2019 respec & Energy D E C Mining Biannual Newsletter
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RESPEC Mining & Energy Newsletter | December 2019
Table of contents NEWSROOM ....................................................................................................................................................3
// Fully Autonomous Drone Coming in 2020
// GeoSequel® 2.15 Introduces LabTools
// Carissa Gold Mine Reclamation Project
// Delamar Gold-Silver Project
// Kansas Department of Health and Environment Visits RESPEC // Department of Energy Awards RESPEC Part of $7 Million for Geothermal Research
GROWTH AND PEOPLE .................................................................................................................................10
// RESPEC Hires 11 New Mining & Energy Professionals in 2019
// Mining & Energy Intern Program Expands
// RESPEC Visits College Campuses for Recruitment
PRESENTATIONS ...........................................................................................................................................14
// Cook Lake – Landslide Monitoring
// Thermal Breakout 2019 Review
// Field and Lab Testing for Salt Caverns
// Impact of Rural-Urban Migration in China
PARTNERSHIPS .............................................................................................................................................16
// Imetrum’s Groundbreaking Video Monitoring System
// Carlson Software Releases New Cavity Auto-Scanning System
CALENDAR OF EVENTS ................................................................................................................................19
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Newsroom Fully Autonomous Drone coming in 2020
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to Help With Safety and Operations
GeoSequel® 2.15 introduces labtools
Updated Application Now Manages All Data Throughout the Mine Life Cycle
Carissa Gold Mine Reclamation Project
Wyoming’s South Pass City Gold Mining Town Gets New Life
delamar gold-silver Project
First Report Released Show More Than 2 Years of Data Collected
Kansas Department of Health and Environment Visits RESPEC Geology and Well Technology Unit Visits RESPEC Laboratory
DEParTment OF ENERGY AWARDS RESPEC PART OF $7 MILLION FOR GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH
Geothermal Technologies Office Partners with RESPEC, University of WisconsinMadison, and Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory for 3-Year Project
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Fully Autonomous Drone coming in 2020 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to Help With Safety and Operations
Since late 2018, RESPEC has been working to develop a fully autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system for underground inspection, mapping, and search and rescue in abandoned and inaccessible mine workings. In partnership with the robotics and autonomous systems experts at AutoModality (www. automodality.com) and with funding from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), RESPEC is on the cutting edge of underground drone technology research and development. Manually piloted UAV systems for mapping and inspections in underground mines have gained popularity over the last several years. Despite continuous hardware and software development, however, underground drone flights have been largely limited to accessible and relatively low-hazard areas because of the requirement to maintain radio frequency (RF) communication between the UAV and the operator. Fail-safe mechanisms designed to bring the UAV back to its start position in the case of RF signal loss are nonfunctional underground because of the lack of GPS signal; as a result, many underground drone flights have led to a loss of UAV hardware in areas that are off-limits to the personnel and equipment that might be used to recover them. Underground UAV flight requires extremely skilled pilots that can navigate passages and avoid obstacles in low-light, dusty, and wet conditions. These challenges have led the industry to explore and commercialize fully autonomous systems that do not have the same signal restrictions as aboveground UAVs and do not require expert pilots to achieve their mission.
The primary goal of RESPEC’s autonomous UAV project is to improve efficiency and increase miner safety in emergency and high-hazard scenarios while enabling accurate, rapid inspections, and three-dimensional (3D) surveys where GPS and RF signals are not available. The system leverages AutoModality’s knowledge of and experience with autonomous bridge inspections and combines several sensors with AutoModality’s Perceptive Navigation® software to enable push-button autonomous flights underground. With onboard computing and deep-learning artificial intelligence software that is designed to be flexible, programmable, and user-specific, the possibilities for applying this system in underground mines are far-reaching. Among other things, the system can be used for 3D surveying and mapping of stopes; hazard, equipment, and ground-support inspections; exploration and mapping of abandoned workings; and locating and assisting trapped miners in an emergency. Check out underground drone footage.
