MODEL THE SUSTAINABLE PLANET
As mining companies seek to develop sustainable mining operations, improve mine planning and increase mine productivity, they turn to Dassault Systèmes for the latest proven software solutions and digital innovations in technology. GEOVIA is part of Dassault Systèmes, providing the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and 3DEXPERIENCE® Universes to discover, model and harness our natural and urban environments.
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GEOVIA SURPAC™
INTEGRATED GEOLOGY, RESOURCE MODELING, MINE PLANNING AND PRODUCTION
GEOVIA Surpac is the world’s most popular geology and mine planning software, supporting open pit and underground operations and exploration projects in more than 120 countries. The software delivers efficiency and accuracy through ease-of-use, powerful 3D graphics and workflow automation that can be aligned to company-specific processes and data flows.
Surpac addresses all the requirements of geologists, surveyors, and mining engineers in the resource sector and is flexible enough to be suitable for every commodity, orebody and mining method. Its multilingual capabilities allow global companies to support a common solution across their operations.
Benefits
- Comprehensive tools include: drillhole data management, geological modeling, block modeling, geostatistics, mine design, mine planning, resource estimation, and more.
- Modular and easily customized to adapt to changing needs.
- Ability to seamlessly share data, skills and project knowledge across teams and departments.
- Increased time savings with compliance to company-specific processes.
- Consistency of execution using task automation.
- Reduced data duplication with file format support of popular GIS and CAD systems.
- Integrated production scheduling with GEOVIA MineSched™.
- Multilingual support: English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish and French.
GEOVIA Hub™
Data Centralization and Collaboration
GEOVIA Hub, integrated directly within the Surpac user interface, provides secure remote collaboration that organises, centralizes and enables the reliable sharing of exploration, planning, and production data, allowing users, workgroups and teams to work together no matter where they are in the world, whether co-located or highly distributed.
GEOVIA GEMS™
INTEGRATED GEOLOGY, RESOURCE MODELING, MINE PLANNING AND PRODUCTION
GEOVIA GEMS is the leader in collaborative geology and mine planning solutions. GEMS provides the capabilities for open pit and underground mining professionals in exploration, modeling, mine design, long-term planning and production scheduling.
With GEMS’ unique centralized database, geologists and engineers gain immediate access to organized, up-to-date geological and mine planning data, while the breakthrough block model conversion engine enables users to collaborate together using different software packages, providing direct conversion between different block model formats.
GEMS’ data security and auditing provides the capabilities to improve compliance with industry regulations such as JORC, SAMREC and NI 43-101.
Benefits
- Central database manages data, enabling data security and auditability, while eliminating data redundancy and increasing data integrity and accuracy.
- Streamlined data flows, central data access and increased compatibility improve collaboration, providing information when needed to speed decision-making.
- System ease-of-use – robust dialog boxes guide users through workflows.
- Industry-standard Microsoft technologies integrate with existing IT infrastructure and ensure system scalability.
- PlotMaker feature allows users to annotate plots with text blocks, bitmaps, Excel spreadsheets, Word documents and other objects.
- Simplify the Tunnel Design process by rolling up multiple steps into one.
GEOVIA Minex™
THE ONLY INTEGRATED, END-TO-END GEOLOGY AND MINE PLANNING SOLUTION FOR COAL AND OTHER STRATIFIED DEPOSITS
GEOVIA Minex is the recognized world leader of integrated geology and mine planning solutions for coal and other stratified deposits.
Minex ensures resources are evaluated accurately and mined efficiently from exploration to rehabilitation. As a single integrated solution, data and skills can be readily moved between teams at significant time and cost savings. Across the world, mining companies turn to Minex to more accurately design, plan and implement mining strategies which drive additional efficiencies, increase productivity, control costs and increase profitability.
Benefits
- Save Time – Mine design made easier Make Better Decisions
- Speed and accuracy over the entire process Improve Communication
- Better interpretation of data with powerful visualisation tools and graphical displays Achieve Greater Accuracy
- Tight integration with the stratigraphic model
GEOVIA MineSched™
TACTICAL MINE PLANNING - GREAT RESULTS WITH PROVEN TECHNOLOGY
Intuitive, rapid setup and guided workflows take the complexity out of tactical mine planning, putting real decision-making power back in the hands of engineers and mining operations. MineSched produces long and short-term schedules that meet capacity and material quality targets. Schedule from pre-created block, grid, and polygon models that originate from many different mine planning systems, including GEOVIA Surpac™ and other industry geology and mine planning products.
With target-driven automated tactical planning, there’s no need to manually adjust schedules with Gantt charts or spreadsheets. MineSched creates schedules that improve mine site operational productivity and profitability.
Benefits
- Achieve scheduling objectives by quickly and easily creating and comparing scheduling scenarios.
- Increase productivity and efficiency by directly reading from all of the popular mine planning solutions or combinations thereof for a data-conversion-free advanced scheduling user experience.
- Reduce mining costs by preparing practical schedules through the use of rules, constraints and capacity targets.
- Lower processing costs by meeting your feed grade requirements through target scheduling algorithms.
- Validate schedules by visualizing them in 3D animations and sharing them via the standalone Interactive Viewer application.
GEOVIA Whittle™
STRATEGIC MINE PLANNING - OPTIMIZE MINE PROFITS
When exploration and mining companies need to evaluate the financial viability and the optimal mine strategy for a deposit, they turn to the industry leading strategic mine planning solution – GEOVIA Whittle.
