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 developed as part of the original Large Open Pit Mine Slope Stability Project (LOP 1). Currently, the software is only available to the original sponsors of that project as well as researchers. However, sponsors have approved the release of the software and the process to finalise this underway. This application allows […]

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, […]

Our technologies are being developed for other industrial applications, including mineral processing and manufacturing.   More information to come.