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Case Studies & Technical Papers

Mining - Iron Ore

From Manual Flights to Remote Ops: Automating Drone Surveys at Rio Tinto's Gudai-Darri Site

Rio Tinto began a trail of its first RocketDNA xBot® at its flagship Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in late 2024; a mine renowned as its most technologically advanced operation.

Gold

X-Bot

How Automated Drone Surveys Eliminated Survey Downtime at This WA Gold Mine

At King of the Hills gold mine in WA, their small survey team was stretched thin handling more requests than they could keep up with. Limited resources and FIFO schedules meant they often had days without enough qualified people on site to operate drones.

Australia

August 6, 2025

Mining - Iron Ore

Mining & Construction

From Manual Flights to Remote Ops: Automating Drone Surveys at Rio Tinto's Gudai-Darri Site

Rio Tinto began a trail of its first RocketDNA xBot® at its flagship Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in late 2024; a mine renowned as its most technologically advanced operation.

Australia

March 31, 2025

Mining

Mining & Construction

Drone LiDAR Deployment in Zambia

Rocketmine was deployed to provide LiDAR and Photogrammetry survey data over 7,000 hectares across four project areas in a remote and rural location in Zambia - a country in Southern Central Africa. The Rocketmien team created a DTM (digital terrain model) to understand the position and extents of surface features, together with RGB (photogrammetry) values to create aerial imagery.

Mining & Construction

Preventing Tailings Dam Disasters With Aerial Drone Lidar & Simulation

In 2020, Rocketmine was approached by our client, whose portfolio includes an open-pit gold mine in Ghana. The client required speculative analysis of their tailings dam for safety reasons.

AeroMap

Ghana

October 1, 2020