Lake Cooper Machine Guidance

Mawsons Lake Cooper quarry management had the task of bringing together two quarrying areas that had different bench levels.

Working with our engineering team, a plan was created to progressively bring the pit together, however given the complexity of controlling this using conventional survey methods, a decision was made to fit a machine guidance system to the Komatsu WA600 face loader and TIM3D Hole Navigation System to the sites Sandvik drill rig.

Using a combination of these two high precision technologies, the two ends of the pit are coming together precisely and the site has experienced a significant reduction in operating cost per tonne due to greater control over drill and blast and excavation.

For more information, please contact Steve Franklin on steve.franklin@eltirus.com or +61 474 183 939.