Trimble Surveying Solutions for Mining Applications

Ensuring safety in an underground mining environment is critical. With Trimble's monitoring solutions, mine shaft stability monitoring can be performed in real-time, providing 24/7 data collection, analysis, and warning alarms to immediately alert personnel to stability problems. At the heart of this system is the Trimble 4D Control Advanced monitoring software, controlling any number of Trimble S8 instruments remotely measuring to multiple targets for flexible configuration and deployment. The Trimble S8 Total Station offers unique FineLock™ technology which includes a smart target sensor with a narrow field of view. It enables the Trimble S8 to detect a target without interference from surrounding prisms. This is especially useful in mining tunnels where multiple targets with very tight spacing are used.

When safety is critical, Trimble's complete real-time monitoring solution provides unsurpassed performance and peace of mind.

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The Trimble R8 GNSS Receiver sets the standard for full-featured GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) receiver technology. This integrated system delivers unmatched power, accuracy and performance in a rugged, compact unit, ready to take on the most difficult conditions like those found in open pit mines. Trimble Access for Integrated Surveying is powerful field software for a wide range of surveying activities, providing mine surveyors with fast and easy to use tools for staking out large blast patterns.

The Trimble R8 GNSS coupled with Trimble Access is the highest productivity surveying solution in the industry.

With the optional Volumes module for Trimble Access for Spatial Imaging, stockpiles can be easily scanned and volume reports created and delivered directly from the field. The streamlined workflows guide the user step by step through the scanning process, including any editing and processing required to create the final result in the field. Combined with the Trimble GX 3D Scanner, this solution enables near real-time volumetric surveying with little or no formal training in scanning technologies.

Trimble's tunneling surveying solutions for underground mining applications provide precise and easy to use tools for drill and blast stakeout, controlling alignment of the excavation progress, and surface scanning for inspection and comparison of design vs. as-built conditions.

For underground mining applications, the add-on Mines module in the Trimble Access field software suite provides step-by-step streamlined workflows for underground mine surveying activities, including multiple drilling rig alignment methods for development drives. Simply select your job and define the profile automated stakeout method, such as center line, grade line, or laser line. Trimble Access will guide you through the set-up and measurement process as well as reporting activities. The Mines module also includes alignment for drilling rig pivot positioning and stakeout for blast hole collars. This specialized workflow for underground mine surveying simplifies each project, reducing learning curves and improving efficiency. Real-time data synchronization with Trimble AccessSync also improves field and office collaboration to get the job done as effectively as possible.

With its advanced FineLock technology, Trimble S8 Total Station enables high-precision 1", 1mm+1ppm measurements even to targets placed closely together as often needed when taking measurements down an underground shaft. A special tunneling model of the Trimble S8 also includes a high power laser pointer to assist in marking areas of over or undercut. In addition to typical measurement and stakeout capabilities, the Trimble VX Spatial Station offers 3D scanning for collecting many points quickly, ideal for as-built surveys. For more detailed and denser point cloud data, the Trimble GX 3D Scanner takes surface scanning to the next level.

Use Trimble RealWorks software to register, visualize, explore, and manipulate underground shaft as-built surveys to create highly visual deliverables, such as drawings or surface renderings showing areas of undercut relative to the intended design.