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Generating Production Scenarios

Relying on Dassault Systèmes’ Delmia production simulation tool, which can create 3D models of specific, discrete events, the company developed thousands of scenarios to visualise how equipment would move and interact under various mine designs.

Using Simulation to Complete Advanced Geotechnical Analyses

Block caving requires a very large deposit, with sufficient height and footprint area, to be cost effective. It should also ideally include certain geotechnical characteristics, such as pre-existing rock fractures to speed fragmentation and enough rock mass strength to support extraction tunnels.

Integrating Parametric Design with Mine Planning

To make integration simple, Process Composer eliminates the need for a designer to manually transfer the parameters and results from the parametric design into a mine planning package. Instead, it works with PCBC to handle the output variables of the design as input variables for the mine plan, allowing for an automated workflow throughout the entire mine planning process and between multiple applications/software.

How to Improve Block Caving Design and Planning: The Secret is Automation and Simulation

Using Dassault Systèmes’ parametric design tool, which enables mines to virtually create, update, and analyse a design within their own operating environment, the copper company’s designer used a number of different inputs to accommodate larger LHDs.

Navigating the Future of the Metals Industry in India

India’s metals industry is transforming through technology, sustainability, and policy shifts. Explore the key trends shaping its future.

A New, More Strategic, Way to Mine

Mine planning concentrates on long-range production planning aimed at maximising the value derived from exploiting an ore deposit. However, by its very nature, because it is long-term, a mine plan can be affected by a variety of internal and external forces including, for example, increased knowledge of the orebody, unexpected staffing issues, technical advancements ,and changes in legislation, economy, and market.

How AI can Enhance your Resource Modeling

Machine learning is a branch of AI that uses data and algorithms to learn the way humans learn: by doing a task over and over and using our experience of doing that task to become better at it.

Q&A: How GEOVIA is Reimagining Mining Efficiency

The mining industry is on the cusp of a digital revolution. GEOVIA, a company with a long history in 3D design and geological modeling, is at the forefront of this change. By leveraging the power of parametric design and virtual twins, GEOVIA is helping mines operate more efficiently and sustainably. Company CEO, Mauro DELLEMONACHE explains how this technology is transforming the way mines operate, from reducing environmental impact to optimizing resource extraction.