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 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 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 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 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 MOREGMS: Prism and Prismless Monitoring
TOTAL MONITORING FLEXIBILITY The GMS provides total monitoring flexibility. It allows users to not only monitor prisms, but also add new virtual points on the wall. Reflecting the laser signal directly off the rock, the GMS achieves precision users can act on.
READ MOREGMS: Dual Cameras and Three Levels of Zoom
SET-AND-FORGET The GMS is set-and-forget, requiring no hardware interaction after deployment and minimal maintenance over time. Users can control the unit from the software, allowing visual inspections to be carried out entirely remotely.
READ MOREGMS: SSR-Viewer Integration
RAPID, PRECISE ANALYSIS The GMS is fully integrated with SSR-Viewer, GroundProbe’s patented, market-leading software. It offers the rapid, precise analysis of data to detect trends, and the ability to send alerts for immediate action. Its powerful data visualisation, charting and analysis tools take the GMS well beyond the capabilities of typical robotic total stations.
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LONG-TERM, BACKGROUND MONITORING The GMS (Geotech Monitoring Station) monitors vast mine areas for long periods of many months to many years. It detects and measures deformation on slopes, tailings dams, dumps, cuttings, and vegetated slopes.
READ MOREGML Monitors Rear Wall of Shaft to Determine Optimal Targeted Ground Support
TARGETED GROUND SUPPORT OVERVIEW Underground environments are dynamic by nature, with the effectiveness of ground support consistently 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 the rear wall of a shaft showed cracking in the shotcrete. […]
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