Description
Conduct precise measurements above and below ground to support mine planning, development, and safety. Establish and monitor control networks, map workings and ore bodies, calculate volumes and grades, and deliver spatial data for excavation, drilling, blasting, ventilation, and regulatory compliance in surface and underground mines.
- • Prepare and maintain underground and surface mine plans, as-builts, maps, reports, and survey certificates.
- • Verify accuracy of mine survey data and calculations from underground, pit, and stockpile surveys.
- • Conduct surveys to establish and monument mineral lease boundaries, claims, easements, and mine permits.
- • Record and manage spatial data on openings, stopes, faces, benches, highwalls, dumps, and stockpiles.
- • Calculate volumes, tonnages, stripping ratios, grades, and relative positions of mine features.
- • Prepare or supervise preparation of survey control, drawings, charts, sections, 3D models, and records.
- • Write legal descriptions and plats for mineral parcels, easements, and mine survey documentation.
- • Plan and execute surface and underground control networks, traverses, and level circuits.
- • Research deeds, mineral titles, claim surveys, and historical mine records to establish boundaries.
- • Coordinate findings with mining engineers, geologists, planners, and operations on designs and schedules.
- • Calibrate and adjust total stations, laser scanners, gyros, prisms, and levels to maintain accuracy.
- • Establish and maintain control points, check shots, and backsights throughout the mine.
- • Determine coordinates and elevations using total stations, GNSS, laser scanning, and gyro-theodolites.
- • Train and oversee survey crews and spotters in mine surveying procedures and safety.
- • Analyze mine design objectives and specifications to develop survey work plans and proposals.
- • Process and compute traverses, closures, volume models, and production reconciliations from survey data.
- • Develop and standardize mine survey methods, QA/QC criteria, and data management procedures.
- • Evaluate and recommend survey instruments, scanners, drones, and software for mine applications.
- • Apply photogrammetry and LiDAR to generate pit, dump, and stockpile models and orthomosaics.
- • Stake and verify drill patterns, blast lines, toes, berms, pit limits, ramps, and dump extents.
- • Monitor highwalls, pillars, stopes, and ground movement for deformation and subsidence; report hazards.
- • Perform cavity monitoring surveys and void scans to support stope design and reconciliation.
- • Survey and align shafts, raises, conveyors, and infrastructure to design specifications.
- • Ensure surveys meet regulatory, safety, and permitting requirements; maintain auditable records.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
