InSite 4.4 aims to advance reconciliation capabilities for mining operations and GEMS 6.6 (pictured) has new tools for underground mine planners. The company says “InSite delivers advanced reconciliation tools to analyse the variance between planned and actual production, helping mines improve their operational efficiency, lower costs and gain greater confidence in their production data, resulting in better planning decisions.” GEMS provides collaborative geology and mine planning capabilities that support cross-functional teams involved in exploration, modelling, mine design, long-term planning, and production scheduling. With more mines moving underground, GEMS 6.6 introduces a new ramp design tool and other enhancements for underground mine planners.

InSite 4.4 offers further advances for mine operations managers, engineers and geologists to quickly and effectively reconcile large quantities of production data.  Enhancements to Shift Management, Central Monitoring and the new Inspect and Correct feature, focus on helping users overcome the challenge of identifying variances and improving the reliability and confidence in their data between planned and actual production. This latest release makes it easier to justify and implement changes to models, engineering assumptions or operational processes to make plans more accurate and achievable.

“In order to improve data integrity and eliminate islands of information, MATSA implemented Geovia InSite.  Timely, validated and correct production information is now available. Controlled reporting and data integration is automated and analysis of planned versus actual ore produced helps to ensure that the mine is operating within performance parameters. InSite introduces best reconciliation practises into our company allowing improvements to models, plans or processes, efficiency gains and improved product delivery,” stated Roberto Vargas, Advisor Mining Technical Solutions, Trafigura Mining Group (MATSA).

InSite 4.4 highlights include:

·         A new Inspect and Correct feature helps to uncover errors that may exist in operational data. Highly flexible and easy–to-use, the feature allows users to create various views of data and perform calculations on the different views to test the accuracy of the data and to make necessary corrections.

·         Updates to the Shift Management module enable users to more accurately manage the detailed plan for each shift by closely monitoring near real-time progress of the plan through new views of the shift data and make ongoing amendments, as needed.

·         Central Monitoring enhancements provide a new dimension for reconciliation by comparing the progress of operational activities against plan to quickly identify changes through an interactive map of the operation.

The introduction of a new ramp design tool in the GEMS Tunnel Design Module vastly simplifies the current ramp design process by eliminating many small repetitive tasks, rolling them into one easy step. Offering a more agile workflow, GEMS users will also benefit from the ability to make changes throughout the design process, removing the need to start again when changes are necessary. Additionally, the Ramp Design tool saves time by selecting the most commonly used ramp styles from a range of pre-configured templates, allowing rapid evaluation and scheduling of your resource, enabling quicker overall mine design.

Additional new features include:

·         Regrade-a-line feature allows specified grade parameters to be preserved when moving lines or segments to new positions, eliminating the need to recreate them from scratch.

·         Gradient Smoothing feature removes the need to manually digitise incrementally changing segments with the ability to merge intersections with an existing tunnel centreline so that line segments transition smoothly.

·         Quick view options (XY,YZ,XZ buttons) allow the user to quickly navigate to axis-oriented views.

“The new tools in GEMS are great – especially the quick views, which provide a more flexible and intuitive way to view data. The new Ramp Design and Regrade-a-line tools are also very helpful in reducing the time it takes to create ramp designs,” said Samuel Amoh, Mine Planning Engineer, Dundee Precious Metals.