Underground Metals: Optimization

Optimize your underground processes for maximum return

Simultaneously make smarter design, scheduling and value chain decisions across the underground mining value chain.

Optimization Capabilities

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Design stopes that maximize your orebody's value

  • Quickly produce minable reserves for stoping and caving operations. 
  • Generate optimized stope shapes based on variable parameters. 
  • Simulate flows in caving operations. Compare different scenarios to maximize desired outcomes.

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SO
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Model complex material flows with ease

  • Make optimal decisions of where to send material once mined with a built network of sources, stockpiles, dumps and plants.
  • Develop product strategies considering capacity and blending constraints to maximize value across multiple periods.
  • Model complex material flows and compare multi-period and period-based optimizations using scenarios.

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Blend
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Mathematically optimize the time-value of your reserves

  • Schedule tasks based on time-value to find the highest NPV of your operation.
  • Optimize development and production while accounting for task dependencies, task and lag durations, resource consumption and capacity constraints.
  • Make data-driven scheduling decisions based on maximizing NPV.

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APEX
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Automate the creation of shift plans

  • Dispatch draw strategies with real-time, autonomous optimization and short interval control.
  • Plan your shifts to manage development, construction, and production tasks.

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ORB
ORB
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Mathematically optimize your net present value across the mine-to-market value chain

  • Generate plans that cover all time horizons for mining, production, processing, blending, multi-modal logistics, stockpiling and vessels.

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BOLT
BOLT
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Analyze and report on your optimization results

  • Import optimized strategic start/finish dates into your schedule to guide shorter range planning.
  • Clearly see where bottlenecks are in the flow network.
  • Compare different scenarios to understand how system constraints impact production.

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Optimization software for Underground Metals

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SO

Realize more value from your stopes

A strategic mine planning tool, Deswik SO automates stoping design for a range of methods used in underground mines so you can strategically maximize the value of your ore body.

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Blend

Streamline your material flow modeling

Deswik Blend is a material flow modeling tool that optimizes product handling by simplifying the complexities of managing and blending materials from any mining deposit.

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APEX

Create mathematically optimal mine plans that maximize NPV

Make strategic planning decisions that maximize the NPV of your underground mines. factoring in development and production tasks, geological constraints, equipment availability, ore grades, and financial targets.

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BOLT

Streamline blending and logistics across your supply chain

An advanced multi-commodity blending, stockpiling and logistics optimizer, BOLT generates mathematically optimal mine plans to increase profits, reduce costs and maximize efficiency across your entire value chain.

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ORB

Real-time production dispatch and cave management system

ORB is the world’s first highly automated short interval control solution for production block cave dispatch. 

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