Micromine has released Micromine 2011, the latest version of its flagship exploration and mine modelling solution. This follows less than 18 months since the major release of Micromine 2010 in March last year at the PDAC Convention in Toronto. With more than 12,000 users worldwide, Micromine enables geologists and engineers to locate prospective regions, search for mineral indicators, model and visualise ore distribution patterns and design mining operations.
Consistent with all Micromine releases, the new features in Micromine 2011 focus on intuitive usability with enhanced workflow methodologies and logical processes. Productivity gains continue to predominate with faster processing speeds, flexible import and export functions and compatibility with third-party applications.
Highlights of Micromine 2011 include:
- Enhanced GIS compatibility – supports many GIS formats in 2D or 3D
- GPS compatibility – import, display and export to GPS Exchange and GPS TrackMaker
- Raster (grid) data compatibility – supports many raster formats
- Google Earth compatibility – import, display and export to Google Earth KML format
- Binary Fields – significant enhancements to file size and performance
- Drillhole optimisations – new level-of-detail improves speed of interactive displays.
Commenting on the new release, Micromine Founder and Managing Director, Graeme Tuder, said ‘I am extremely proud of Micromine 2011 and am confident that our clients will realise the benefits the solution has to offer. Like all Micromine’s software solutions, this release has been developed according to the needs of our clients. With more than 30% of annual revenue reinvested in research and development, Micromine ensures its clients benefit from the latest technological advances with frequent, timely releases and updates.”