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According to Mining News Pro - "We will be able to combine the solutions and capabilities … to further enhance the value that we can deliver to our customers by offering a much broader range of product and services option," he added.

Peck Tech CEO Jonathan Peck said the companies are already aligned in many areas; this includes a common future vision regarding LiDAR and optical based 3-D mobile mapping solutions.

"The broad suite of advanced solutions that will result will deliver significant productivity and safety benefits and choices to both our underground and open-pit mining customers," he said.

MVS is an industry-funded spin-off of the Carnegie Mellon University`s National Robotics Engineering Center in Pennsylvania, US. Its operations deliver mobile mapping hardware, software and services for integrated geometric and visual analyses from a range of vertical, sub-vertical and horizontal developments, including ventilation shafts, conveyance shafts, ore-passes, ramps, production drifts and stopes.

Peck Tech Consulting provides advanced sensing, monitoring, control and automation consulting services and products, including the uGPS RapidMapper solution for 3-D mobile localisation and mapping for underground operations.

The companies have not confirmed an effective date for the partnership.