The autonomous underground UAV system from RESPEC and AutoModality will change how miners think about underground drones and create a safer, more efficient underground mining environment. A video of a 100 percent autonomous, 5,000-foot flight with navigation around two corners and positive identification of a prone mannequin can be viewed at https:// vimeo.com/356767905. The RESPEC/AutoModality autonomous UAV is expected to be available for commercial sale in mid-2020, with inspection and mapping services becoming available in early 2020.
For detailed information, please contact RESPEC’s Ben Haugen, Remote Geotechnics Program Lead, at Ben.Haugen@respec.com
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GeoSequel® 2.15 introduces labtools Updated Application Now Manages All Data Throughout the Mine Life Cycle
A global leader in smart mining solutions for the metals and mining sector, RESPEC Company, LLC, announces the release of GeoSequel® 2.15 With LabTools. GeoSequel® is a comprehensive application used for exploration and mining sample data management. With the addition of LabTools, all aspects of managing sample data in the mining cycle are covered. RESPEC’s GeoSequel® 2.15 eliminates the bottlenecks in data loading and extraction and features a well-designed set of workflows for software use. Designed for user and administrative ease, this reasonably priced software serves a wide spectrum of personnel, including exploration geologists, grade-control and reconciliation staff, in-house laboratory managers and technicians, and environmental managers and technicians.
with high security and covers all sample stages, including acquisition, logging, sample preparation, analyses, quality assurance/quality control, and output to modeling software. Because the workflow for handling samples and analyses varies at each mining operation, the updated software with LabTools is designed with exceptional flexibility so that in-house laboratories can be as independent as necessary and still participate in a centralized and secure database.
RESPEC’s Mining & Energy business unit focuses on improving mining company productivity with innovative data and technology solutions. RESPEC’s Paul Hartley, Director of Sales and Support, commented, “We are very pleased to announce the release of GeoSequel® 2.15 With LabTools. No matter what stage of exploration and mining your company is in, we can save you time, increase your confidence, and protect your investment. GeoSequel® is highly flexible and can handle any type of sample, any type of analysis, and any workflow process.”
RESPEC’s mining software communicates with all general mine planning programs and geographic information systems (GIS) and is not locked into expensive, single-user modeling applications. GeoSequel®, which is available as a cloud subscription or site-based installation, is designed to grow with a company. Powered by SQL Server, GeoSequel® includes the webbased GeoSequel® database manager and five applications: Logger, Tools, Link, Stor, and now, LabTools.
GeoSequel® 2.15 With LabTools enables companies to cover samples from drillholes, blastholes, channels, points in the process stream, and environmental monitoring. The software protects the sample’s chain of custody
When going digital for the connected mining era, companies need a software that is comprehensively multifunctional. The GeoSequel® unifying software design means that a company no longer needs separate
databases for tracking exploration, mining, and environmental monitoring samples. In fact, onsite laboratories that use GeoSequel® 2.15 With LabTools do not need a separate and expensive laboratory information management system (LIMS) application. LabTools was designed from the perspective of laboratory supervisors and technicians and can accommodate any sample or analysis type. The software features full transmittal functionality and the built-in capability to buffer between final laboratory results and operations personnel, including environmental managers. GeoSequel® is 100 percent owned by RESPEC and is used in metals and industrial mineral companies for both open-pit and underground mines.
For detailed information, please contact RESPEC’s Paul Hartley, Director of Sales and Support, at Paul.Hartley@respec.com
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Carissa Gold Mine Reclamation Project Wyoming’s South Pass City Gold Mining Town Gets New Life
Wyoming’s South Pass City is a historic gold mining town from the 1850s. The local Carissa gold mine is one of a thousand reclaimed mine sites in the state. When Wyoming (the state) first considered purchasing and restoring of the Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) 9B-2 – Carissa Mine site, RESPEC was hired to investigate the property and share findings. Our team’s report to the AML included details about the investigative and inventory methods used, findings, methods of hazard mitigation, recommendations, and estimated costs to restore the property to acceptable levels of public safety. RESPEC’s 11 year, multiphase project, initially provided the State with valuable information to determine whether or not to purchase the Carissa property as a historical site. After the State purchased the site in 2003, RESPEC’s team delivered professional engineering services for the design, reclamation, mitigation of hazards, and historical restorations. RESPEC developed interpretive, strategic, and exhibit plans, and evaluated physical and environmental hazards. Our team completed mitigation of hazardous materials, mine dangers, and environmental issues, before beginning the historical restoration work on numerous buildings. RESPEC’s team successfully restored one of the largest boomtowns of Wyoming’s gold rush days.
