MineARC is an industry-leading innovator in the supply and manufacture of life-sustaining products for emergency scenarios, such as refuge chambers. Their latest innovation is the SiriUS-LUX cap lamp, which includes gas monitoring capabilities to improve the safety of underground personnel by detecting harmful gasses like CO. The cap lamp is lightweight, user-friendly, and cost-effective, and includes various alarms to notify the wearer of any harmful gasses in the immediate environment.

MineARC's SiriUS-LUX Cap Lamp: A World-First Innovation Combining Lighting and Gas Monitoring for Enhanced Safety in Mining and Petrochemical Industries.

MineARC, an Australian-based company established in 1999, prides itself on being an industry-leading innovator in the supply and manufacture of life-sustaining products designed for emergency scenarios. From humble beginnings, the company has grown to have over 3000 MineARC Chambers in the field, in 68 countries, across the Mining, Petrochemical, and Tunnelling industries. Over 50,000 people rely on their products every day to keep them safe from potential hazards in the workplace.

One of the major concerns in underground mining is the growing number of fatalities due to CO gas, which is odorless and essentially a silent killer. Personnel are often exposed to harmful gases, like CO, because proper early-warning systems are not utilized. This not only puts individuals' lives at risk but also the lives of personnel or rescue team members who attempt to assist the initial casualty, who as a result end up being unintentionally exposed to the harmful gases themselves.

MineARC's latest innovation, the SiriUS-LUX Cap Lamp with gas monitoring capabilities, is engineered to the highest quality to create a cost-effective and convenient solution for all mining personnel. With the new addition of a CO early-warning system, it offers a non-intrusive solution to further safeguard the lives of personnel, while allowing sites to monitor the gas levels through built-in detection and data logging features.

The SiriUS-LUX cap lamp range is more than just a lighting source. It is specially designed to improve efficiency and visibility to ensure safe operations and is available in corded and semi-corded options. The cap lamp range provides a quality and reliable lighting solution with enhanced features such as combining dual beams, along with superior color rendering and a robust design. The unique battery design allows for gas tracking to take place without compromising the overall duration of the lamp. The cap lamp makes use of various tiered alarm systems to notify the wearer of any harmful gases that may disperse in the immediate environment. This includes an audible alarm, vibrations, and visual flashing, all of which increase in frequency depending on how strong the gas in the immediate environment is.

In addition to gas monitoring, the cap lamp also has the ability to log the data relating to the gas levels captured. For sites where IoT and personnel tracking are not implemented, the cap lamps can easily be plugged into a desktop or laptop to gain the gas-monitored information that has been logged. For sites that have underground IoT and personnel tracking implemented, the SiriUS-LUX with tracking is an important part of MineARC's GuardIAN IoT network, and its acceptance within the industry will lead to further sales in their tracking nodes and other monitoring equipment.

The growth of MineARC's market share within the mining industry globally is their number one indicator for success. With a wide range of cap lamp choices, from the economy level SiriUS (yellow lamp) to the top of the line SiriUS-LUX with tracking and gas monitoring (green or orange lamp), MineARC aims to become an industry standard. MineARC's commitment to innovation and safety continues to lead the way forward in improving the safe working conditions for all underground personnel.