Modern Mining February 2015

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PRODUCT News
44 MODERN MININGFebruary 2015
Maptek™ has released I-Site™ Drive to pro-
vide mines and industrial operations with
a faster, more accurate system for frequent
stockpile volume reporting.
I-Site Drive continuously acquires data
with a recommended I-Site laser scanner
mounted on a moving vehicle. Surveyors
can quickly measure stockpiles for report-
ing and comparing daily or weekly volumes,
reducing the time for data collection and
minimising interruption to site activities.
The Inertial Navigation System (INS)
I-Site Drive allows fast stockpile volume reporting
installation in the custom vehicle mount is
the key to survey efficiency. It allows the
laser scanner to acquire data continuously
and automatically assigns real world coor-
dinates to the data, ready for processing.
“Faster data collection, reduced risk to
operators and shorter processing time are
key benefits of I-Site Drive,” say Maptek’s
Manager of Laser Imaging Systems, Athy
Kalatzis. “Accurate stockpile reconciliation
is easy using I-Site Drive. The same laser
scanner handles stockpile volumes, road
I-Site Drive continuously acquires data with a
recommended I-Site laser scanner mounted on a
moving vehicle.
Set Point awarded lab contract for Husab mine
Set Point Laboratories, a division of the Set
Point Group, has recently been awarded the
contract to set-up and manage a Chemical
Analytical Laboratory in Namibia on behalf
of Swakop Uranium for a period of at least
five years.
Planned to be fully operational in October
2015, the laboratory will offer a full qualified
service spectrum with various techniques
such as XRF, ICP and Wet Chemical analysis
of geology, run of mine and plant samples
up until the production of U3O8 at the new
Husab mine, currently under construction.
Husab will be the second largest ura-
nium mine in the world when it reaches full
production capacity, and it will significantly
increase Namibia’s uranium production.
Set Point Laboratories, tel (+27 11) 923-7000
and pit surveys, pit updates, face mapping
and silo volumetrics.”
Kalatzis adds that stockpiles are cur-
rently measured by driving around the
perimeter with a vehicle-mounted GPS.
Volumes are then extrapolated by project-
ing the angle of the GPS string from the
base. “I-Site Drive links the laser scanner
directly with GPS to generate the stockpile
profile as it is circumnavigated. The volume
is accurately calculated without estimating
or inferring from unknown points,”he says.
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