Three-dimensional model of the Carissa gold mine showing all interior equipment.
RESPEC helped the state of Wyoming to preserve its largest boomtown of the nineteenth century as one of the most authentically restored historic sites of the Wild West.
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delamar gold-silver Project First Report Released Show More Than 2 Years of Data Collected
In October 2019, Integra Resources (Integra) released its first technical report for the first Preliminary Economic Assessment of the DeLamar gold-silver project located in southwestern Idaho. The report follows more than 2 years of data gathering and assessment. Mine Development Associates (MDA), which is a division of RESPEC, worked with Integra, starting in 2017, and used extensive historical documentation to build comprehensive drillhole databases for the two deposit areas that comprise the project. These databases have been continually updated and subjected to thorough verification by Integra and MDA (RESPEC). Three-dimensional (3D) models of late 1880s to early 1900s underground workings were created using original hand-drawn long sections and plan maps from the historical high-grade mine. These models were transformed from the old mine grid into Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates. As-built topographies that reflect open-pit mining undertaken from the late 1970s to the late 1990s were also created. These products, as well as new drilling and detailed geologic interpretations by Integra, were incorporated into highly detailed indicated-level gold and silver resource estimations of the two epithermal gold-silver deposits that presently comprise the project. Integra also undertook 3D modeling of the oxidation state of each deposit’s mineralization, which added critical context to the application of the metallurgical test results that Integra is generating.
Top photo: One of the Historical Pits at the DeLamar Deposit Middle right photo: Drilling Large Diameter Core for Metallurgical Testwork on Florida Mountain Bottom left photo: Drilling the Northern Extent of Sullivan Gulch, Site of 2018 Drilling Bottom right photo: Trade Dollar / Black Jack Pit on Florida Mountain
For more information, please contact RESPEC’s Michael Gustin, Manager, at Michael.Gustin@respec.com
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Kansas Department of Health and Environment Visits RESPEC Geology and Well Technology Unit Visits RESPEC Laboratory
In September, RESPEC welcomed the Geology and Well Technology Unit (GWTU) of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to tour its rock-mechanics laboratory in Rapid City, South Dakota. The Underground Hydrocarbon Storage (UHS) program regulates the storage of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and liquid hydrocarbons in caverns developed in the Hutchinson salt member in central Kansas. Current UHS Regulations (K.A.R. 28-45) were developed in 2003 and limit storage-cavern dimensions for maximum diameter, web thickness, and minimum salt roof. Because of the aging cavern infrastructure at the Hutchinson salt member, many UHS operators want to continue storage operations for caverns past the current regulatory dimensions. Operators often request variances and use geomechanical studies as justification. Salt core is collected near the facility and sent to the RESPEC rock-mechanics laboratory for geomechanical analysis to evaluate structural stability and hydraulic integrity beyond regulatory dimensions. Evaluations include 3D geomechanical modeling of site stratigraphy, numerical modeling of deformation and creep, and analyses of cavern operations and future projections. RESPEC met with GWTU staff and UHS operators to discuss current and future plans, witness the salt-core testing and geomechanical modeling processes, and discuss technical aspects of the regulations.
