First Mining Drc-Zambia July/Aug 2019 First Mining DRC-ZAMBIA July-August 2019 digital | Page 32

FEATURE
Reutech Mining launches fastest
scanning slope monitoring radar
with the least interruption to daily
operations and we are certain that the
fourth generation MSR will do exactly
that.’
Neville Greyling, product manager,
explains: ‘With the MSRIV Esprit’s
exceptional scan time of less than two
seconds for an entire area covering
more than 22 million m² at an operating
range of 4 000 m, we ensure that
virtually no noise is introduced. Due to
the fact that an entire area is measured
instantaneously, we can provide the
truest, up-to-date slope data.’
S
afety on mines is of paramount
importance, as there is no reason
any longer to put lives in danger
or to risk damage to high value capital
equipment. On big open pit mines, one
of the dangers is the potential of slope
failures. Although slope stability radars
have reduced this risk drastically in the
last decade, these radars have struggled
to handle highly volatile atmospherics
and fast-moving slopes. This was due
mainly to the technologies applied.
Reutech Mining is launching the fastest
scanning and most sophisticated slope
monitoring radar in the industry, the
MSRIV Esprit. The exceptional high
scan speed ensures early detection of
developing slope failures at mines, and
enables accurate movement detections
of fast-moving slopes rapidly changing
atmospheric conditions.
mining operations in a safer, monitored
environment.
‘We are very proud of this very advanced
system,’ says Reutech Mining Executive
Jan de Beer. ‘At Reutech Mining we are
constantly striving to design and produce
the most effective slope monitoring
solutions with radar. It has proven to
minimise risk in daily operations, is
critical to mining planning and increases
productivity. Nothing satisfies us more
than providing the best possible data
With the play on the duality of its name,
cleverness and spirit, Esprit testifies
to the use of the latest core radar
technologies to increase the safety
reaction time between first warning and
the possible event of a slope failure -
thereby contributing to the confidence of
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Accuracy is of utmost importance in the
mining industry: coupling instantaneous
3D area measurements with the fast
scan speed ensures that, when doing
critical monitoring, slope velocities of up
to 13 500 mm/h can be attained – the
best in the market. In addition, during
strategic monitoring, smaller movements
are detected with greater accuracy.
‘This means predicting potential failures
earlier and increasing warning times. It
will result in overall safer open pit mines
in areas prone to fast moving slopes
and with rapidly changing atmospheric
conditions’, adds Greyling.
The Reutech Mining team has gone to
great lengths in ensuring that its radar
sensors stay in line with cutting-edge
technology, and this remains the case
with Esprit. However, tribute must also
be paid to tried concepts and stability of
systems in tough working environments.
The product record of the MSR Modular
series contributed greatly towards
ensuring that, while the Esprit is the
latest technology, it also retains the
reliability and durability required of an
MSR product.
`Reutech Mining welcomes the MSRIV
Esprit into its expanding range of sensor
technology solutions in the mining
industry and feels confident that it will
set the new benchmark for slope stability
sensors. We are a proud team making a
difference in mine safety, planning and
cost effectiveness, comments de Beer.
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