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INTERNATIONAL MINING HALL OF FAME
maintenance and system failure indication of
vital mine ventilation systems.
Working with the UK’s Mining Research and
Development Establishment in the 1980s, Trolex
under his leadership developed an improved
mining smoke detector, the Trolex P3270. The
P3270 was less sensitive to dust and moisture
than previous devices and could respond to fires
in wind speeds of up to 7 m/s.
In the 1990s, Pierce-Jones pioneered the
TX9042 which quickly established itself as an
iconic product in mining safety. The eight-way
programmable sensor controller is hugely
versatile and used for sensing gas, flow,
pressure, temperature as well as vibration.
Although there is a next generation product, it is
still widely used with 500 new units installed
globally in 2012.
More recently he led the development of
Trolex’s popular Sentro 1 (TX6351) intelligent
universal gas detector, and the award-winning
Sentro 8, the very latest generation of multi-gas
and environmental monitoring systems.
The best-selling Sentro 8 brings together an
array of hazardous area technologies in one
easy-to-use system that is both highly versatile
and cost-effective. Able to monitor multiple
aspects of the mining environment such as gas,
humidity, temperature, pressure and vibration,
the Sentro 8 is a fully integrated system. Almost
500 installations have been made globally since
it was launched in 2011.
Surface Mining inductee Dr Jonathan Peck was
a co-founder and CEO of Aquila Mining Systems,
which was subsequently sold to Caterpillar. In
this role, he led the development effort that
pioneered the use and development of real-time
high precision GPS guidance products for both
blasthole drills and cable shovels in the mid1990s. These developments set the standards for
this technology, which is still in use 20 years
later.
Dr Jonathan Peck led the
development effort that
pioneered the use and
development of real-time high
precision GPS guidance products
for both blasthole drills and cable
shovels
He deployed production grade,
ruggedised PC-based mobile
computers for use on a wide range
of blasthole drill makes and
models. Besides production
monitoring, the applications
included rock recognition, based
on data collected by drill monitors,
and retrofit drill control systems.
All subsequent work on rock
recognition has been based on the
work Peck did as a PhD candidate
and later at Aquila.
He delivered the first full
integrated production and
diggability monitoring, load
weighing, health, and high
precision GPS guidance products
for cable shovels in the mid-1990s.
Following his departure from
Aquila (Caterpillar), he served as
Head of the Department of Mining Engineering
Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario) and
established his consulting firm in 2004 (Peck
Teck Consulting) Through Peck Tech, he has
continued innovation in the development of new
blasthole drill related technology including
advanced rock recognition algorithms,
augmented GPS devices, and autonomous drill
operation.
Peck over the last 25 years has pioneered a
number of technologies for mobile equipment in
the surface mining industry. These developments
continue to be the underlying technology for
products in use today. The products have had a
significant impact in reducing costs and
increasing productivity in the worldwide surface
mining industry.
He is a leader in innovative technology,
conceptual design and development with both
academic and entrepreneurial experience in
delivering pragmatic and robust mining
technology solutions to a global clientele.
Underground Development inductee, the late
Jim Robbins, was ultimately responsible for the
hard rock tunnel boring machine (TBM). His
company also went on to purchase the rights for
the design of a raise boring machine which also
became synonymous with the Robbins name. He
founded The Robbins Company in 1952, and went
on to design and manufacture the world’s first
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