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A U G U S T / S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 9 www.resourceworld.com 61 EXPLORATION & MINING GEAR Vibration Monitoring for Mining and Quarrying Hansford Sensors manufactures a full range of vibration sensors to help companies meet the challenges of monitoring and maintaining a wide range of machines used in quarrying and mining: motors, gearboxes, pump, screens, crushers and conveyors. In the mining industry machines can run 24/7 under severe conditions. Because downtime affects production and ultimately the bottom line, preventative maintenance is important. The monitoring of continuously moving parts can detect faults before they become big problems: bearing wear, misalignment of shafts and out of balance fans. Hansford Sensors makes sensors for both online and offline monitoring for companies in 44 countries. Hansford Sensors has a flexible approach and can offer both custom and standard solu- tions and are able to adapt products lines to meet specific client's need. LTI's Rock Face Profiler Laser Technology Inc. (LTI) Face Profiler Field Software calculates bench heights (step like walls in an open pit mine), minimum and optimum burdens, drill hole angles and offsets, hold depths, and more – all for the perfect blast! Paired with LTI's TruPulse® 200X or 360°R laser range finder, this system is so easy to use that a single operator can collect highly accurate results in seconds. Creating a profile is as easy as the operator simply follows the prompts to take a shot of the toe and crest points to estab- lish the bench height. Face Profiler automatically designs a 2D profile of the rock face by shooting the laser down the wall. LTI designed the Face Profiler Field Software to help, "maximize safety, manage inventory, and control the costs associated with blast design – for far less money than any other laser profiling package on the market." The Face Profiler app runs on Android® Smartphones versions 4.4 and later and Windows® Mobile 6.0+ devices. Laser Technology also offers solutions for mine surveying, calculating stockpile volumes, and GPS laser offset mapping. Mobilaris Tunneling Intelligence Mobilaris Mining and Civil Engineering offers a decision support system, Mobilaris Tunneling Intelligence™, for mines and tunnels to companies the world over. They do this by providing a system that tracks personnel, equipment, vehicles and machines and presents the information in a 3D map. Situational awareness can shorten response time in an emergency and can increase production efficiency. The system increases traffic awareness minimizing congestion, it enables changes during a shift and provides machine data. Ventilation can be controlled by the presence of machines with the quick creation of a geofence that defines the production area, the trigger condition and the triggered action. The presence of certain defined machines will control the ventilation. The company states, "Imagine being the queen of a massive hive. From every corner of the hive, new data is continuously broadcast to you: every worker, every tool, every task and its progress, and every obstacle and possible danger. You see everything, because you are connected to everything – and everyone."