Where spatial placement of planning and production information might be a “nice to have” for some businesses, GMSI (mining subsidiary of the Gijima group) believes that the future of enterprise mining solutions is in employing information in its spatial context. GMSI’s mineRP is an enterprise framework for integrating all elements of mine resource planning, presenting the industry with a real breakthrough in spatial data management.
More than just providing a common location and processes for storing and retrieving spatial information files (such as geological models; designs, schedules, etc.), mineRP is the world’s first truly integrated mining technical solutions framework where mining data is integrated at the lowest data level, the company says. Based on GMSI’s spatialDB, mines can manage mining data with a MS SQL Server based, OGC compliant data store containing both three dimensional spatial information and related business data in one place. Storing, merging, collating and publishing spatially relevant mining technical information is done using this central repository – resulting in up to date and standardised information being available to all disciplines simultaneously.
What this means is that mining technical disciplines work together as a whole, instead of in silos separated by technology and process.
mineRP further differentiates itself from competing platforms in two areas:
- Firstly, mineRP does not store the information gathered from various disciplines as files in a central location, but rather translates and maps that information into SpatialDB, where all information is related to a single version of space. Like working with Google’s Google Earth technology, spatialDash allows browsing of integrated mining technical information through the internet from anywhere across the globe.
- Secondly, mineRP does not require of mines to change current expert systems employed in the management of their various technical disciplines. Mines may carry on using the geological, design and planning, and even operational systems of their choice, yet centralise information into mineRP through various certified mineRP middleware options.