FIND OUT WHAT DRONES SEE WHEN FLYING THROUGH A MINING STOPE
Drones find another purpose as miners develop their own mining drones .
by Cielo Panda
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Newmarket Gold has designed their own drone to inspect open stopes for misfires and to map the surrounding walls inside a mine . Ion Hann , Mine Manager of the Fosterville Gold Mine , said that the mine had already been built and developed last year and is providing remarkable advances in mining today . They hope to reach the stage where drones enter the mining industry as a standard for emergency responses , which includes search and rescue scenarios underground . There are numerous possibilities of this type of technology being introduced in the mining
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industry . It can be used to aid with operator training during field work , where a live feed can be sent to the trainer while operator plans a heading . Hann commented that their ultimate goal is to get the drones into an autonomous state so the risks of site inspections and re-entries would lessen as operators would be able to do it on the surface .
WHAT THE 2016 RIO OLYMPIC MEDALS ARE MADE OF
What you see is not always what you get .
The most-coveted medal for the 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is not exactly what its name implies : the 500-g gold medal barely contains the precious yellow metal , only about 6 grams , with the rest , 494 grams , as silver . But its maker assures that the gold is to have a certain amount of purity and of very high quality amid the lustrous coat . This medal costs US $ 568.02 .
The other medals also have the same weight . The silver medal is 92.5 % pure silver , according to the production manager of the Olympic medals at the Brazilian Mint , Victor Hugo Criado Berbert . It is worth about $ 315 .
The bronze medal , on the other hand , is made in part from the same copper that are in Brazilian coins .
The gold and silver medals have their silver coming from mirrors and plates . A total of 1.6 tonnes of silver was used in 812 gold medals and 812 medals . On the other hand , about 172 ounces of gold were used to create all 812 gold medals .
In total , the makers Brazilian Mint spent over $ 228,000 worth of gold and over $ 1 million worth of silver at current prices . Best of the best athletes in this year ’ s Rio Olympics will take home medals 85 mm in diameter , 11 mm high in the center and 6 mm high on the edges .
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