GroundProbe remains completely open for business. All parts of our business – including Geotechnical Support Services, Production & Supply, Product Development and Reliability – are fully operational, and we continue to keep our entire fleet of safety-critical systems and services running. Our Operations and Technical Support across our Business Units continue to service our global […]
READ MOREGMS Software Update
Our GMS system is a best-in-class geotechnical tool but with our latest update to SSR-Viewer; it’s even more user-friendly and useful. These changes and additions provide the GMS with all the capabilities and features of competing systems, alongside the extensive features and benefits unique to the GroundProbe system. Many of these updates are based on […]
READ MORE‘Engineers Australia’ Article – Excerpt – ‘This Australian Technology Helps to Avoid Dangerous Ta...
Originally written and published by Charlotte Barkla from Engineers Australia on 22 October 2020. GroundProbe’s Head of Product Development, Fernanda Carrea, interviewed by Engineers Australia on GroundProbe’s recent Australian Engineering Excellence Award (AEEA) win for the SSR-Omni. In response to major catastrophic tailings dam collapses in recent years, an Australian team has developed a […]
READ MORE‘International Mining’ Article – Excerpt – GroundProbe Brings It All Together
GroundProbe’s Chief Operating Officer, David Noon David Noon, COO at Orica-owned GroundProbe, says improving global tailings dam monitoring practices continues to be a key pillar of its vision of maximum safety for the mining industry. “In the last two years especially, a large number of mine sites have begun actively adopting best-practice monitoring solutions for […]
READ MORECase Study: Prism and Prismless Monitoring
RELIABLE PRISM AND PRISMLESS MONITORING IN AN OPEN-CUT GOLD OPERATION Providing total monitoring flexibility, GroundProbe’s GMS-Dual (Geotech Monitoring Station) can monitor using both prism points – which are paired with physical prisms installed on the pit wall – and virtual points – which are virtual prisms that can be placed digitally on the wall in […]
READ MORECase Study: Targeted Ground Support
GML MONITORS REAR WALL OF SHAFT TO DETERMINE OPTIMAL TARGETED GROUND SUPPORT Underground environments are very dynamic by nature, with the effectiveness of ground support always changing. Through monitoring, areas of high risk can be identified and rehabilitated in a targeted way. At a large, well-known, hard rock mine in Queensland, Australia, visual inspections on […]
READ MORECase Study: Broad-Area Monitoring
BROAD-AREA COVERAGE ACROSS MULTIPLE LARGE OPEN-PIT MINES The Kolomela Mine is located 22km from Postmasburg in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The mine produces direct shipping iron ore and is operated by Anglo American. Kolomela Mine consists of three open-pits: Leeuwfontein, Kapstevel and Klipbankfontein. Kolomela Mine has undergone multiple ramp-ups and is currently […]
READ MORECase Study: Extreme Cold Temperature Success
EXTREME WEATHER SUCCESS – DEPLOYMENT IN RUSSIA’S EXTREME COLD TEMPERATURES Two sites in South Western Siberia – Chernigovets Coal Mine and Zarechnaya Coal Mine – trialled our SSR-XT radar system throughout an extremely harsh winter, which saw the system functioning at -40°C temperatures autonomously without a shelter. Siberia’s climate and weather is very extreme. The […]
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