Top photo: End grinding a test sample to within 0.04 millimeter tolerance Middle left photo: Instrumentation installed on a salt core specimen Middle right photo: Salt and shale contact in core specimen Bottom photo: Salt core specimens ready for testing
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Department OF ENERGY AWARDS RESPEC PART OF $7 MILLION FOR GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH Geothermal Technologies Office Partners with RESPEC, University of WisconsinMadison, and Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory for 3-Year Project
On December 2, 2019, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selected three new projects to receive up to $7 million to research and develop innovative technologies that will reduce the cost of geothermal drilling operations and field development. Geothermal energy is a domestic energy resource from the heat of the earth, which represents a reliable, secure, clean, and nearly inexhaustible energy source. This research is a key step toward achieving geothermal energy’s full resource potential. The selected projects will focus on two significant barriers—understanding the state of stress in the subsurface and mitigating lost circulation events—when drilling fluid flows into one or more geological formations instead of returning to the surface. RESPEC, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory will partner on research studies to improve the understanding of geothermal fields, which will lead to significant cost reductions at several stages of the development cycle. During the 3-year project, RESPEC will focus on directional cooling-induced fracturing technology for near-wellbore stress estimation in geothermal reservoirs. RESPEC will develop a borehole-based stress measurement technology that applies local directional cooling to a borehole wall in a high-temperature geothermal reservoir to induce fracturing. This project supports ongoing research into enhanced geothermal systems, in which fracturing techniques are used to form and enhance deep geothermal reservoirs.
Jay Nopola, Vice President of Mining & Energy is eager to begin the project. “We are very excited to again be working with the Department of Energy to research and bring forth safer environmental solutions. And, I know from partnering with the University of Wisconsin and Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory on previous projects, we all work well together and share a common goal of identifying efficiencies and best practices to improve the state of the industry.” The latest DOE research funding awarded to RESPEC continues to build the long-held relationship between federal agencies and RESPEC, which started in the 1970s while RESPEC was performing federally sponsored research in the energy sector and continues today with three DOE-sponsored research projects for innovative energy technologies.
Founded in 1969, RESPEC is a global leader in geoscience, engineering, data, and integrated technology solutions and continues to push scientific and technical innovation and safe environmental engineering practices.
About the Geothermal Technologies Office The Geothermal Technologies Office, within the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, supports earlystage research and development to strengthen the body of knowledge upon which industry can accelerate the development and deployment of innovative geothermal energy technologies.
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Growth and People RESPEC HIRES 11 NEW MINING & ENERGY PROFESSIONALS IN 2019
New Hires Joined Offices in South Dakota, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Nevada
MINING & ENERGY INTERN PROGRAM EXPANDS Summer 2019 Interns Reflect on Experience
RESPEC VISITS COLLEGE CAMPUSES FOR RECRUITMENT
The RESPEC Team Visited Five Colleges Throughout the United States
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RESPEC HIRES 11 NEW MINING & ENERGY PROFESSIONALS IN 2019 New Hires Joined Offices in South Dakota, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Nevada
We are thrilled to announce that because of RESPEC’s continued growth and expanded services, we have welcomed 11 professionals into our international Mining & Energy department in 2019.
Rapid City, South Dakota Brian Bormes joins the Geology Field Services team with expertise in drill rig operation, core and soil logging, and GIS analysis. Benjamin Haugen, part of the Remote Geotechnics team, adds advanced 3D site investigation skills and data visualization. Ben will be pushing innovation using advanced remotesensing technologies. Matthew Jones joins the Cavern Geomechanics team and has experience in finite element modeling and analysis for solid-mechanic studies. He previously developed a device to measure gas temperatures around stratospheric balloons using acoustic signals through a (NASA) grant. Brady Mills, part of the Cavern Geomechanics team, is a recent graduate of the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. He focuses on analyzing and predicting the behavior of underground salt caverns. Guang Yang, previously a coprincipal investigator for several National Science Foundation grants, contributes computational fluid dynamics and finite element analysis to the Cavern Geomechanics team.
West Virginia Dr. Kaifang Li, who has a PhD in Mining Engineering from West Virginia University, joined the Cavern Geomechanics team. Kaifang is experienced in coal mining and related ground control, including the geomechanical evaluation of caverns.
