Drones are in regular use at many mine sites and have gone from being a novelty to a just another piece of production equipment. Most mines have them now, and […]
From the sunny climes of company HQ, skymineUAV recently ventured north. Descending into a very welcoming but very frozen Toronto in order to attend and exhibit at Prospectors and Developers […]
Two common causes of tailings dam failures below. Drones provide a fast, easy, safe and inexpensive way to address both these problems. • seepage / piping problems • poor […]
“In my time with Barrick Gold, the company was a leader in drone use in mining, with both quadcopters and fixed wing drones in the fleet. Both were useful, and […]
The data needs to processed, stored, and provided to the end users. You have two options for this. You can do it all in-house, using desktop software such as Pix4D […]
Using drones across the entire mining industry is proving transformational, and with this project our focus was on mineral deposit exploration via drone. If a signal from a deposit is […]
“Drones are safer, faster, and about half the cost as compared to traditional ground-based volumetrics.” — Dallas VanZanten – Owner, Skymedia Northwest Drone Mapping software Drones have swiftly become standard practice when […]
“UAV’s are no longer considered innovative, it is now SOP”– Iain Allen | Program Director Innovation | Barrick Gold Corporation. Time is merciless in its endeavour to keep moving […]
The ten highest mines in the world operate about 4,000 meters – about 2 ½ miles – above sea level. All of them are in Peru and Bolivia. About 70 […]
Your drone will give you perfect images, every time, for pennies on the dollar. It’s perfectly safe with few regulatory barriers. It will increase your mine’s expected return on investment. […]
When one hears about a mine collapse in Ghana, it’s usually a galamsey operation – deaths in an illegal small-scale mine dug by impoverished semi-skilled amateurs. Ghana is riven by […]
Mining management may quietly harbor serious disagreements about the scope of use for drones. This is why one should conduct a drone audit on site. Miners grow hungry for the […]
After a situation like this one of the biggest things is accessibility … skymineUAV trains our clients to have drone incident response teams. These drones instantly inspect sites to […]
As we drift further into 2018, our team has seen the big data market shift across the mining industry; no longer do we endure raised eyebrows when mentioning UAV services […]
Understanding a confusing market is why we are here. Published in the mining news everyday is something like ‘drones improve your bottom line’. But how exactly? For a mining company […]
skymineUAV recently attended the 2017 UAV Expo in Las Vegas, NV spending three days discussing industry trends and meeting with a variety of hardware and software providers thus ensuring we […]
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I recently read a fascinating article on the evolution of the Fire Service, it stated fighting a raging fire is one of the toughest uphill battles in the public-safety world. […]
skymineUAV is a specialist firm that supports the mining industry in making optimum use of drone technology. Fully independent and with experienced teams in both mining and UAV operations, we […]