Simulate, Visualize, and Evaluate the Possibilities
GEOVIA Earth Design enables mine engineers to build living, fully optimized mine plans that help ensure the mineral deposit, mine design, and life-of-mine timetable deliver the profits needed to justify your capital investment. It does this through powerful visualization tools and graphical displays that clear away the mystery and help reveal the true value of the deposit; by generating and evaluating multiple mine designs through an automated parametric process; and by creating and assessing a virtually unlimited number of scenarios to determine mine schedules that will optimize Net Present Value (NPV).
Earth Engineering Coordinator
Consolidate and federate geoscience and engineering information for seamless downstream consumption.
Earth Engineering Coordinator (ETC) keeps Geoscience & Engineering Professionals in sync of multi-discipline/multi-stakeholder geoscience data and interpretation to make better engineering decisions on the single source of truth of natural and built environments @3DEXPERIENCE® for Infrastructure.
Allowing users to ingest and visualize geoscience data in an immersive environment, to track relationships between raw and interpreted data in a structured unified referential.
Benefit
- Ingest and visualizes geoscience assets agnostic to source data format and geometry type
- Explore immersive environment through specialized navigation experience for subsurface capital project
- Track the relationship between raw data and interpretation
- Federate and structures geoscience assets under the unified referential with infrastructure engineering models
Highlights
- Manage structured and unstructured geoscience information in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform
- Unify the referential (Boreholes, geology model, aquifer) underpinning the single source of truth for infrastructure development
- Collaborate seamlessly for informed and coordinated decision making to accelerate multi-disciplinary convergence
- Drive shared and 360° insight of geoscience for de-risked and cost-effective infrastructure development
- Streamline geoscience information integration with design and simulation downstream processes
What's New
- Improved Block Model usage and user understanding by enhancing the Block Model import process with the ability to selectively import attributes.
- Single source of truth for Geoscience data attributes such as Block Model and Boreholes in the context of local storage.
- Time saving improvements when reporting Block Models, due to optimizing the underlying Block Model reporting engine’s performance.
Strategic Mine Planner
Comprehensively evaluate strategic mining plans from development to closure, implementing robust plans prioritizing economic value and ecological responsibility.
The Strategic Mine Planner role embodies the next step in mine planning. Leveraging an advanced scheduling engine, it formulates comprehensive plans that consider a myriad of both economic and technical factors. The essence of this role is its ability to generate robust strategic plans by examining critical parameters in different scenarios. These plans are optimized, reliable, and adaptable to varying conditions. Included is the capability to define parameters within multiple scenarios, ensure capacity optimization, and chart out a long-term mining strategy.
Risk management is embedded from the project's outset, ensuring potential pitfalls are identified and addressed. Furthermore, the role is designed to improve workflow efficiency, providing smooth integration across different ecosystems.
Benefit
- Define a comprehensive and robust strategic plan through multi-scenario analysis.
- Use advanced value-adding mechanisms for optimizing practical phases, ultimate pit and life of mine scheduling.
- Reduce project uncertainty via sensitivity analysis and generate realistic schedules.
- Advanced constraint modelling for sustainability variables, blending and hauling.
- Unified design and planning integration, enabled by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
Highlights
- Intuitive interface to model the technical constraints and economic parameters of the mining planning problem.
- Rapid Generation of Pit and Practical Phases.
- Modeling of complex planning problems that includes sustainability variables, blending and haulage optimization.
- Iterative review and plan updates thanks to full design and planning data associativity.
- Comprehensive tools for de-risk projects and sensitivity analysis.
- Robust, Practical, and Fast Life of Mine Scheduling.
What's New
- Improved Final Pit Evaluation considering period discount rate through Direct Block Scheduling
- Ability to improve waste management, based on the definition of dumps and their differentiated costs.
- Improved project understanding and decision making through the ability to define time related costs associated with both CAPEX and OPEX factors.
- Facilitate efficient collaboration and flexible resource modeling by enabling customizable re-blocked block models with user-defined resolutions, aggregation rules, and spatial extents.
Pit Optimizer
Enhance overall value and efficiency with comprehensive planning strategies from optimization to scheduling.
The Pit Optimizer is a platform-based Strategic Mine Planning offering used by mining engineers to generate pit and pushback optimizations as well as schedules for surface mines.
It allows a user to define solutions that maximize the Net Present Value (NPV) to the company, and to evaluate optionality in multiple optimized pushback and scheduling scenarios, thus improving the robustness of solution.
Benefit
- Define a comprehensive and robust strategic plan through multi-scenario analysis.
- Use advanced value-adding mechanisms for optimizing practical phases, ultimate pit and life of mine scheduling.
- Reduce project uncertainty via sensitivity analysis and generate realistic schedules.
- Unified design and planning integration, enabled by the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
Highlights
- Rapid Generation of Pit and Practical Phases.
- De-risking Projects with Sensitivity Analysis.
- Iterative review and plan updates thanks to full design and planning data associativity.
- Intuitive interface for easy technical constraint and economic parameter management.
- Robust, Practical, and Fast Life of Mine Scheduling.
What's New
- Facilitate efficient collaboration and flexible resource modeling by enabling customizable reblocked block models with user-defined resolutions, aggregation rules, and spatial extents.
- Improved project understanding and decision making through the ability to define time related costs associated with both CAPEX and OPEX factors.
- Ability to improve waste management, based on the definition of dumps and their differentiated costs.
Surface Mine Designer
Generate and evaluate multiple pits, ramp and waste storage facility design through an automated parametric process.
