Mine Planning Solutions

Accurate mine plans. On time.

Increase the accuracy of mine planning while maximizing your ability to respond efficiently to changing conditions with our extensive geological modeling and mine design functionality. Mining companies today are under increasing pressure to boost output from their existing mines and bring new projects online quickly. To maximize mine profitability, planners and schedulers must create mine plans that match the field as accurately as possible. Planners and schedulers must account for a staggering array of variables geological samples and data from the mine, the production capacity of each stage of the process, available equipment, machinery and manpower, customer demand and commodity prices, product cost assumptions and the health and safety of workers. The Ventyx solution for mine planning accounts for all significant variables as quickly and accurately as possible so that customer demands are met and production is optimized from mine to market.

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Improve the accuracy and efficiency of your mine planning processes. Key benefits include:

Integrated information flows between all mining activities. Optimal efficiency in mine planning operations. Streamlined engineering processes. Improved productivity. Lower mining costs through smarter use of technology and information management systems. Increased profit potential.

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Geologic Database (GDB) Store downhole survey, lithology and quality data, produce standard, summary and user-defined reports and graphically display the downhole data. GDB displays lithology, intervals, geophysics and correlation and contains specialized compositing and washability functions.

Stratmodel

Perform complex stratigraphic modeling functions including reverse faulting. Interactively manipulate 3D models including rendered displays in any orientation.

Mine Planning

Supporting custom programming and reporting, the solution provides a comprehensive mining-oriented function library including surface manipulation, gridding, transaction and spreadsheet management facilities. It also enables direct viewing of AutoCAD ESRI shape files and comprehensive plotting functionality.

Block Model

Generate 3D deposit models with interpretation of geologic data for definition of wireframe solids and export to third party optimization tools.

Dragline

Apply a variety of burden movement techniques including pre-strip, cast blasting and production dozing to simulate the execution of total pit burden removal strategies.

Drill & Blast

Use the interactive 3D CAD environment to quickly lay out an optimum blast pattern, project holes to surfaces and export hole layout reports to GPSequipped drill rigs. Drill & Blast is integrated to produce quick blast exclusion zones.

Roads

Design haul roads interactively in 3D. Determine cut and fill requirements for mass balancing and optimization. Automatically generate reports for survey and construction personnel in graphical or text formats.

Open Cut

Generate and test mine designs for short-term production operations and longterm feasibility studies. Use 3D CAD tools to visualize and graphically interact with the design at any stage.

Survey

Generate survey instructions automatically from mine plans. Input survey results from the field, recorder or field book directly into the database.

Schedule

Optimize the mining method and sequence by providing forecasts of material movement and machine activities for long- and short-term operations.

Underground

Quickly produce and test short- and long-term mine designs. Visualize and manipulate a design at any stage using MineScapes interactive 3D CAD tools. Incorporate the latest available information, i.e. recent drilling and survey

data, into the design.

Laboratory Management Solutions

Streamlined laboratory. Quality results.
Improve quality while reducing sample turnaround times with automated analytical laboratory processes including sample registration, barcode label printing, worklist generation, on-line data capture, and transfer of results. To achieve sustainable success in the marketplace, mining companies need a laboratory information management system (LIMS) built to ensure delivery of consistently high quality products. In this environment, management of product quality has become a key business imperative. To achieve quality products, mining operations require good sampling procedures, rigorous testing regimes, well controlled production processes and continuous quality control. Organizations also need quality management systems to help ensure conformity of products or services to a defined set of standards or customer expectations. Effective management of laboratories is a key element in the drive for high product quality.

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Key benefits include:

Increasing sample analysis rates. Reducing sample turnaround times. Providing real-time management information. Enabling better understanding of laboratory operations by management. Dramatically improving quality by identifying potential problems before they are reported, enabling technicians to more rapidly investigate and address these problems.

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Key features include:

Sample registration Barcode label printing Worklist generation Online data capture from a wide range of analytical instruments Automatic reporting of results Sample tracking Quality control and monitoring products against specifications using built-in statistical process control (SPC) charts Monitoring and managing the use of consumables as well as equipment calibration and maintenance schedules

Assay Management Solutions

Quality sampling and analytical data. One central solution.
Assay Management is a web-based solution that tracks and stores both analytical data and sampling protocols for all types of samples in the mining value chain even the most complex metallurgical test work samples. Designed to facilitate self service, assay management enables the business user to register samples, create dispatch paperwork (manual or electronic), track samples, and review and authorize use of analytical data receipted from the lab. It provides a consistent approach for managing all analyses across the organization including exploration, mine production, processing, environmental and water management.

