Mines
Deformation, settlement, and displacement monitoring in open-pit and underground mines using Osprey systems.
Mining application overview
Mines experience continuous ground movement from excavation, backfilling, blasting, and groundwater changes. Effective monitoring helps you track deformation, settlement, and displacement around critical infrastructure and working areas in both open-pit and underground environments.
Common monitoring goals in mines
- Measure slope deformation in open pits and waste dumps along benches, haul roads, and pit walls.
- Track vertical settlement of tailings facilities, backfill, and overburden.
- Monitor convergence and displacement along drifts, crosscuts, and access tunnels.
- Observe deformation around shafts, raises, and other vertical excavations.
- Detect differential movement near surface structures such as crushers, conveyors, and process plants within the mining area.
- Support back-analysis and model calibration with distributed deformation and settlement data along key profiles.
Relevant Osprey products
OTS – ShapeArrays
OTS measures orientation and rotation using triaxial accelerometer inclinometer sensors and supports deformation profiling along a line or curve.
ASP – Settlement Profiler
ASP provides distributed settlement measurements along a nominally horizontal profile using the hydrostatic principle with pressure nodes in a fluid-filled hose.
IPX – Instrumented Extensometer
IPX automates monitoring of standard magnetic extensometer installations using a magnetic-field sensitive probe on an RS-485 bus to measure displacement along a line.
Next steps
- Review all application examples in the applications overview.
- Visit product overviews for OTS, ASP, and IPX to plan a monitoring layout for your mine.