The Surface Mine Designer role encompasses the power of parametric design methodology to quickly process, edit and evaluate surface mining designs via the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
Firstly, the essence of this role is to quickly generate surface mine designs which conform to industry and safety norms and have the ability to quickly edit or update these designs when new data becomes available.
Secondly, this role involves ensuring data clarity throughout the entire lifecycle, achieved by establishing associations that allow for swift integration and propagation of necessary changes without the need for manual intervention.
Finally, parametric design allows mining engineers to evaluate different scenarios quickly and efficiently, which saves time and provides additional optionality during the development and production phases.
Benefit
- Rapid generation of multiple outcomes through parametric design offering optionality assessment and identification of optimal designs.
- Safe and technically valid pit, ramp and dump designs linked to geotechnical features.
- Significant workflow improvements and time savings through close integration with Pit Optimizer, and other simulation and operational inputs and outputs.
Highlights
- Parametric pit design with multiple design options.
- Parametric ramp design with multiple design options.
- Parametric dump design with multiple design options.
- Integration of geotechnical inputs to ensure safety and stability.
- Visualization of design outputs.
- Report generation and results analytics (tabulation and graphs).
- Generate outputs that can be easily utilized by downstream products for further definition.
What's New
- Create practical and efficient pit designs through the ability to give priority to the practicability of the ramp design.
- Create practical and efficient pit designs by improving the process that handles the small bench contours and the irrelevant toe contour expansions.
- Greater customization and flexibility if offered by providing choices in defining the ramp gradient, such as inside/outside edge adjustments.
- Improve the practicality, safety, and efficiency of surface, mine designs by automatically recognizing common zones from the previous phase design and replicating them in the next phase.
- Â Enhance design tool support for multiple phase design ensuring continuity of design elements such as ramps across phase designs.
Underground Mine Designer
Generate and evaluate multiple development designs through an automated parametric process.
The Underground Mine Designer role encompasses the power of parametric design methodology to quickly process, edit and evaluate underground mining designs via the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
Firstly, the essence of this role is to quickly generate underground mine designs which conform to industry and safety norms and have the ability to quickly edit or update these designs when new data becomes available.
Secondly, this role involves ensuring data clarity throughout the entire lifecycle, achieved by establishing associations that allow for swift integration and propagation of necessary changes without the need for manual intervention.
Finally, parametric design allows mining engineers to evaluate different scenarios quickly and efficiently, which saves time and provides additional optionality during the development and production phases.
Benefit
- Dynamic optionality assessment and flexibility of designs through rapid generation of multiple outcomes through parametric design.
- Significant time savings and data providence clarity through complete data lifecycle associativity.
- Safety by Design allowing consideration of safety standards related to underground excavations.
- Technical robustness of access and level designs linked to physical constraints and geotechnical features.
- Significant time savings and transparency through seamless process and data model continuity between different mining levels, development areas and practical access designs.
Highlights
- Parametric assessment of multiple design alternatives for secondary underground access development
- Modularized development of design components through application of predetermined profiles.
- Integration of geotechnical inputs to ensure safety and stability.
- Visualization of design outputs.
What's New
- Create safe and practical Underground Designs through the ability to constrain the view to a particular Level, and leverage the power of CATIA CAD tools to create mine designs.
GEOVIA Mine Optimization Software and Earth Design FAQ
Example of Mining optimization Strategy
A mining optimization strategy may involve the following steps:
- Resource Modeling: Create accurate geological models using advanced software to understand the ore body’s geometry and distribution.
- Mine Planning: Develop efficient mining plans by considering factors like ore grades, waste removal, and equipment selection to maximize ore recovery.
- Automation and Technology: Implement automation and digital monitoring systems for real-time data analysis, improving operational efficiency and safety.
- Environmental Mitigation: Integrate environmental safeguards such as responsible tailings management and reclamation to minimize ecological impact.
- Continuous Improvement: Regularly assess and adjust strategies based on data insights, aiming for ongoing optimization in terms of productivity, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability.
What is mining optimization?
Mining optimization is the systematic process of improving the efficiency, productivity, and sustainability of mining operations. It involves utilizing advanced technologies, data analysis, and modeling techniques to fine-tune various aspects of mining, from resource exploration and extraction to ore processing and logistics.
The primary goals of mining optimization are to minimize operational costs, reduce environmental impact, enhance safety, and maximize resource recovery, ultimately leading to increased profitability and the responsible and sustainable management of natural resources.
How can mining efficiency be improved?
Mining efficiency can be enhanced through several strategies.
Firstly, adopting advanced technologies like automation and data analytics can optimize operations by increasing accuracy and speed in tasks such as drilling, excavation, and ore processing.
Secondly, optimizing resource utilization through better planning and monitoring can reduce waste and energy consumption.
Thirdly, improving worker safety and health conditions can enhance overall productivity and reduce downtime due to accidents or health-related issues.
Lastly, investing in research and development for innovative mining techniques and equipment can lead to more efficient and sustainable mining practices, ultimately boosting productivity and reducing environmental impact.
Why Optimize mining?
Optimizing mining with software is crucial because it streamlines operations, enhances resource recovery, and reduces costs, leading to increased profitability. Furthermore, it significantly improves safety by identifying and mitigating risks, ensuring a safer work environment for miners.
Software-driven mining also promotes environmental responsibility through better waste management and sustainable practices. It enables mining companies to stay competitive by providing real-time data analysis for informed decision-making and compliance with regulations. Continuous improvement is inherent, as it allows for ongoing assessment and adjustment of strategies, ensuring long-term efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability in the mining industry.