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Mining

Drones are widely used in the mining industry, as their use cases have become more and more compelling as their capabilities increase over time. Common uses for drones in mining are;

  • Volumetric calculations, eg working out the amount of material in a stockpile at any given time, as this directly correlates with financial and operational performance metrics

  • Project planning, eg working out how much overburden needs to be removed to access the target material below, assessing drill and blast sites, before and after

  • Operational issues, eg working out where material needs to be removed or added, in order to optimise drainage

  • Safety and compliance issues, eg making sure that landfall gradient limits are not exceeded

  • Maintenance, eg making sure that haulage roads are still serviceable and not too eroded

  • Exploration, eg drones carrying sophisticated magnetometers can now explore vast areas far faster than land-based crews, at far cheaper rates than choppers / planes

 

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