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Gemcom Product Roadmap

MatthewPeursumProductManager,Surpac

May 18, 2016

Product Roadmap
6.0.5

6.1

6.2

GEMS
6.0

6.2

Surpac
5.2

5.3

5.4

Minex
4.0

5.0

Whittle
Maximiser

4.0C

2.0

2.1

2.2

InSite
5.0
MineSched

2006

5.1

5.2

2007

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2008

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Surpac Roadmap
Surpac Geology, Survey and Mine Planning.
Survey
Geology
Engineering
Opencutandunderground

Distinguishingfeatures:
Dataplugins
Geostatistics
Localisedtranslations
Scripting

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Surpac Roadmap
Surpac 6.0 Increased productivity through improved user interaction

New user interface


Data centric
Context menus
Graphical editing tools
Dockable menus / toolbars / windows
Layer manager
Property pane

New solids intersection tools


Up to 100 times faster
Plotting
Graphical editing / plot markup tools
Automated drillhole section plotting with plan strips
Improvements to plot preview including dimensioning

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Minex Roadmap
Minex Survey, Geology, Engineering for Open Pit Coal and Stratified Deposits

Boreholemodelling

Seammodelling
Faultmodelling
Surveydatareduction
Blastdesign
Crosssectionalrehabilitation
Spoilreshaping

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Minex Roadmap
Minex 5.2 Survey, Geology, Engineering for Open Pit Coal and Stratified
Deposits

Mine design for stratified geology

Pit, dump and ramp design


Database of volumes and quality
Database reporting and plotting
Texture mapping
Coal washability and ROM beneficiation
Access borehole data from any ODBC database, including acQuire
Pit optimiser

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GEMS Roadmap
GEMS Geology, Survey and Mine Planning.
Survey
Geology
Engineering
Opencutandunderground
Distinguishingfeatures:
Centraliseddatabasestorage
Folded/faulteddeposits
ProductionScheduling

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GEMS Roadmap
GEMS 6.1 - Powerful tunneling, sharing on the web and easier
to use

Image draping
Simple and fast tunnel design
Fast startup with default new project values
Publish reports and drawings to the Web
Faster handling of large datasets

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Whittle Roadmap
Whittle Optimisation and analysis solution for open cut mines
Essential tools (Foundation)
Multi-mine optimisation
Blend optimisation
Multi-element mines
Pushbacks
Stockpile / cut-off optimisation
Milawa ultimate optimisation
Custom value models

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Whittle Roadmap
Whittle 4.0 - Better performance with more flexibility

Bigger datasets, faster performance


User-defined pit constraints
Spreadsheet output into Excel
Better inline editing of tables, including selection, edit, tab, copy and paste.
Import and export of user-defined mining sequences including color scales
3D viewer: graphics copy function; display scales and data inspector in new
dialogs that can be viewed at same time as 3D image; user-defined display of
periods.
Template support added for Pit by Pit & Size vs. Value graphs, along with the
ability to create templates from pre-existing graphs.
Reblock added to New Project wizard.
Audit Trails have been revised and updated to provide optional support for
both ancestor and child trails.
Improved blending, especially in conjunction with the Milawa scheduling
option.

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Whittle Roadmap
Whittle 5.0 - Strategic Planning to the Max
Optimize the NPV with integrated scheduling, blending and
stockpile management
Complex mining problems modeled quickly
Easy to read default graphs and reports
Fully customizable reports
Audit capability track model changes

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InSite Roadmap
InSite Mine performance management solutions
Optimise tactical decision making
Enhance production planning and
performance management
Better management of reserves
Corporate / governance reporting
Strategic alignment of operations
Deliver value to everyone

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InSite Roadmap
InSite 2.0 - Mine Operations Edition

Integration with ProdTrak


Reconciliation and stockpile management
Conversion to MS Reporting and Analysis Services
Integration of GEMS data
Built-in base reports and drill-downs
Web Portal browser interface

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InSite Roadmap
InSite 2.1 - Global Operations Edition

Internationalization Framework for Data Warehouse, Cube,


Reports and Portal
Localized Versions of the Portal in Portuguese, Spanish, French,
Chinese and Russian
Improve Portal Usability
Consolidated multi-site reporting
Integration Framework for mine planning and scheduling systems
Define SAP Exchange Infrastructure Integration Framework

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MineSched Roadmap
MineSched Powerful, integrated scheduling
Production scheduling
Blending
U/G development scheduling

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MineSched Roadmap
MineSched - Powerful, integrated scheduling

Emphasis on integrated scheduling from long term to short term


Requirements analysis underway
Technology integration with Surpac technology
Evaluating value-add components
Integration with Whittle already possible

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Gemcom Integration the first steps

Moving toward integrated components - 2008


Shared modules between GMP applications

Geostatistics from Surpac


Plotmaker from GEMS
MineSched integration to other GMPs
InSite integration to GMPs
Database underlying all applications
Database functions such as pack and go, publish to web provided
across applications

Requirements gathering and resource estimates underway


GEMS and Surpac will remain as independent products but with
best of breed shared components created over time.

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