. The mine uses a combination of cut-and-fill and long hole open stoping (LHOS) mining methods. Currently, PT. Nusa Halmahera Minerals operates two […]
READ MOREGroundProbe Announced as Queensland’s Top Engineering Excellence Award Winner
GroundProbe is celebrating after taking out Queensland’s top award at the Australian Engineering Excellence Awards (AEEA), hosted by peak industry body Engineers Australia. The awards recognise and celebrate Australia’s top engineering projects and the engineering teams behind them. GroundProbe received this award for its cutting-edge SSR-Omni technology. The SSR-Omni is the world’s leading Slope Stability […]
READ MOREHow our Slope Stability Radar (SSR) Agilis is Improving Operational Safety
The SSR-Agilis is a complete safety-critical system designed to keep operations ahead of geotechnical risks. It is equipped with advanced computing design, delivering data capture, processing and alarming capabilities all in one place, at the radar. The SSR-Agilis scanning and processing data in real-time. The system’s in-built processing provides instant visualisation of accurate real-time […]
READ MORESSR-Agilis: Self-Functioning and Powerfully Precise
The SSR-Agilis is a standalone monitoring system that is independently powered and networked. The system is designed to provide users with ultimate flexibility and can be integrated to the site comms or used independently. The deploying of the SSR-Agilis Technologically advanced, it requires no Wi-Fi, site communications or mine power to conduct tactical, safety-critical monitoring. […]
READ MOREGroundProbe extends Fleet with new Tactical, Vehicle-Mounted Monitoring Solution
GroundProbe has extended its comprehensive Slope Stability Radar (SSR) product offering with the release of the SSR-Agilis. Mounted on a vehicle, the SSR-Agilis is designed to be operational in minutes in active areas of mine sites, ensuring the safety of work crews working under high-risk slopes. It fills a need in the tactical monitoring space. […]
READ MOREGroundProbe Wins the 2019 Institution of Engineering Technology Innovation Award for Technology Transfer
GroundProbe is celebrating after taking out the Technology Transfer Award at the 2019 Institution of Engineering Technology (IET) Innovation Awards in London. The event acknowledges and celebrates pioneering innovations across the breadth of science, engineering and technology. The Technology Transfer Award recognises “perception-shifting innovations that demonstrate effective use of existing technology from one sector to […]
READ MORERocscience and GroundProbe Launch Two-Way Software Integration
Rocscience and GroundProbe have launched a deep collaboration between their industry-leading software systems, to provide greater value to the global geotechnical community. As part of Rocscience’s new release of their slope stability programmes, Slide3 and RS3, deformation output from any of GroundProbe’s Slope Stability Radars or lasers systems can be imported into these programmes. This […]
READ MOREGroundProbe Unveils the Latest in Radar Technology
GroundProbe has released the latest in Slope Stability Radar monitoring technology, the SSR-Omni. It’s the industry’s most advanced system to date, with the highest specifications and a range of superior features. “It’s the highest spec radar on the market,” said John Beevers, CEO of GroundProbe. “It has a 360 degree angle for complete coverage from […]
READ MOREGround-Breaking News – The Latest in Radar Technology, Slope Stability Radar (SSR) Omni
Since GroundProbe launched in 2001 and the very first Slope Stability Radar (SSR) rolled off the production line, we have experienced first-hand the various challenges presented by different mine sites around the world. At GroundProbe, we don’t believe that a single solution can meet the needs of every mine. Each mine site is unique, existing […]
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