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Periodic monitoring with Sentry

Kanmantoo Copper Mine is located in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia. In December 2018 about 6000 t of rock slid from a height of 24 m on a rock […]

Data visualisation revolution in mining

In December 2018, personnel from LlamaZOO Interactive and Maptek South Africa demonstrated the potential of data visualisation, in the form of augmented or virtual reality (AR/VR) for mining companies. Charles […]

Connecting operations and planning

Maptek has enjoyed a long-term involvement with MinLog, providing customers with integrated planning and production systems. MinLog MineSuite provides for manual data capture and automated data acquisition for both production […]

Exploring undercover for the future

The third annual National Exploration Undercover School (NExUS) took place over three weeks in November-December 2018. It was attended by 32 eager geoscience students and early career mining and exploration […]

Digitalisation of drill and blast

Innovation through digitalisation and technology is a key focus for Barrick. This is strongly evident at its Pueblo Viejo operation, an open pit gold mine in the Dominican Republic, particularly […]

Tightening control over scheduling

Planning engineers who understand that strategic and tactical planning have different objectives and require different environments will be able to apply Maptek’s scheduling solution to obtain the best value from […]

Digital twin value for mine performance

The agreement between Maptek and PETRA is providing industry with valuable results. The integrated technology has for example enabled PanAust to identify and visualise areas of poor recovery where petrographic […]

Integration improves accuracy and productivity

A project recently completed for an Australian gold miner is a great example of how collaboration between technology providers can result in better outcomes for mining companies. Linking Maptek Vulcan […]

Training courses

Mine design Maptek Africa is proud of the on-going partnership with the Department of Mining Engineering at the University of Pretoria. Students are expected to use Vulcan to design a […]

Scheduling solution uncovers value

Massawa Gold Project is a large greenfields exploration project located about 700 kilometres southeast of Dakar, the capital of Senegal. In 2018, Barrick commissioned Maptek to produce a detailed strategic […]

One-model solution for coal products

Thiess geologists overcame software limitations by developing improved run of mine (ROM) modelling methods that incorporate multiple coal products into one model. Working across Thiess’ various mining projects, geologists Alistair […]

Electronic tie-up

Tie-up is an important part of drill and blast workflows and electronic tie-up is becoming the method of choice. Electronic tie-up provides finer timing control and reduced misfire potential, increasing […]

University partnerships

NExUS Early career geologists explore nexus between summer school and their future careers. Thirty-five geoscience students took part in the fourth annual National Exploration Undercover School (NExUS), held in Strathalbyn, […]

Facing the future

A reorganised structure under the new Chief Product Officer will allow Maptek to improve the value proposition for customers. Strategic global customer-facing roles align with Mine Planning, Mine Operations, Mine […]

Training that meets your needs

Remote Vulcan training Remote individual training interweaves practical learning sessions within an everyday working environment. Maptek provides online support and training to make sure customers are up to speed with […]

Automated Pit Designer

Maptek Vulcan Automated Pit Designer (APD) is an open pit mine design tool that allows mine planners to rapidly iterate between designs based on output from pit optimisation runs along […]

Survey joy at greenfields gold mine

The Gruyere gold mine, 200 km east of Laverton in the Western Australian goldfields, is a 50:50 joint venture between the operator, Gold Fields and Gold Road Resources, who discovered […]

Digital explosives inventory management

Maptek BlastLogic tablet-based explosives inventory management takes this important process into the digital sphere – allowing engineers, blast crews, IT teams and mine management to benefit from data-driven decision making. […]

2020 vision for the future

Desktop tools that enable mining professionals to interact with their data are the building blocks of Maptek solutions. Today’s focus is on technologies that help acquire, manage and process data […]

Smart material tracking

The established process of mine operations reporting often sees results delivered after the fact. This leaves no room to react and adapt plans as circumstances change. Mining is such a […]

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