A new company has used the latest technology in seismic imaging to hep mining companies map their ore bodies and plan mining operations.
Launched by Curtin University of Technology’s Western Australian School of Mines (WASM), HiSeis uses the technology and expertise in seismic imaging developed over many years in Curtin’s Department of Exploration Geophysics, so it can be applied to ore bodies in a hard rock environment.
Dr Anton Kepic, Head of WASM’s Department of Exploration Geophysics and Dr Milovan Urosevic are founding shareholders in HiSeis and have a lead a team in developing this new technology.
According to Dr Kepic, seismic imaging is commonly used in the field to locate oil and gas reservoirs but in the past it has been difficult to obtain interpretable images in hard rock environments.
“With the technology we’ve developed, we are now able to work with mining companies to give them a much better understanding of their mine site geology using 3D seismic imaging techniques,” he says.
The imaging service has already been proven successful by some of HiSeis’ customers including Barrick Gold, Independence Group, Rio-Tinto, BHPB, Goldfields, Consolidated Minerals, ERA, and First Quantum.
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