OVERVIEW The Kennecott Copper Mine (also known as Bingham Canyon) is about 25 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The mine, in production since 1903, is one of the largest and deepest open-pit mines in the world and employs over 2000 people. Owned by the Rio Tinto Group, it has produced more copper […]
READ MOREThe Value of Precision
GroundProbe’s Head of Geotechnical, Peter Saunders What is precision? In the field of Geotechnical slope stability monitoring, we tend to use the word ‘precision’ a lot. How precise is the instrument? Do we need it to be so precise? When and why do we need high precision instruments? Firstly, it’s worth taking a moment to […]
READ MOREContinuing to Set the Standard in Geohazard Monitoring for Another 20+ Years
Although we are celebrating 20 years, GroundProbe is still a young business with a lot of growth ahead of us. We have big plans to cement our standing as the most trusted brand for real-time geohazard monitoring, well into the future. We will do this by continuing to invest heavily in research and development to […]
READ MORE20-Year Anniversary Video
GroundProbe is celebrating 20 years of operation and 20 years of the patented Slope Stability Radar! From home-grown start-up to a global innovation powerhouse and a trusted partner of companies around the world. Here’s a look at what our founders, supporters, and the team had to say …
READ MOREFrom Home-Grown Start-Up to Global Innovation Powerhouse – GroundProbe Turns 20
GroundProbe is immensely proud to be celebrating 20 years of operation and 20 years of keeping people and communities safe. Over the last two decades, the company has expanded from a home-grown start-up to become a global innovation powerhouse and the trusted partner of companies around the world. GroundProbe is widely accepted as the global […]
READ MOREProudly Celebrating 20 Years Solving High-Value Problems with our High-Tech Solutions
For 20 years, GroundProbe has been creating state-of-the-art technologies and software that delivers precise and reliable information to our customers, helping them better manage risk, maintain operations and production, and keep people and communities safe. As part of our celebrations, we are proud to share with you a few facts. #Didyouknow that our technologies are […]
READ MOREFrom Home-Grown Start-Up to a Global Innovation Powerhouse and a Trusted Partner of Companies Around the World
2021 sees GroundProbe celebrating 20 years of operation and 20 years of the patented Slope Stability Radar (SSR). #Didyouknow how it all began? In 1993 we were simply a group of university friends with creative engineering minds who became involved in an industry-funded PhD project at the University of Queensland. In 1997, the Australian Coal […]
READ MORESlope Stability Radar Alarm Threshold Validation at Telfer Gold Mine
GroundProbe’s Global Practice Lead – Geotechnical Advisory, Albert Cabrejo, and Head of Geotechnical, Peter Saunders GroundProbe’s Slope Stability Radar (SSR) is the primary monitoring tool at the Telfer gold-copper mine, located in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia. The SSR manages slope instability risk to personnel and equipment in the steep, brittle, rock environment […]
READ MOREGroundProbe Opens Third Dedicated Monitoring Centre in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
GroundProbe have opened a dedicated Geotechnical Support Service (GSS) monitoring centre in Belo Horizonte, Brazil to better serve our growing Brazilian customer base. The centre will provide 24/7 real-time remote radar and laser monitoring services for mine slopes and tailings dams. The centre joins our two existing high-tech monitoring centres in Santiago, Chile, and Balikpapan, […]
READ MOREGroundProbe Launches World-Leading Reactive Geohazard Monitoring and Alarming System
Global technology leader GroundProbe has launched the industry’s most advanced doppler radar for reactive geohazard monitoring, the RGR-Velox. RGR-Velox (Reactive Geohazard Radar) is a military-precision reactive monitoring and alarming system for tailings dam breaches, large slope failures, landslides, and avalanches. It detects, tracks and alarms on moving geohazards in real-time, keeping people, assets, and communities […]
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