Modern Mining February 2015

PRODUCT News

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. 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. Maptek, website: www.maptek.com

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.

such as XRF, ICP and Wet Chemical analysis of geology, run of mine and plant samples up until the production of U 3 O 8 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

Planned to be fully operational in October 2015, the laboratory will offer a full qualified service spectrum with various techniques

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