SPT North Seeking Gyro locates surviving trapped miner
Stockholm Precision Tools is proud to announce that SPT North-Seeking Gyroscope Survey instrument made a great contribution to the industry and society on August 22nd 2010, by helping to find surviving miners after 17 days underground at a Chilean mine near the northern city of Copiapó.
On August 5th an area blocking the mine escape route collapsed and 33 miners were trapped nearly 700m underground inside San Jose gold and copper mine. Under this extreme circumstances, being able to obtain the real azimuth (bore hole direction) is of the uttermost importance, that is why SPT North-Seeking Gyro was used in the survey operations, which successfully helped the mine and rescue team to fast and effectively locate the surviving miners.
Felipe Matthews Rojas, manager of our customer company GeoAtacama Consultores Ltda, involved in the survey operations in Chile, remarked: “Had not been for the exceptional precision of SPT equipment, it would had been impossible to find the 33 trapped miners”.
The certainty that SPT equipment will deliver timely and precise downhole survey data under the most adverse circumstances is the reason why many mines around the world trust Stockholm Precision Tools North Seeking Gyroscope.
There follows below some photos of the survey operations provided by GeoAtacama Consultores Ltda:
