For the past decade IMA Engineering has been developing sensor applications for any type of blasthole and reverse circulation drill rigs, with its IMA Blasthole Sampler Analyzers.

Mr. Ilpo Auranen, Chairman of IMA Engineering has been recently interviewed by Dan Gleeson from the International Mining Magazine on the topic of automating the sampling and analysis process when carrying out drilling.

According to Mr. Auranen, autonomous drilling operations have been an option for companies in the most established mining regions for more than a half-decade.

Despite the established nature of the technology, no miners or OEMs to date have looked to complete the automation loop with a robotized sampling and analysis system.

What is IMA Engineering?

IMA Engineering has used on-line sensors for analyzing ore and waste rock in mining for over 25 years. Today IMA on-line sensors are used in various stages of the mining process including on-line analysis of drill cores, drill chips, ore, and waste in loader buckets, ROM ore analysis on conveyor belts and in bulk ore sorting, as well as slurry analysis in concentrators.

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