Lexington, Kentucky Dr. Danielle Campos Rocha, a mining engineer who is fluent in English and Portuguese, adds experience in crushing and grinding, plant optimization, and numerical simulation using the discrete element method and PBM. Debashis Das, a mining engineer, works with international projects that involve crushed stone, dimension stone, frac sand, construction sand, potash, and rock salt.
Mike Raffaldi, a member of the Rock Mechanics team and a Professional Engineer in the state of Kentucky, works on a variety of projects that involve mine geomechanics and ground support. He also specializes in mining rock mechanics and geotechnical engineering.
Michael Cross is part of the Mining Technical Services team and brings more than 39 years of mining and permitting experience to RESPEC. He has designed and permitted some of the largest producing deep mines and surface mines in the state of West Virginia.
Reno, Nevada Derick Unger, a Certified Professional Geologist and Resource Geologist, specializes in metal mining and mineral deposits with a focus on discovering and evaluating mineral deposits that contain gold, silver, zinc, lead, or copper.
We are pleased to welcome our new team members as we expand our Mining & Energy services throughout the country and around the world!
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MINING & ENERGY INTERN PROGRAM EXPANDS Summer 2019 Interns Reflect on Experience
During the summer of 2019, 13 interns worked across RESPEC in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Lexington, Kentucky; Rapid City, South Dakota; and Richardson, Texas. The interns gained experience in all areas of the company, from the three business units to marketing and administration. Five of the interns joined the Mining & Energy business unit. The breadth of experience, both life and technical, that the interns brought to RESPEC provides a unique opportunity for building and broadening our perspectives. Our 2019 interns shared a desire to learn, fearlessness when taking on projects or tasks in areas of limited or no experience, an interest in adventure, and an approach to careers with a global view. Such a perspective of a career without boundaries is essential to building and maintaining a dynamic company that is capable of taking on the challenges of an ever-changing world. Thomas DeHart, a mining engineering student at Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T) with minors in geology and explosives engineering, interned at the Lexington office during the summer. He says, “During my time in Lexington, I’ve worked with mine plans for aggregate quarries in the Philippines and Canada, as well as the new safety initiative across the company. I have also had the opportunity to create custom, dynamic AutoCAD tools that will been implemented officewide and perhaps companywide.” Thomas recognizes what he gained by working at RESPEC: “I can’t wait to apply this new
knowledge in the future at school and in my eventual career. I have enjoyed the experience greatly—the diversity of talent I’ve had the opportunity to work with and the atmosphere for learning that is promoted here in Lexington.” Noah Ziegmann, Molly Keller, Todd Kostecki, and Jared Long-Fox were welcomed by the Rapid City Mining & Energy team, and each took away a unique view of various business unit components. While Noah, a high school intern with a full-ride scholarship to Lake Area Technical Institute for precision machining, worked with Evan Keffeler on machining and fabricating instruments for mining clients, Molly collected data and performed analyses to correlate the material characteristics of salt to its strength. Molly also discovered her knack for geomechanical modeling while assisting with two-dimensional (2D) thermomechanical models.
modeling with the Cavern Geomechanics group. “I have a decent amount of previous experience in modeling, but at RESPEC, I have learned to use different software suites and gained new tools and perspectives to use when modeling, which is extremely useful,” Jared says. “My master’s thesis involves the same modeling scheme, so I am sure I will be able to transfer what I learn here at RESPEC to my research, and vice versa. Another big plus is that everyone at RESPEC is friendly and always willing to help or talk through an idea, which I believe is key to success in an industry such as ours.” For more information on RESPEC’s intern program or future employment opportunities, please contact humanresources@respec.com.
Noah says, “I was able to run the new mill quite a bit, furthering my familiarity with machinery, which will help my future in the machine world.” He continues, “Over my 5 months working here, I have come to love this place and everyone I work with! They are all super friendly and it makes for an amazing work environment. It is definitely hard for me to leave.” Todd has completed his PhD in engineering science, and his focus on design methods for rock bolts used in situ measurements from an underground coal mine provided a valuable benefit for the Rock Mechanics team. Similarly, as Jared works to finish his master’s thesis, he continues to focus on thermal-mechanical
Thomas DeHart, a RESPEC summer intern in Lexington, Kentucky, working diligently.
