Industry News

The volume of tailings release due to dam failure has been trending upwards since the 1970s with quantities of material released reaching an average of over three million cubic meters per failure since 2010.

Garry MacPhail, Geospatial Executive Manager for Position Partners, reflects on technology evolution in the last two decades and its effect on the survey profession today and beyond.

According to Safe Work Australia, the mining industry has seen a 51% increase in the number of serious claims for disease and injury between 2000-01 and 2013-14. Proximity detection and collision awareness systems are the kind of safe guards that mine operators can implement to reduce accidents, keep track of machine movements and mitigate risk across the site.

SMIC News Issue 58 including info on the 167th General Meeting, Upcoming Events, Industry Reports, Surveying Education Reports, Surveying & SIS Traineeships and the SMIC Training & Scholarship Program.

AIMS has extended its support for the "A Life Without Limits" program into WA through the WAIS (Western Australian Institution of Surveyors).

An AIMS representative has presented at New Zealand's Otago University in promoting the career opportunities as a mine surveyor.

SMIC News Issue 57 including info on the 166th General Meeting plus the 31st Annual General Meeting, upcoming events, industry reports, surveying education reports, cartographica, surveying and SIS traineeships and the SMIC training and scholarship program.

The Australian Institute of Mine Surveyors,in partnership with the RMIT University in Melbourne, has awarded it's scholarship in Mine Surveying to Jonathan Blowfield.

SMIC News Issue 56 including info on the 165th General Meeting plus industry reports, surveying education reports, surveying and SIS traineeships and the SMIC training and scholarship program.

LEADING global mining software development company Deswik has released an innovative product designed to handle large amounts of scanned survey point data and automate the process of creating valid solids from it.

SMIC News Issue 55 including info on the 164th General Meeting, Industry reports, Surveying Education reports, Surveying and SIS Traineeships and the SMIC Training & Scholarship Program.

BOSSI has released a statistical review for 2017/2018.

AIMS Vice President, Shane Watson was recently invited to attend WHS (Mines) Regulations Workshops and contribute to the development of the WHS (Mines) Regulations proposals.

Surveying Horizons has announced CompNet v3.1, an upgraded release of one of Australia’s foremost network adjustment software packages, now ready for GDA2020.

AIMS held it’s 2018 Moranbah Interactive Day and Candidates Session in mid-May at the Moranbah Community Centre in Queensland.

AAM, a leading Australian surveying company, has announced a partnership with a local indigenous surveying company Wumara Group.

Peter (Buff) Buffier was a Surveyor who worked his way through the ranks of mine surveying in Coal and Allied operated mines in the Hunter Valley of NSW for 35 years until his passing on 17th December 2016 after a short battle with cancer.

SBQ Board Communique - 2 March 2018 - includes info on Registration Issues and Restoration Policy.

The AIMS 2016 WA Curtin Uni Scholarship recipient Jhobie Verdejo has completed her Mine and Engineering Surveying degree and has now graduated.

Issue 50 of SMIC news, including the latest on Industry Reports, Surveying Education Reports, Surveying & SIS Traineeships, SMIC Training & Scholarship Program.