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Mine Action Services

Mine Action Services
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Mando mine action breather new life into unsafe ENVIRONMENTS
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Mine Removals focus on the detection, removal, and disposal of landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), and other explosive remnants of war (ERW).

These services play a critical role in ensuring safety in regions affected by past conflicts, restoring land for civilian use, and preventing casualties. The process involves a combination of specialized technology, expertise, and coordination with local authorities and international organizations.

Mine Detection Services
focus on locating and identifying landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) to ensure safe access to contaminated areas and support humanitarian demining efforts.
  • Utilizes metal detectors, ground-penetrating radar (GPR), and drones to identify buried explosives
  • Conducts surveys and mapping of hazardous areas to prioritize and plan safe clearance operations
  • Provides training for personnel on how to safely identify, handle, and report mines and UXOs.
mines and uxO survey
Mando mine action site investigation service offers a wide range of survey technologies for the location of buried uxo, depending on the site characteristics, the type of the ordnance and the target depth of the investigation.
Removal of identified mines and UXO by Excavation Method

The full area excavation technique is where the whole area that needs to be cleared is excavated by manual deminers to a specified depth to ensure that all mines within the area to the specified depth are found and re-moved.

The full area excavation technique should be used in sand, soft soil or in areas where water is available to soften the ground. a hand trowel or scraping tool is used to remove the soil in front of the deminer’s base stick to a minimum depth of 15 cm and to a minimum width of 1.2 meter.

The front edge of the clearance lane will be a trench (depth and width as above) which will move slowly forward by the continual removal of the front layer of the soil. mines will be located by being struck gently on their sides with the digging tool.

    • metal detector detection

    A
    Visually and manually inspect the area in front of the Base Stick for tripwires, UXO, surface-laid mines, protruding fuses or suspicious objects
    B
    Using a tripwire feeler to search for tripwires if the mine- field is covered by vegetation
    C
    Clear vegetation as required, using a small pruning tool or garden shears
    D
    Carry out controlled sweeps with a metal detector over the entire width of the clearance lane and forward to a maximum of 50 cm. Ensure that the search epicenter of the detector covers the full width, but no more, of the Base Stick width. Care must be taken to ensure that the detector head is not al- lowed to move into any area not previously inspected in accordance with sub-paragraph a & b, above
    E
    If the detector gives no signal, move the base-stick forward a maximum of 50 cm with 10 cm overlap and repeat the pro- cess from sub paragraph (a)
    F
    Lane marking is to be placed at a maximum every lm, as the clearance lane progresses and is to be placed at each end of the red painted Im spacing on the base stick and not outside the white 10cm overlap. Thereby creating a 1m wide marked cleared lane
    G
    If the detector gives a signal, mark 15 cm or half of the detector's search head on the safe side of the signal with a mine-marker and use a manual prodder to locate the source of the signal. Once the object is located, a hand-trowel or similar tool is used to excavate the earth sufficiently to reveal its identity
    H
    If a mine or UXO is uncovered and specified a mine marker shall be placed close the object on the safe side of the object. The deminer will stop mine clearance in this lane and notify the team leader/supervisor
    I
    The team leader/supervisor shall identify the mine and/or UXO and he/she shall do one of the following:
    • Task the deminer to close the lane and to start a new lane. Leaving the mine/UXO for disposal later in the day.
    Stop clearance activities on the clearance worksite, with- draw all the deminers to a safe distance and dispose of the mine/UXO
    J
    All other metal objects found should be collected in the de- miners' pouch/bucket and delivered to the metal collection point at the completion of the deminers' shift or as required