Coeur Kensington Revolutionizes Production Workflow with FaceCapture
At a Glance
Coeur Mining uses FaceCapture in its Kensington Mine, an underground gold mine in Southeast Alaska, to implement a fully digital, data-driven workflow, resulting in optimized planning, and daily orebody modeling.
Our MVS system has elevated every part of our geology work—mapping, interpretations, and block modeling—bringing an accuracy and confidence we’re truly excited about.
Rae Keim
Technical Services Manager
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DownloadSituation
- Outdated, imprecise, paper-based mapping
- Manual processing and analysis
- Limited survey frequency in production headings
- Need for georeferenced geology data and position information
- Data collection and the end-of-heading-life
Solutions
- Implemented FaceCapture in 2025
- Fully digital geologic data collection
- Collected scans in every production heading, every shift
- Integrated digital production data to modeling platforms on a per-shift basis
Benefits
- Significant reduction in face and geologic mapping time
- Optimized planning for lateral headings and stopes
- Provides real-time face positioning against the mine plan and orebody model, offering supplemental geolocation between survey pickups—without requiring surveyor measurement.
- Expanding FaceCapture program to 2 more sites in 2025
- Georeferenced channel samples for up to the shift modeling