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RESPEC VISITS COLLEGE CAMPUSES FOR RECRUITMENT The RESPEC Team Visited Five Colleges Throughout the United States
As a part of our ongoing effort to find bright young engineers for our RESPEC family, a team of employees from Mining & Energy has just completed their annual fall college recruitment. Employees from the Lexington office teamed up with Patrick Wieck from the Denver office to visit five mining engineering schools around the country, including the University of Kentucky, Virginia Polytechnical Institute, Missouri University of Science and Technology, West Virginia University, and the Colorado School of Mines. During the college campus recruitment tour, RESPEC hosted a social event to get to know students and shared information about RESPEC and the type of work that we perform. At each campus, RESPEC employees followed up with student interviews to find the next great RESPEC team members for full-time positions and summer internships. The Lexington office has been involved in the fall student recruitment effort for 2 years. Lexington’s efforts have led to several summertime internships for their office, as well as the Rapid City office. Debashis Das (Lexington) was a former summer intern who accepted a full-time position and now works on feasibility studies, due-diligence analyses, and permitting for RESPEC. The Lexington office is planning to hire one or two full-time positions and one or two internships from the group of students that they met during fall recruitment. For more information on RESPEC’s internship program or future employment opportunities, please contact humanresources@respec.com.
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Presentations Cook Lake – Landslide monitoring Presented by John Knight, Project Engineer
Field and Laboratory Testing for Salt Caverns Presented by Sam Voegeli, Supervisor
Thermal Breakout 2019 Review Presented by Jay Nopola, Vice President
impact of rural-urban migration in china Presented by Edmundo Laporte, Principal Consultant
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Presentations Access RESPEC’s Latest Presentations:
Cook Lake - Landslide Monitoring
Field and Laboratory Testing for Salt Caverns
Presented by John Knight
Presented by Sam Voegeli
John.Knight@respec.com
Sam.Voegeli@respec.com
Thermal Breakout 2019 Review
Impact of Rural-Urban Migration in China
Presented by Jay Nopola
Presented by Edmundo Laporte
Jay.Nopola@respec.com
Edmundo.Laporte@respec.com
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Partnerships Imetrum’s Groundbreaking Video Monitoring System
High-Speed Cameras Capture Sub-Centimeter Movement With Digital Image Correlation
Carlson SOFTWARE RELEASES NEW CAVITY AUTO-SCANNING SYSTEM All-New Cavity Auto-Scanning Laser System
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Imetrum’s Groundbreaking Video Monitoring System
High-Speed Cameras Capture Sub-Centimeter Movement With Digital Image Correlation
RESPEC has been Imetrum’s exclusive North American sales partner for noncontact precision measurement systems since 2014. Imetrum’s groundbreaking Video Gauge™ system enables the user to rapidly collect submillimeter 2D and 3D displacement data that can be used for testing and monitoring in the civil infrastructure and mining industries. Video Gauge™ uses high-speed cameras to collect videos and track movements with digital image correlation (DIC). Although DIC has been available for many years, the technique used by Imetrum is the most accurate and reliable on the market today. Video Gauge™ can be operated in real time to provide live measurement results for monitoring applications and can be used to postprocess video data and make measurements from any digital video file. Imetrum’s hardware and software tools augment an already deep field of miningfocused monitoring tools developed by RESPEC over the last 50 years and serve to expand our product and services offerings. Top photo: RESPEC’s Amy DiRienzo operating a Video Gauge system at an openpit mine in North America. Bottom photo: A close-up view of a Video Gauge™ camera unit.
