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October 2022 | Newsletter

Welcome to this edition of the GeoGroup newsletter. In this issue, we look at: Drill Site With a View - Hout Bay Euro Trip 2022 | New Technologies & New Possibilities IVECO #thankyoutrucker Competition To read the full edition, ...

Connected To You | EMA 2022

This year, our Terra Monitoring team represented the Group at the Electra Mining Africa 2022 Expo. We were able to showcase all of our services and new products, and the visitors got to meet many of the Terra Monitoring and GeoGroup management team members. The expo hosted 30,196 visitors with attendees from 57 various countries. All-in-all, it was a huge success and the team w ...

Celebrating Our Heritage

In celebration of Heritage Day, this month, we are taking a trip down memory lane. Let’s look at some of the highlights over the past 33 years. In 1989, the late Dave Rossiter started Geomechanics CC to service the geotechnical drilling and testing market. In this picture we see Dave operating the drill rig. Dave's brother-in-law, Barry Kruger, holding Dave's son, Brett Rossite ...

Prevention Is Better Than Cure

The recent tailings dam failure at the Jagersfontein Diamond mine, in the Free State Province of South Africa, was yet another eye-opener globally as to why the safety at waste facilities should be taken more seriously. In 2019, we also witnessed the catastrophic failure of the tailings dam at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine, 9 kilometres east of Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, B ...