Surface Coal: Design

The industry standard for Surface Coal Design

Complete your design and spatial tasks in one CAD package. All the tools you need to produce fast and accurate results. Spend more time analyzing and planning scenarios rather than manipulating data. 

Design Capabilities

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Automate dragline section design

  • Use solids to calculate horizon volumes and coal tonnages. Automate pit shell projects with shells reserving.
  • Dozer push design, analysis and operation.

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Create fit for purpose Run-of-Mine reserves

  • Rules-based scenario generation of aggregated reserves. Rapidly analyze and compare scenarios for final selection.
  • Generate final aggregated solids or grids for downstream mine planning processes such as margin ranking, production scheduling, and landform modeling.

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Generate designs faster

  • Design metadata (attributing) supports task automation, reduces errors and streamlines downstream processes including scheduling. 
  • Rapidly generate scenarios using input parameters. 
  • Repeatable end to end design workflows.

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Open Cut Coal Mine

Unearth your deposit's true value

  • Quickly produce minable reserves for coal operations. 
  • Generate optimized coal benches based on variable parameters. 
  • Simulate flows in coal operations. Compare different scenarios to maximize desired outcomes.

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Modeling made simpler

  • Leading solids modeling underpins speed, precision and quality of design and reporting. 
  • Unrivaled solids manipulation improves modeling accuracy and saves time. 
  • Handle large mining datasets with exceptional performance.

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Open Pit Mine Blast

Drill smarter for precision

  • Intuitive automatic or manual layout of drillholes, including charging and priming. 
  • Time saving design parameters, templates and integrated plotting. Improve “as-drilled” accuracy by exporting designs direct to drill rigs.

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Open Cut Coal Mine Site

Bridge the compliance gap

  • Analyse compliance to design to make better mining decisions. 
  • Detailed reconciliation between as-built and design solids for development, stopes and backfill. 
  • Integrated reporting for dilution, overbreak and underbreak and fill volumes. 

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Open Cut Coal Mine Site

Visualize your mine

  • Communicate insights with customizable outputs including plots, animations and dashboards, reporting with Power BI and other tools. 
  • Time saving annotation tools, intelligent attributes and dynamic plot generation. 
  • Fully interactive plotting for plotting lines, solids, and point clouds. 

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Open Cut Coal Mine Site

Your mine, your processes

  • Implement auditable, customizable and consistent processes through graphical workflows without scripting. 
  • Reduce time to onboard new or unfamiliar users. 
  • Enable cross-department collaboration, retaining control including role-based permissions. 
  • Stay focused on important tasks rather than collating and referencing data. 

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Open Cut Coal Mine

Centralized data for smarter decisions

  • Mitigate risks stemming from management of critical data. 
  • Improve planning efficiency with insight and control of team workflow and productivity. 
  • Continuous validation and standardization ensure data quality and support of autonomous operations. 
  • Centralize design data and enforce digital review and approval steps in workflows.

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Deswik consulting

Mining expertise that drives real results

Deswik’s consulting services bring together technical precision and practical expertise to empower your operation. We partner with you to uncover efficiencies and drive sustainable growth, delivering tailored solutions that transform mine planning into measurable progress.

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With its seamless data integration, world-class 3D modeling, and geospatial analysis capabilities, Spatial is the end-to-end CAD package to create detailed design plans, improve productivity, and enable environmental stewardship.

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Dynamically link your mine designs and schedules

Built on our scheduling platform, Deswik.Planning handles the planning needs of any mining sector by enabling long and short-term planning horizons to sit seamlessly together in a single schedule. 

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Have confidence in your spatial data

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Fast, efficient drill & blast design for surface mining methods

Deswik.OPDB enables rapid creation of drill and blast designs, either manually or with advanced automation. The module ensures consistency by using defined hole templates and charge standards.


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