Current Projects

Overview Thisl is joint project between the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) and CSIRO and funded by ACARP (project C23028). Incorporating geology in the blast design can deliver substantial improvements in drill and blast outcomes and equipment productivity. Rock strength and rock mass structure are the primary influences on fragmentation, and fragmentation impacts significantly on equipment productivity, from […]

Overview Sirovision is a geological / geotechnical mapping and analysis system that generates accurate, scaled 3D images of rock faces from stereo photographs taken in either open pit or underground environments. Sirovision allows mining professionals to quickly and accurately: Map structures daylighting at the surface to automatically determine their properties Automatically detect simple wedge and […]

Overview OPS/ SIROMODEL was originally developed as part of the Large Open Pit Mine Slope Stability Project. This application allows the user to create a model of a section of an open pit excavation for slope stability analyses. It also includes a multi-function discrete fracture network (DFN) generator. This allows deterministic discontinuities such as bedding […]

Getting more from your core Since 2007, CORE PROFILER has provided exploration and mining companies with a tool that logs core to scale, enables rapid and consistent logging, allows geotechnical measurements to be made directly from  the core.   The problem Central to all geological characterization, including the interpretation of vast amounts of geophysical data, […]

Underground Stereo Camera Rig We developed a stereo camera rig to improve productivity in underground mining environments. Constraining the geometry of the cameras enables 3D stereo images that can be built faster, more robustly and with less survey support.       The stereo camera rig has since been commercialised by our partner Datamine Software and […]