Mine Monitoring – Surface

Side Wall Monitoring – Greater Productivity and Safety

ADVANCED WARNING OF SIDE WALL INSTABILITY

SP2’s remarkable and unique technology can be used to continuously monitor and detect microseismic events occurring within the slope walls of open cut mines and other surface material deposits such as levees, giving advance warning of internal movement and the potential for collapse.

Each sensor is capable of detecting microseismic events up to 1 km horizontally and below ground. This eliminates the need for bore holes.

DETECT MICROSEISMIC MOVEMENT OF LIQUID OR INSTABILITY

Its unique ability is to “see through”, in real time, the noise generated by machinery, vehicles and other ambient sounds, often many thousands of times greater than the microseismic events themselves. This now gives the potential for mines to significantly increase their yields by allowing the working angles of slopes and sidewalls to be increased and yet still meet safety requirements.

The 3D image of the internal strata continuously monitors real time changes and their location deep within the rock and spoil and, as excavation continues, early warning can be triggered well in advance of impending external movement or slippage – a breakthrough advantage over other techniques for slope monitoring

Example of a typical deployment with the sensors mounted on the surface without the need for bore holes.