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GEOTECHNICAL
A repeatable capture and ground control workflow that produces a current surface on your cadence, in the format you already sign off.
FROM CONSULTATION TO First Flight
Candrone does not sell equipment and step back. We build the workflow around how your site already runs, so the output arrives in the format your survey and engineering teams already use.
TELL US ABOUT YOUR OPERATION
Pit size, survey cadence, reporting deadlines, who runs the data today, and what the deliverable has to feed.
GET A RECOMMENDATION
A configuration matched to your ground and your reporting cycle, not a catalogue page.
RECEIVE YOUR SYSTEM
Aircraft, payload, ground control and processing, configured and tested before it reaches site.
ONGOING SUPPORT
Training for the people who will run it, a support path when something goes wrong mid-cycle, and the same people on the other end of the phone in year three.
CLOSING LINE
First flight is not the finish line. It is the point where the relationship starts doing most of its work.
SOLUTIONS BUILT FOR THE People
WHO RUN THE SITE.
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MINE SAFETY AND COMPLIANCE
Repeat capture and comparison against your own baseline, so highwall and slope condition is visible between scheduled surveys.
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ENVIRONMENTAL AND TAILINGS COMPLIANCE
A consistent monitoring cadence and a record built to the same standard every cycle, in your existing reporting format.
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OPERATIONS AND PRODUCTION MANAGERS
Stockpile volumes produced inside your reporting cycle, reconcilable against the mill and defensible six months later.
SURVEY MORE OFTEN WITHOUT
SURVEYING Differently.
Drones make surveying work at your mine safer, cheaper, and a lot faster without compromising on accuracy.
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A current surface between scheduled survey cycles
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Volumes available inside the reporting cycle, not after it
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Change detection against your own baseline
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Your existing survey and engineering workflow,
fed rather than replaced -
No change to who signs off the survey
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No new reporting format for your team to learn
01 STOCKPILE VOLUMETRICS
Repeatable volumes on a cadence that matches your reporting cycle, with ground control that makes the number defensible six months later.
02 PIT AND HIGHWALL SURVEY
Current surfaces for planning, and change detection against your baseline between scheduled captures.
03 TAILINGS AND ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
A monitoring record built on a consistent cadence, in a format your environmental reporting already uses.
EQUIPMENT PACKAGES FOR EVERY
Mining OPERATION
Every package is configured for your workflow. Financing available on all packages.
ENTRY SURVEY PACKAGE
Teams starting a drone survey program: stockpile volume estimation, pit progress monitoring, orthophoto creation.
- DJI Matrice 4E (M4E): rugged, all-weather mapping drone
- DJI Terra: mapping & 3D modelling software
- DJI D-RTK 3 Multifunctional Station: GNSS base station with tripod
- GCP Targets Kit: ties survey to design coordinates
- Compatible with Trimble, Carlson, most mining survey platforms
- Intro to Photogrammetry Course
PLUG & PLAY LIDAR PACKAGE
Teams needing accurate stockpile volumes, pit wall mapping, and haul road grading verification.
- DJI Zenmuse L3: simultaneous RGB + LiDAR capture
- DJI Terra and Modify: LiDAR and Point Cloud Creation
- Emlid RS4 base/rover: GNSS positioning kit
- GCP Targets Kit: ties survey to design coordinates
- Intro to LiDAR Course
- Optional: AP100 Parachute, BVLOS/remote-ops recovery (M400 only)
- Outputs: DTM/DEM, stockpile volumes, pit wall for slope analysis
MOST POPULAR
PRECISION SURVEY & VOLUMETRICS PACKAGE
Professional mining operations requiring survey-grade accuracy, dense point clouds and precise stockpile/pit volumetrics.
