The Miner Operated Survey System (MOSS) is an underground surveying software that supports a wide range of Leica robotic total stations, including the latest state-of-the-art MS60 3D face-mapping technology. MOSS integrates mine design specifications and drawings when completing mark-ups, and provides real-time information to miners, engineers, and geologists. The software is fully matured and packed with decades of input from miners, geologists, and engineers.
Accuracy and efficiency are two critical elements in the mining industry today. It is crucial that miners follow mine plans accurately to be as efficient as possible. With each meter of advance, there is a chance of overbreak, underbreak, and deviation from the designed mine plan. These three factors can result in a substantial loss in money and time. Overbreak, as well as damaged zone, significantly impacts the project cost, construction period, safety, and performance of the underground structures.
With MOSS, optimization is key. With more demand for productivity, you need to keep up and generate an ROI for any investment you make. As a solution with more functionality and a significant increase in accuracy and efficiency, the Miner Operated Survey System (MOSS) is a total underground solution, proving its ROI almost immediately!
Operations, engineering, and geology departments at a mine are consistently kept up to date on the progress of all active headings. Mishaps at the face can be addressed the day-of, instead of in days or weeks, which can prevent expensive rework.
MOSS has been proven to help reduce overbreak by 10-15% by enforcing best practices. Miners are provided ample feedback to help their drilling improve, stay consistent and prevent them from deviating from design. Miners can see how well they are progressing and will have more accountability for their work.
Using MOSS to collect the necessary data is a one-man job, thereby reducing manpower cost while increasing safety by having fewer people in the development heading.
With MOSS implemented in active headings, we see a direct result to improved workflow and faster cycle times. The real-time data MOSS is able to capture and provide solutions for: Comparison between Mine Design and Actual Blast, Setting of Line and Grade, Collar Drill Hole Location, 3D drill Pattern Generator, Face Scanning and Photos, and Cavity Monitoring. The entire seven-step process takes on average twenty to twenty-five minutes.
3D face-mapping technology. MOSS integrates mine design specifications and drawings when completing mark-ups, and provides real-time information to miners, engineers, and geologists. MOSS can reduce overbreak to under 10%, as well as providing very accurate line and grade markups for every round
Our MOSS solution helps to optimize your mine by guiding the miner to accurately mark up the face, calculating the centreline, crank line, and smoke marks for the miner all in just less than 13 minutes! MOSS streamlines the entire process of marking the face for accurate and efficient rounds each time, as well as bringing the data to the surface!
With MOSS, the engineer’s plan for the mine is followed accurately, measuring each face with real-time results, ensuring that the miners can get to the ore as efficiently and accurately as possible.
MOSS has proven direct cost savings due to the real-time data provided to the miner at the face. Each time the MOSS process is completed, the mine plans are updated, this results in newly updated plans every day. After the tablet is synced, surface workers can quickly see overbreak or underbreak, deviation from mine design, topes, and volumetric data. See an immediate return on investment in direct relation to more accurate metrics to month-end reconciliations and financials.
The MOSS solution helps to optimize your mine by guiding the miner to accurately markup the face, calculating the centreline, crank line and smoke marks for the miner all in just less than 13 minutes. MOSS streamlines the entire process of marking the face for accurate and efficient rounds each time, as well as bringing the data to the surface.
“Studies show that most mines are looking at an overbreak of up to 15%.” (Lalonde, 2016). When a mine uses MOSS it drastically reduces overbreak and underbreak – by 10-15%, and takes the guessing out of the process.
As the demand for mineral and metal deposits grow, energy costs fluctuate and profit margins tighten, a mine’s ability to keep up in the most efficient way is key. Recognizing that technology is essential for success is the way forward. The MOSS solution helps to optimize your mine by guiding the miner to accurately mark up the face, calculating the centreline, crank line, and smoke marks for the miner all in just less than 13 minutes! MOSS streamlines the entire process of marking the face for accurate and efficient rounds each time, as well as bringing the data to the surface!
When it comes to having a competitive edge in the mining industry, integrating technology, automating, and optimizing workflow are the keys to a total mine solution. MOSS integrates mine design specifications and drawings when completing markups, and provides real-time information to the Miners, Engineers, and Geologists.