Companies depend on Whittle to help them determine their investment strategy and to deliver robust mine plans that maximize profitability by taking into account real mining constraints.
Whittle delivers trusted results and is used in scoping, feasibility, life-of-mine scheduling, and in the ongoing re-evaluation of mine plans throughout the production phase.
Because pit optimization alone is not enough to unlock the full economic potential of your operation, Whittle provides mine optimization, which enables significant increases in project value over and above pit optimization.
With its 64-bit platform, Whittle handles large data sets designed to optimize and run big models.
To aid with these ever increase larger datasets, in addition to Lerchs-Grossmann, Whittle also includes the Pseudoflow algorithm which is renowned for the speed in which it generates pit shells, even for these large datasets.
Benefits
- Exploration
- Understand the potential value of the deposit.
- Target areas for future drilling
- Scoping
- Establish the economic viability of the deposit and options for capital investment and development strategies.
- Examine sensitivities and assign resources accordingly for future studies.
- Pre-feasibility, Feasibility
- Identify preferred development strategy, capital investment, expected NPV and optimal extraction sequence.
- Calculate sensitivities to develop risk reduction strategy.
- Ascertain final reserve statement for the deposit.
- Bankable Feasibility
- Study expected return on investment.
- Analyze sensitivities and investment risk.
- Consider multiple scenarios for reducing risk.
- Production
- Determine strategic direction for the mine; cut-off grade and optimized cut-off grade; mining areas and extraction sequence per period; and development strategies for new mines and push backs.
- Re-evaluate mine plans in response to changing conditions.
- Calculation of annual reserve statement.
GEOVIA PCBC™
POWER AND FLEXIBILITY FOR YOUR BLOCK CAVE OPERATION
PCBC is used by virtually every mining company involved in block caving who depend on it to improve profits through better mine plans, schedules and production management.
PCBC clients realize substantial increases in deposit value through more accurate resource estimations and reports, while benefiting from better dilution management and geotechnical stability.
PCBC has a proven track record for keeping production schedules current under the dynamically changing conditions at operating mines.
With decisions based on a single source of data housed in a central database, PCBC users spend less time updating mine plans, evaluating scheduling options and running profitability scenarios.
Benefits
- Risk reduction for large capital projects by evaluation of multiple scenarios.
- Better grade modeling and forecasting by using multiple material mixing options.
- Complete integration from pre-feasibility modeling right through to daily production which is unmatched in the block cave industry.
- Powerful production scheduling which can rapidly be updated and modified for real production statistics.
- Provides powerful management reports for effective monitoring of dynamic situations.
GEOVIA InSite™
MINE PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT - Increase the confidence in operations
GEOVIA InSite™ increases the confidence in mining operations’ ability to meet production targets, control costs, and improve efficiencies to meet stakeholders’ expectations. InSite provides up-to-date information for improved visibility into production activities, enabling in-shift control and support of material reconciliation across the mining value chain.
Disciplines
Powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, GEOVIA delivers 3D modeling and simulation software that helps geoscientists and earth engineers model the planet
EARTH DESIGN
MAXIMIZE RESOURCE POTENTIAL WITH STRATEGIC PLANNING AND DESIGN
Before investing in a new mine, or when re-evaluating mine plans in an active operation, you need to be sure the deposit, design and schedule can deliver the profits required to justify the required capital investment. With GEOVIA, you have the capabilities to maximize profitability and gain greater confidence in the decisions you make.
With GEOVIA, you can analyze the economic viability of a mineral deposit, and then align designs and schedules to company goals.
You also have the ability to optimize return on investment (ROI) by exploring different design options. Risks can be reduced by considering different mine design and operating scenarios by examining the sensitivities to changes in commodity prices, demand, and operating costs.
Once you have your strategic mine plan, you can use it to guide the development of a practical-to-mine production schedule which will also deliver the best possible ROI.
EARTH RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
HARNESS THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT THROUGH PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT AND CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION
GEOVIA Resources Management provides solutions to manage and optimize the planning and operations of an urban or natural resource, from the smallest details of urban environments to the vast expanse of a remote mine site.
Resources Management provide solutions to bridge the planning, scheduling and operations functions, enabling cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement: a Plan, Do, Check, Act framework underpinned by centralized data and a collaborative platform.
GEOLOGY
DISCOVER AND MODEL THE SURFACE AND SUB-SURFACE GEOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT
GEOVIA provides you with the geology modeling capabilities needed to quantify and then plan the extraction of mineral deposits. Our applications integrate: ore body or seam modeling; geostatistical analysis; resource modeling, estimation and Block Model generation; survey; and other critical functions.
With GEOVIA, mine site productivity can be increased through the automation of workflows for processes such as grade control, eliminating repetitive tasks, helps to reduce errors, and is underpinned by visual validation of designs.
Using GEOVIA, data can be centralized and secured, making it accessible whenever it is required. In addition to enabling effective collaboration, you benefit from robust audit trails, giving you increased confidence in creating reports for JORC, Valmin, SAMREC, and NI 43-101 and other requirements.
URBAN PLANNING
PROVIDES A VIRTUAL 3D ENVIRONMENT TO INTERACTIVELY EXPLORE THE VIRTUAL TWIN OF THE CITY
An intelligent digital model based on geometric and topographical, demographic, mobility and other elements addresses the complexity of the cities, enabling the stakeholders to work in a systemic approach to collaborate around the common referential that allows them to simulate the evolutions of the city.
The stakeholders are able simulate, plan and manage the city in a transversal and collaborative way to remotely share data and better observe urban phenomena.