- DJI Zenmuse L3: simultaneous RGB + LiDAR capture (GeoCue TrueView 1 vB or TrueView 539 if they don't want DJI)
- DJI Matrice 400: enterprise mapping platform
- Emlid RS4 base/rover: GNSS positioning kit
- GCP Targets Kit: ties survey to design coordinates
- GeoCue LP360 Drone + AI Ground+: automated ground/terrain classification
- Outputs: DTM/DEM, stockpile volumes, pit wall/slope analysis
- Optional: AP100 Parachute, BVLOS/remote-ops recovery (M400 only)
- Advanced LiDAR Course
AUTONOMOUS STOCKPILE MONITORING PACKAGE
Continuous, scheduled stockpile and pit monitoring without a pilot on site. Daily volumetric reporting on autopilot.
- DJI Dock 3: automated docking station, scheduled unmanned flights
- DJI Matrice 4D: dock-compatible mapping drone
- DJI FlightHub 2: fleet management & mission scheduling
- AVSS PRS-M4DT: parachute recovery system
- DJI Terra (Standard): point cloud & volumetric processing
- Outputs: DTM/DEM, stockpile volumes, pit wall for slope analysis
- Intro to Photogrammetry Course
NDAA-COMPLIANT PACKAGE
For customers whose contract, agency, or internal policy requires a fully NDAA-compliant platform and sensor stack. Pilot-operated — no NDAA-compliant dock currently available through Candrone.
- Freefly Astro Map + Pilot Pro: High-Resolution Mapping Drone Kit
- Emlid RS4 base/rover: GNSS positioning kit
- IF800 Blue Herelink + Sentera 65R Bundle
- Paired with GeoCue TrueView sensors + LP360 (AI Ground+), NDAA end to end: TV1 NDAA or TrueView 651 NDAA
- GCP Targets Kit: ties survey to design coordinates
CHANGE DETECTION AND Slope Movement
Repeat capture on a set cadence, compared automatically against your own baseline, so surface change on benches and highwalls shows up as part of the routine rather than at the next scheduled survey. Configured with your processing software and your existing baseline, run by your team.
LiDAR for Mining
A practical training course built for mining teams, covering capture, processing and deliverable production for volumes, surfaces and change detection. Online and self-paced, with a year of access.
Get StartedMEET YOUR MINING Specialists
Serguei
Serguei specializes in drone-based infrastructure inspection. He helps inspection teams select the right technology, develop skills through training, and integrate drone workflows into existing operations. Holding a Transport Canada Advanced RPAS certificate, Serguei is passionate about making drone technology accessible and practical. He takes pride in helping clients grow, supporting them from their first equipment purchase to building and expanding successful programs.
Mustafa
With over 10 years of experience in mining and heavy industry, Mustafa bridges technical expertise and business strategy to help clients solve complex challenges. A Mining Engineer by training, he brings a consultative, field-focused approach to developing practical solutions and fostering strong, lasting customer partnerships.
With good field practice, drone volumes typically land within about 1–3% of a conventional GNSS- or total-station survey on the same stockpile. On irregular piles, the drone result is often the more accurate of the two.
The contractors are expected to process their own data. They can contract Candrone out if they need to but typically it's the contractor.
Winter flights are no different than summer flights when it comes to how the drone operates. The only difference is that the ground, depending on where you are, may have snow cover, which needs to be taken into effect. Typically it's not recommended to fly a stockpile or a volume survey in the winter if there is snow cover.
Typical deliverables depend on what software is being used. If the client is using DJI Terra, they will get a point cloud, a contour file, a digital elevation model, and an ortho photo, which can be put into any type of software after the fact.
Training can be anything from a couple of hours to a couple of days. It's an online thing or we can do it in person. This is a very ambiguous question.
If an aircraft goes down mid-season, Candrone has the opportunity for rentals.
Speak to our finance team!
The Candrone team is always here to help answer questions after purchase.
The Candrone team is quite small so usually you will be dealing with the same person. We typically do not like passing customers around..
READY FOR A CURRENT SURFACE Every Cycle?
Tell us about your operation and we will come back with a configuration and a quote. Then we stay with it.
- Response within 1 business day
- Configuration matched to your ground and your reporting cycle
- No obligation
- The same specialist through the life of the account
