Yeah, mind you the Giga is quite a jump over Mega (see the reference I gave above on mining applications), so I'm not entirely sure I trust the update.
For context, Rio Tinto operations in Mt. Newman are mining iron ore from near surface open pit | mesa deposits; blasting rock with minimal crushing to fit in rail carriages for transport to the ocean ports where ore is crushed smaller, screened and graded (blended) for shipping overseas .. in total some 850 million tonne per annum of iron ore from that region (not just Newman alone).
I'm guessing the guage is for estimating ore density | grade on the fly as rocks tumble through the load out (from the remote operated semi autonomous near robot trucks) into kilometre+ long robot trains.
Considering they still haven't found it
Yeah, I'm very surprised the search is still on, I'm leaning towards it's well off route in a tire in a truck (or already fallen free) OR some heavily tatted FiFo worker (fly in | fly out) nicked it as a souvenir for the local bikkie clubhouse and hasn't came home from a holiday in Thailand yet .. .
Radon: IIRC there are additions in the Australian AGSO radiometric processing guidelines re: radon removal that derived from work I did levelling out radon smearing back in the 1990s - somewhat out of date these days, but hey, that's the world for you.
There are also potential modifications to the work by Brian Minty | Jens Hovgaard | Bob Grasty using an NASVD to firstly highlight the use of Radon eigenvectors and then to rotate them out of the signal space in the processing pipeline.
I'm guessing (completely w/out context) that perhaps your friend is moving down that path (or perhaps well past and elsewhere, as I said, it's been a while).
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Yeah, mind you the Giga is quite a jump over Mega (see the reference I gave above on mining applications), so I'm not entirely sure I trust the update.
For context, Rio Tinto operations in Mt. Newman are mining iron ore from near surface open pit | mesa deposits; blasting rock with minimal crushing to fit in rail carriages for transport to the ocean ports where ore is crushed smaller, screened and graded (blended) for shipping overseas .. in total some 850 million tonne per annum of iron ore from that region (not just Newman alone).
I'm guessing the guage is for estimating ore density | grade on the fly as rocks tumble through the load out (from the remote operated semi autonomous near robot trucks) into kilometre+ long robot trains.
Yeah, I'm very surprised the search is still on, I'm leaning towards it's well off route in a tire in a truck (or already fallen free) OR some heavily tatted FiFo worker (fly in | fly out) nicked it as a souvenir for the local bikkie clubhouse and hasn't came home from a holiday in Thailand yet .. .
Radon: IIRC there are additions in the Australian AGSO radiometric processing guidelines re: radon removal that derived from work I did levelling out radon smearing back in the 1990s - somewhat out of date these days, but hey, that's the world for you.
There are also potential modifications to the work by Brian Minty | Jens Hovgaard | Bob Grasty using an NASVD to firstly highlight the use of Radon eigenvectors and then to rotate them out of the signal space in the processing pipeline.
I'm guessing (completely w/out context) that perhaps your friend is moving down that path (or perhaps well past and elsewhere, as I said, it's been a while).