Adam North, Senior Client Executive Dassault Systèmes & Rohit Prabhu Industry Process Expert, Senior Specialist, Dassault Systèmes

The need to stay profitable under growing regulatory scrutiny makes performance and resilience central to mining. The sector is defined by extremes: intensive energy use, volatile commodity markets, and constant pressure to deliver results. Across exploration, hauling, crushing, and processing, energy consumption is both one of the industry’s largest cost drivers and its biggest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

As regulations tighten and stakeholders demand transparency, emission reconciliation is increasingly essential. But its impact extends far beyond compliance. By embedding reconciliation into daily operations, mining companies can strengthen performance, resilience, and long-term competitiveness.

Performance gains come from greater visibility into energy use, equipment efficiency, and emissions hotspots. Resilience comes from anticipating regulatory shifts, adapting to stakeholder expectations, and maintaining continuity in the face of environmental and financial pressures.

Emission Reconciliation as a Core Pillar of Operations

Dassault Systèmes’ Mine Operations Management (MOM) solution demonstrates how emission reconciliation can serve as a performance and resilience engine. Traditionally focused on material reconciliation, operational control, and asset performance, MOM now integrates emission reconciliation as a fourth pillar.

This integration ensures that emissions data is captured alongside production data, rather than in isolated spreadsheets. It means that operational decisions — whether about fleet scheduling, equipment replacement, or energy sourcing — can be evaluated through both productivity and sustainability lenses.

How MOM Makes Emission Reconciliation Easier

Dassault Systèmes’ Mine Operations Management (MOM) solution offers specific features that make emission reconciliation and meeting sustainability mandates easier compared to traditional tools.

• Compliance reporting: Generate reports aligned with global reporting standards for transparent and reliable disclosure.
• Year-on-year insights: Track and compare energy use and emissions over time to monitor progress and identify trends.
• Configurable equipment data: Define mining equipment in the system to account for energy consumption variations, enhancing the accuracy of carbon emissions reporting.
• Advanced analytics: Break down energy and emissions data by activity, purpose, equipment, or source by using flexible filters, such as scope, type, among others.
• Global regulatory alignment: Import emission factors based on national or regional regulations to ensure global compliance and scalability.

From Reporting to Real-Time Operational Insight

One of the biggest limitations of traditional reporting is its retrospective nature. Reports are compiled months after activity has occurred, leaving little opportunity to address inefficiencies in real time. MOM changes that equation.

By capturing emissions data at the transactional level, companies can measure the impact of each activity. For example:

• A haul truck moving ore up a steep ramp can be tracked for higher diesel consumption compared to idling.
• Equipment powered by grid electricity can be linked to state-specific emission factors.
• Hybrid equipment, configured to reflect both diesel and electricity inputs, can provide accurate emissions profiles.

Granularity allows managers to identify hotspots as they occur. Instead of waiting for annual disclosures, companies can take immediate action, redirecting workloads, adjusting fuel use, or rebalancing fleet assignments.

Building Business Resilience Through Data

Resilience in mining is not only about meeting regulatory requirements; it is about strengthening the ability to withstand disruptions, maintain continuity, and reduce long-term risks. Emission reconciliation contributes to resilience in several ways:

• Audit-ready traceability: Emission factors and energy constants, sourced from national and international standards, are embedded in the system with references stored for verification. This reduces compliance risk and builds trust with regulators and investors.
• Year-on-year tracking: Dashboards highlight whether emissions are trending downward as intended or rising due to output. This feedback loop helps keep long-term sustainability targets on track.
• Flexible integration: MOM connects seamlessly with ERP systems, fleet management platforms, and OEM data feeds. This adaptability ensures reconciliation reflects real-world operations and evolves with new systems or regulatory frameworks.

Resilience, in other words, is not just about compliance, it is about adaptability.

Enhancing Performance at Every Stage of the Value Chain

Emission reconciliation also drives performance improvements across mining’s value chain:

• Exploration and development: Early insights into energy intensity support more efficient resource allocation.
• Hauling and transport: Transaction-level emissions tracking highlights opportunities to optimize routes, balance loads, or replace high-consumption trucks.
• Crushing and processing: Analytics dashboards reveal when equipment consumes more energy than expected, enabling proactive maintenance or upgrades.
• Reclamation: Post-mining activities can be monitored for energy efficiency, ensuring sustainability commitments are met even after production ends.

By linking emissions data with activity data, mining companies gain a holistic view of performance, enabling both cost reductions and lower carbon intensity.

Dashboards as a Resilience Tool

Performance without visibility is guesswork. MOM’s dashboards transform data into actionable insight by visualizing emissions across key dimensions: activity, equipment type, emission source, and purpose. Filters allow managers to drill down by site, specific equipment, type of energy, emissions scope, timeframe and align analysis with regulatory requirements or operational goals.

For resilience, dashboards also provide trend analysis by comparing emissions year on year. For instance, they may show that drilling emissions decreased due to newer rigs, while hauling emissions rose because of higher throughput. These insights allow companies to adjust quickly, maintaining both environmental and financial resilience.

Strengthening Stakeholder Confidence

Resilience is not only about operations; it is also about relationships. Mining companies operate under the scrutiny of regulators, investors, customers, and communities. Transparent, auditable emission reconciliation strengthens trust with all these groups.

Regulators gain confidence that disclosures are accurate and verifiable. Investors see robust ESG data that reduces perceived climate risk.

Communities and employees see clear evidence of sustainability commitments. This stakeholder trust is itself a form of resilience, helping companies maintain their license to operate in an increasingly sustainability-driven world.

How Dassault Systèmes’ MOM Helps Deliver Value

Dassault Systèmes’ MOM solution simplifies and automates sustainability mandate compliance while helping bolster resilience. In doing so it delivers the following key benefits:

• Saves time with pre-built, ready-to-use reports.
• Improves visibility: Easily identify emission hotspots and filter actionable insights.
• Helps adapt quickly to change: Keep systems up to date with emission factors and stay compliant with regulatory updates.
• Enables continuous improvement: Support strategic planning and find new opportunities for ongoing improvements.
• Enhances efficiency and reduce costs: Optimize energy use, reduce costs and enable better resource allocation through granular analysis.

The mining sector’s decarbonization journey will span decades. Yet building resilience while maintaining profitability is crucial now. Companies need tools that deliver immediate performance improvements while preparing them for long-term transformation.

Emission reconciliation meets this need. It creates a feedback loop where operational data informs sustainability action, and sustainability performance strengthens operational resilience. It allows companies to optimize energy use today while modeling low-carbon strategies for tomorrow.

The mining industry’s resilience and performance depend on its ability to manage risks, adapt to change, and deliver value in a sustainability-driven era. In this context, emission reconciliation is more than a reporting tool, it is a performance and resilience enabler. Ultimately, by embedding emissions tracking into operational systems through Dassault Systèmes’ Mine Operations Management, mining companies can enhance operational efficiency and reduce risk and build flexibility into their systems and strategies while future-proofing operations against regulatory and market shocks. In addition, miners can strengthen trust with regulators, investors, and communities – all key to sustainable and profitable operations.