Discipline · Earth Resources Management
Design, model, simulate and oversee the sustainable use of the Earth’s resources.
GEOVIA Earth Resources Management helps geoscientists, earth engineers and urban planners design, model, simulate and oversee the sustainable use and re-use of natural resources, whether they are surface or subsurface mineral deposits, or city trees, watersheds and parks. Responsible development requires decisions that balance economic, environmental and social considerations, and well-informed decisions require tried-and-tested tools, such as virtual twinning and simulation, that ensure accurate resource definition, reliable yet flexible plans and schedules, and trustworthy end-of-life strategies. In mining, two products carry the discipline: GEOVIA Whittle for strategy and GEOVIA MineSched for tactics.
Two products
Whittle for the strategy, MineSched for the schedule.
Each product has Benefits and Highlights from its product description, and the newest capabilities from recent releases.
GEOVIA Whittle
The world’s most trusted strategic mine planning software, used to determine and optimise the economics of open pit projects from scoping to closure.
Benefits
- Used across the value chain: exploration, scoping, pre-feasibility, feasibility, bankable feasibility and in-production mines.
- Understand the potential value of the deposit and target areas for further analysis.
- Understand economic viability, capital investment options and development strategies; identify the preferred strategy and expected NPV.
- Calculate sensitivities to build a risk-reduction strategy; analyse return on investment and investment risk.
Highlights
- Pseudoflow or Lerchs-Grossmann algorithms for optimised pit shells; an unparalleled toolkit for high-level economic evaluation of new projects and operating mines.
- Uncover economic drivers and their sensitivities; focus on NPV maximisation or resource recovery.
- Easy-to-use project management framework; multiple scenarios analysed with advanced reporting and charting.
- New: 64-bit engines for large block models and DXF export of pit and period surfaces; Dassault Systèmes licensing (no dongles); faster block value calculation.
GEOVIA MineSched
The most advanced tactical mine planner for surface and underground mines of all sizes: long- and short-term schedules that meet capacity and quality targets without Gantt charts or spreadsheets.
Benefits
- Achieve scheduling objectives by quickly creating and comparing scheduling scenarios.
- Read directly from the popular mine planning solutions, or combinations of them, with no data conversion.
- Reduce mining costs with practical schedules built from rules, constraints and capacity targets; lower processing costs by meeting feed grade through target scheduling.
- Validate schedules in 3D animation and the Interactive Viewer; publish to Excel, Project and Access.
Highlights
- Open pit: any number of pits. Underground: development advance and stope production.
- Heuristic target-based scheduling for material ratios and quality objectives; stockpiles; production priority rules; haulage requirements; all minerals and methods.
- New: development and production planning integrated for sub-level caving; schedule restarted from progress reports; repeatable stockpile capacity rules; priority rules for material destinations.
From Whittle to MineSched
How the two products hand over in practice.
Handover
- Whittle produces the ultimate pit, the phases and the strategic schedule with their economics.
- MineSched takes the phases and the design and sequences the months and weeks inside them.
See also
- The Strategic Mine Planning and Tactical Mine Planning solutions describe the workflow with the platform roles added.
- The Surpac, Whittle, MineSched workflow article walks through a real case.
Licences, studies and training
How the discipline reaches an Indonesian project.
Services
- Licences for Whittle and MineSched; pit optimisation, strategic studies and tactical schedules as a service.
- Mining economics and feasibility-grade documentation for owners and investors.
Training
- Whittle and MineSched courses on your own block model and design.
Watch
Whittle modules and MineSched in motion.
Short videos from Dassault Systèmes for each role. They play here; nothing loads until you press play.
Whittle Pit Optimizer
Role video from Dassault Systèmes GEOVIA.
Whittle Pushback Optimizer
Role video from Dassault Systèmes GEOVIA.
Whittle Multi-Mine Optimizer
Role video from Dassault Systèmes GEOVIA.
MineSched Tactical Mine Planner
Role video from Dassault Systèmes GEOVIA.
In the software
Optimisers and schedules, as they look on screen.
Brochures and where to go next
Brochures for the products, and the pages that use them.
The brochures are the official product descriptions from Dassault Systèmes. The links after them lead to the product, solution and topic pages built on this discipline.
Reading
Articles on strategic and tactical planning
Other disciplines
Three more disciplines, and the topics that explain them.
- DisciplineGeologyMeasure, model and manage the physical world: geology models and the geoscience referential.
- DisciplineEarth DesignSimulate, visualise and evaluate the possibilities: strategic planning and parametric design roles.
- DisciplineUrban PlanningExplore, design and monitor the urban landscape: the virtual twin of the city.
- Featured topicsSix long reads on the questions a mine keeps askingAll topics · Geology Modeling · Parametric Mine Design · Mine Operations
In the software
Whittle and MineSched from the product brochures.
Screens from the GEOVIA product brochures distributed by ACALA.
Whittle
Optimised pit shell over the block model.
MineSched
Benches and pushbacks sequenced on the pit design.
MineSched dashboard
Per-period results while the schedule runs.
Questions people ask
Earth Resources Management FAQ
What is mine management software?
Which software is used for mine planning?
What are the functions of mine management?
How does Whittle differ from MineSched?
How does ACALA help?
Next step
Send us the block model and a cost set. We will run the pit and a first schedule, and show you both.
A working session with an ACALA planner on your own data, then a proposal for licences, studies or training.