Monday, September 28, 2009

LIM targets West African mining sector

LIM Instrumentation and LIM Logging Services have officially launched a range of technological products into the West African mining and quarry industry.

The products are targeted at exploration, drilling, construction and mining companies.

The equipment which are being used in South America, South Africa and other mining and quarry countries have been designed to save time, cost and provide accurate geological information.

The products which are being used in exploring minerals such as gold ,diamond, copper among others include, pocket 5G, core imaging, archiving scan, acoustic borehole imager, as well as, optical borehole imager.

Mr. Pierre de Groulard, Director, Commercial Sales Manager, LIM Instrument, making a presentation to geological experts from the mining and quarry sector in the West African sub region explained that the instruments are meant to provide real-time information on-site for mines, quarries, tunnels, underground works and for geotechnical studies.

He explained that the core scanner provides digital images using high quality imaging system and data acquisition modules and accompanying software.

This allows archiving a perfect drilling without loosing the original core drilled, which enhances future audit of drilled holes by investors with ease.

The instrument provides the market a leading technology in the area of software developments such as geo-log software which improves borehole logs and profiles.

Mr. Serge Laurent, Logging Sales Manager of the company indicated that the optical borehole imager is specifically designed to aid geological communication.

Its precision wide-angle lens and camera permits a high definition video image of the boreholes wall to be captured in a variety of horizontal and vertical resolution.

The resulting image is digitized in the sound and combined with the orientation data for transmission to the surface.
“LIM Logging provides a complete range of geophysical logs for maximum borehole data collection. Logging solutions provided include: Natural Gamma, Normal Focused resistivity, Induction Conductivity, Magnetic Susceptibility and borehole IP, Borehole deviation, Optical/Acoustic borehole imaging, and Environmental monitoring probes and accessories,” he said.

LIM was incorporated in 1985 in France under the trademark MIG GEOSOFT®.
It designs, manufacture, as well as, marketing of measurement electronic equipment and associated software specialized for mines and quarry drilling as well as special foundations, underground works and geotechnics.

The company is aimed at providing to its clients one solution of complete instrumentation. This integrates a new technology going from the sensor to the processing software. Different measurement instruments are available according to the application.

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