Key Takeaways Autonomous and semi-autonomous blast-hole drill rigs — Epiroc Pit Viper and Sandvik AutoMine — are the current commercial reality of “advanced drilling.” Autonomous drilling achieves roughly ±5 cm positioning accuracy at planned collar locations, versus roughly ±30 cm for …
Key Takeaways Shovel-face, automated, and blasthole/RC sampling are all being upgraded with sensor packages that reduce manual handling and speed up grade turnaround. Motion Metrics ShovelMetrics and MineSense’s shovel sensor line use AI/computer vision …
Key Takeaways MineSense BeltSense is a real, named, commercially available product — not a generic concept — for continuous ore-grade sensing directly on the conveyor. It measures mineral content on the belt independent of belt speed or throughput, closing the gap between blasthole/shovel grade …
Key Takeaways BLASTDOG is IMDEX’s multi-sensor, semi-autonomous downhole probe that logs blast-hole rock properties at high spatial density. It’s deployed via a robotic logging system, combining automated data acquisition with …
Key Takeaways Envirosuite (EVS Industrial) is the leading environmental intelligence platform used by mining operations, now owned by Ideagen. It combines device-agnostic sensor integration with weather forecasting to predict dust, noise, vibration, and blast-fume impacts up to 72 hours ahead. A …
Key Takeaways Ground water models still rest on MODFLOW 6 or FEFLOW as the actual flow-simulation engine. PyHydroGeophysX, published in 2026, is a new open-source Python platform that bridges hydrological models (MODFLOW, ParFlow) with geophysical inversion tools like pyGIMLi and SimPEG. That bridge …
Key Takeaways Traditional mill surveys are manual, periodic snapshots — a team samples the circuit for a shift and calculates a mass balance after the fact. That’s being displaced by continuous capture: plant historians like AVEVA PI System log the same circuit variables 24/7, at far higher …
Key Takeaways Continuous, wireless geotechnical and hydrological monitoring has replaced periodic manual readings at most modern mines. Platforms like Worldsensing, RST Instruments, and Beyond Monitoring stream piezometer, crackmeter, and inclinometer data in near real time. The AI layer sits on top …
Key Takeaways The competitive frontier in ore sorting isn’t a single sensor — it’s sensor fusion: combining XRT, optical/machine vision, laser, and induction/NIR signals on one platform. Steinert’s KSS is explicitly built as a combined sensor system, letting you pair XRT, XRF, or …
Key Takeaways “Real-time geometallurgy” is the umbrella term for fusing ore characterization proxies (grind/crush hardness proxies, mineral liberation, %solids) into live setpoint recommendations for the plant, rather than waiting for periodic lab testwork. It runs on the same …