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Assay Management centralizes assay-related data across the entire organization. By automating critical processes, Assay Management does the following:

Streamlines assay management across the mining enterprise and multiple internal and external laboratories. Maintains sample integrity from collection to registration and result reporting. Reduces regulatory compliance costs by providing systematic and auditable processes for handling analytical data. Clearly identifies and describes the master copy of any data, eliminating confusion as to the correct copy. Allows centralization of data management functions without loss of functionality for field offices. Facilitates analysis of QA data, enabling early problem detection and resolution. Integrates with financial systems for budget allocation, cost tracking and invoice release. Uses an SOA approach to simplify integration with enterprise information architectures.

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Assay Management manages data for all types of mining activity, including:

Grass roots exploration Exploration drilling Mine production drilling and face sampling Plant production Final product Water quality Environmental

Production Accounting Solutions

Best practice metal accounting. Plan visibility.
Ventyx solutions for production accounting provide a complete metal accounting solution designed for mining, mineral processing, smelting, and refining operations. With high levels of validation, automation and traceability, Ventyx Production Accounting helps meet the challenge of delivering reliable metal accounts on time, every time.

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Key benefits include:

Gain full visibility of metal within a processing facility. Help identify and trace unaccounted metal loss within the process. Standardize metal accounting processes across the enterprise. Help meet audit and governance requirements. Streamline metal accounting and production reporting. Increase reliability of plant performance information. Enable improved production planning and forecasting.

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Production accounting supports the adoption of best practice metal accounting and production reporting processes through streamlining all steps, including data acquisition, validation, calculation of metal accounts, sign-off and reporting. The solution provides:

Automated data take-on from production systems (e.g. weighbridges, historians, laboratory information management systems (LIMS)) System workflow to manage authorization and publishing Validation routines for identifying data with low integrity Quarantine and review/reject functionality Web log-sheets for manual data entry Data audit trails Calculation audit trails Multiple processing routines, including:

Check-in/check-out Cascading calculations Statistical data adjustment

Logistics, Sales & Marketing Solutions

The mine-to-market process. In your hands.
Optimize the tracking and logistics of mining products from their initial extraction, stockpiling, production, shipping and transportation to their eventual delivery to the customer while simplifying complex sales, marketing and invoicing processes. Access real-time information on the entire logistics chain. With Ventyx, mining organizations can maximize commercial outcomes by charting the impact of sales and providing a current view of available and upcoming supply of sellable product. Ventyx solutions for mining logistics, sales and marketing generate what-if scenarios for quick reaction to changing market conditions and optimize your sales position and revenues. The solution also provides comprehensive and integrated coverage of the logistics and sales processes for mining and mineral producers and traders.

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Key benefits include:

Track ore, concentrate and product inventories across the entire supply chain in bulk form and packaged form. Automatically calculate stockpile quality with a range of stockpile models to suit the operation. Streamline and simplify contract administration and increase management awareness of the company's commercial position. Manage product quality to meet transport schedules and contract demands. Identify and trace product quality issues early. Trace all costs associated to the logistics and commercial processes to help optimize revenue and profit.

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Inventory Management Product supply chain functionality lets users track quality and quantity from and Tracking the ground to shipment and beyond; covers a variety of materials including coal, ores, concentrates and semi-refined and refined products (discrete units); and tracks and optimizes blending.

Transportation

Modeling and scheduling of trucks, ships, trains and barges including a range of detailed features such as complex traffic handling, equipment and transport delay management, containerization, ship line-up and transport-

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Sales and Marketing Desk

Comprehensive management of complex contracts including purchase, sales, freight and service contracts, product specifications, complex pricing conditions and intercompany contracts. Manages assay exchange, demurrage and despatch, prepayment, and provisional and final invoicesall with configurable workflow.

Planning and Scheduling

Complex supply and demand planning tool and blending planning.

Risk Management

Management of futures and derivatives markets, positions and hedging of physical operations, mark-to-market, effectiveness tests and accounting.

Reporting

From configurable web dashboards to billboards and charting, intelligent reports give pricing profiles, cash and revenue forecasts and revaluations with configurable alerts.