For Video Gauge™ sales, rentals, or consulting information, please contact RESPEC’s Ben Haugen, Remote Geotechnics Program Lead, at Ben.Haugen@respec.com
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Carlson SOFTWARE RELEASES NEW CAVITY AUTO-SCANNING SYSTEM All-New Cavity Auto-Scanning Laser System
RESPEC is pleased to announce Carlson Software’s latest groundbreaking offering: the all-new Cavity Auto-Scanning Laser System (C-ALS) Gyro in their laser measurement device (LMD) line. The C-ALS has evolved to include the gyro option, which provides greater navigational capability without relying on mechanical alignment from deployment rods and allows for higher accuracy and easier deployments. The C-ALS Gyro unit contains a three-axis gyro that tracks the probe’s heading and uses accelerometers to determine the inclination, which results in unrestricted deployment methods (i.e., up, down, or horizontal). The C-ALS system comes with Carlson’s intuitive software. The C-ALS Gyro provides safe, time-saving, and accurate mapping capabilities for inaccessible underground cavities. The system offers flexible deployment methods via boreholes, boom, or zip line. With the C-ALS Gyro system, the user can collect the data that are needed to protect worker safety; report to project executives in high detail; project budget, design, and engineer solutions; and minimize disruption. The system is often used from the surface to provide a detailed point cloud of the subsurface environment. Other advantages of the C-ALS Gyro include taking precise and accurate void measurements in minutes, spherical coverage for a full view (i.e., 360 degrees) from a single scan, remote-controlled operation, easy transportation, and a ruggedized design. RESPEC and Carlson Software have formed a strategic partnership through which RESPEC’s world-renowned experts in geoscience, engineering, and technology distribute the Carlson LMD line in the United States. RESPEC also performs demos, trainings, and service work using
the Carlson LMD line. A team of professionals from RESPEC, which is a global leader in integrated technology solutions and consulting for mining, minerals, and energy, a RESPEC team of professionals will arrive on site, use their expertise to perform the data collection, and deliver a point cloud file of the client’s choosing to maximize project returns. Applications of the C-ALS Gyro include the followings:
The C-ALS Gyro allows the user to monitor excavations, assess risks, design solutions, and support underground and surface-mining projects while providing detailed point clouds of the following:
// Excavation and infill of stopes // Void locations // Geometry and condition of mine workings
// Subsurface voids and cavities
// Inaccessible historic workings
// Undercrofts
// Collapsed areas, sinkholes, and troughs
// Underground chambers and tanks
// Ore pass erosion
// Duct surveys
// Void volumes
// Inaccessible roof spaces
// Positions of cavities in relation to other
// Subsidence investigations // Collapsed mine workings // Culverts
underground workings and structures
// Sizes and locations of remaining pillars // Locations of voids/workings relative to surface features.
// Shafts and bunkers // Underground caverns // Industrial production facilities where access is limited or unsafe.
For more information on Carlson’s LMD line, please contact RESPEC’s Nick Maronde, Instrumentation Sales Specialist, at Nick.Maronde@respec.com
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Calendar of events Join Us at Upcoming Conferences, Trade Shows, and Events:
2019
2020
December 1–6
January 20
American Exploration & Mining Association (AEMA) 125th Annual Meeting
Association for Mineral Exploration (AME) Roundup
Saskatchewan Geological Open House Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
January 26
International Society of Explosives Engineers (ISEE) 46th Annual Conference on Explosives and Blasting Technique Denver, Colorado
December 5–6
Kentucky Blasting Conference Lexington, Kentucky
December 10–11 Underground Stone Safety Seminar Louisville, Kentucky
World Geothermal Congress Reykjavik, Iceland
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Sparks, Nevada
December 2–4
April 27
February 23–26
Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME)
May 3
Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum (CIM) Convention and Expo Vancouver, BC, Canada
June 28
American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA) 54th US Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium Golden, Colorado
Phoenix, Arizona
February 29–March 4
Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Toronto, Ontario
April 26
Solution Mining Research Institute (SMRI) Spring Conference Detroit, Michigan
For more information on how you can join RESPEC at any of these events, please contact Tabetha Stirrett at Tabetha.Stirrett@respec.com
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