Thiess Rehabilitation is focused on the next step in the mining process: land returned to a sustainable state. As their website states, it "may not be the core business of a mine operation, but it is the final legacy".

Thiess Rehabilitation focuses on building sustainable landscapes using the latest innovations and technology available. Two such innovations: a SafeSpray Vehicle System from Rapid Vehicle Systems, and the Universal Flow Tracker from Rapid Logix.

Rapid Logix aims to help operators map weeds and track chemical spraying easily while removing the need for manual reporting.

At the Health, Safety, Environment and Community Conference held in Hunter Valley, NSW in 2023, Peter York who is recognised as in industry leader and is passionate about environment performance gave a speech how Thiess Rehabilitation are using these innovations across a mine sites based in the Hunter Valley.

The Universal Flow Tracker mounted on their SafeSpray Vehicle System is working alongside another innovative company in the weed mapping space, Dendra who annually weed map their rehabilitation sites.

Once that annual weed mapping is completed, Thiess Rehabilitation weed sprayer operators then go on ground and start treating those areas with the Universal Flow Tracker on their spray guns.

With the GPS tracking system, they can then measure how much herbicide each operator is using, and using the 1, 2 or 3 weed options, their operators are also able to pin point where each weed is exactly.

Once they have completed a spraying session, they can upload the data captured into their GIS system, overlay it with the annual weed mapping data already collected, and they have a complete picture of their weed mapping rehab areas.

As Peter Says, this "bring[s] a bit of traceability and compliance to weed mapping."

Watch video below and learn how the Rapid Logix on their Rapid Vehicle Systems SafeSpray has helped streamline their weed spraying for mine rehabilitation.