“It used to take more than a week for four survey crew members working about 96 hours to cover all our pits, quarries and stockpiles. My guys had to physically walk around with GPS/ RTK equipment to take measurements, which was dangerous and took a long time.”

“If we didn’t have the drone technology right now, we would have to spend half a million dollars on equipment just to fulfil the requirements of the mine. In three years alone [since implementing drone technology], we have managed to reduce the budget of the survey department by 25-30 percent …