going beyond traditional mapping

As a consultant for one of the leading building materials businesses in the world, RESPEC has been providing aboveground and underground perspectives for displaying the qualities of their unmined resources. RESPEC consults for the company on multiple quarry planning and design projects in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia.

file that is saved in the tool’s internal memory. When the tool is retrieved from the borehole, the survey string file automatically downloads to an operating device via Bluetooth and the tool is then ready to survey the next hole.

When all boreholes have been surveyed, the data can be reviewed locally on the operating device or transferred to an office computer and imported into blast optimization software. Our team can then reevaluate the asdrilled pattern and adjust the loading of the blast pattern if necessary.

When reviewing the data, our team looks for the borehole distance to the face, toe location, orientation and location relative to adjacent boreholes, and depth. This quick and simple audit helps the RESPEC team support safe and optimized blasting.

Your team can easily implement the Carlson Boretrak2 at your site too!

For additional questions on borehole surveying and blast optimization equipment and services, reach out to one of our team members.

For detailed information, please contact RESPEC’s Tyler Artz, Instrumentation Specialist, Tyler.Artz@respec.com

RESPEC’s services include creation of block model visualizations that can unlock further understanding of mine reserves beyond traditional 2D-only map views. During the process, we use ArcGIS Pro’s 3D Analyst to provide a threedimensional (3D) isometric perspective of their quarries, which effectively and simultaneously shows the underground data and the aboveground surface. We use the Slice feature, among other 3D tools, which dynamically cuts through the mapping information at any angle, width, elevation, or location, and can be dynamically sliced in any direction.

The underground 3D information begins as GIS points that contain the resource chemistry, quality, and bench elevation attributes. Through an automated process developed by RESPEC, the GIS points are converted to 3D blocks and placed at the provided bench elevation and color coded by quality, giving a unique perspective that 2D maps cannot achieve.

RESPEC publishes the mapping on ArcGIS Online for the client, where they can also use the Slice tool.

For detailed information, please contact RESPEC’s Brady Johnson, GIS Analyst, Brady.Johnson@respec.com