Utilising GPS and robotic reflectorless surveying equipment and a variety of software packages including LSS, AutoCAD and Surpac, PSS offers a comprehensive quick response, practical surveying package to the minerals industry.

Personnel have extensive experience in the minerals sector (both surface and underground) and a practical understanding of operators' requirements.

PSS provides services relating to routine operational requirements, for example face setting out, volumetric analysis, phasing design, tip design, slope modeling, screening design etc. Planning related services available include the use of satellite aerial photographs and 3-dimensional digital data to provide accurate visualisations of proposed developments enabling potential impacts to be assessed and appropriate mitigating screening works to be designed in.

In compliance with the requirements of the Quarries Regulations 1999, PSS can produce quarry topographic survey plans, operational phase drawings, geological cross-sections and full geotechnical apparaisals and assessments.

Zones of visual influence (ZVIs) and line of sight sections are readily produced enabling appropriate screening works, operational limits, impacts and mitigation designs to be accurately defined.

For surface operations using LSS software and our in-house geological, geotechnical and operational planning expertise PSS can provide accurate phasing models for minerals extraction proposals from initial void formation to final restoration.

With reflectorless laser scanning techniques PSS can provide accurate excavation face detail for geological and geotechnical slope stability assessment and modeling purposes.

For underground operations PSS has the capabilities to produce 3D underground mine layout plans – actual and proposed, with superimposed geology.