GroundProbe Global Practice Lead – Geotechnical Advisory, Albert Giovanni Cabrejo Lievano Tailings dams go through different phases regarding monitoring with radar: Construction—The initial dropping of materials looks chaotic, evidenced by a loss of coherence. Deformation readings during this period are not reliable with radar. This is just the phase in which the dropped materials look […]
READ MORECreating and Maintaining a Successful Continuous Improvement (CI) Strategy
GroundProbe Senior Manager – Quality & Continuous Improvement, Neil Cordon I am sharing my thoughts on the fundamental principles for creating and maintaining a successful Continuous Improvement (CI) strategy. The following tips are based on my work experience at GroundProbe and 12 years as a ‘lean’ practitioner. Some have come from personal hard-learned lessons, […]
READ MOREProviding the support needed to ‘mine-to-plan without harming anyone’
GroundProbe Chief Commercial Officer & VP Americas, Ben Moke A little over two decades ago, a group of PhD students and their professor from the University of Queensland set out to make mining safer. By developing the slope stability radar (SSR), they, and many other innovative thinkers who have since joined them, have succeeded in […]
READ MOREBuilding Change Resilience: Creating a Positioning Statement
GroundProbe Project and Change Manager, Trish Ladd This is the first in a short series of articles about Building Change Resilience. Each article is stand-alone and can also be read consecutively for the overarching view of our journey to change resilience. This calendar year has seen more growth for GroundProbe and a focus on […]
READ MOREReflecting on Brave Women
GroundProbe SAAS Implementation Manager, Bianca Jongbloed Reflecting on Brave Women Last week marked the anniversary of Julia Gillard’s iconic speech addressing misogyny. On October 9, 2012, Julia Gillard bravely confronted the sexism and misogyny she endured as Australia’s prime minister, echoing the experiences of countless women in their daily lives and professional paths. It […]
READ MORESafety, Sustainability and Social License – The 3 S’s in Mining
GroundProbe CEO, David Noon GroundProbe is a technology leader specialising in sensors and software for measuring and monitoring geohazards. While technology innovation is what we do, more importantly, the output of our efforts contributes towards mining’s 3 S’s: Safety, Sustainability, and Social License. Safety “Making Mining Safer” has been GroundProbe’s catchcry and vision statement since […]
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