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Digital mining

One connected digital mining ecosystem

Explore, model, plan, dig, monitor and reconcile — eight stages of one operation on one governed record, not eight packages that email each other spreadsheets.

GeoMine Scientist 3D scene showing nested isosurface grade shells with drillhole traces.

The mine lifecycle

Explore to reconcile, without the handoff losing anything.

Each stage reads what the last one produced. Pick one to see the applications behind it.

Stage 1 · Explore

Screen the ground

Imagery, terrain, and exploration geochemistry narrow a lease to the targets worth drilling.

Reads
Tenement boundaries, imagery archives and historical work
Produces
Ranked targets and a drilling programme
Plato GIS Sentinel remote sensing analysis panel.

Why it holds together

Geotechnical data reaches the pit design. Actuals reach the model.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEInterpretation · data discovery · anomaly detection · workflow assistance · cross-application agentsDATA HUBOnegovernedrecordField & surveyLaboratorySensors & IoTHistorical studiesModel outputsCaptured once.Reused everywhere.01GeoscienceDrilling & logsGeology &geochemistryGround &geotechnicalMine water02Compute & modelsGeostatisticsImplicit modellingBlock modelsSimulation03Plan & producePit design &scheduleDrill & blastGrade controlMine operations04AssureMonitoring &telemetryTailings & damsafetyReconciliationReporting & auditActuals correct the modelENTERPRISE GISOne map across the lease · satellite & historical imagery · change detection · 3D terrain · field editingDashed = scoped, in development

Scientific computing, not spreadsheets

The geostatistics runs on a separate governed compute engine — 30+ kernels carrying a deposit from desurveying and QA/QC through estimation and simulation to a resource statement. Re-run a job and you get the same answer, bit for bit.

30+

Governed compute kernels — the whole chain to a resource statement

3

Epistemic classes every artifact declares: observation, estimate, interpretation

4

Refusal categories, each with its own action

0

Client-side numerics — nothing is recomputed to draw

The applications

10 applications behind 6 live stages.

How the platform works

Data foundation

Data Hub

Structured data management for the platform — records, imports, editing, audit logs, and governance behind every module.

Exploration geochemistry

GeoChem Scientist

Manage, quality-control, and interpret geochemical assay data — from lab certificates and reference materials to CIPW norms, multi-element diagrams, and population analysis.

Mining & resource modelling

GeoMine Scientist

Drillhole data, implicit geological models, kriged block models, conditional simulation, and grade–tonnage reporting — every result carrying the job, parameters, and inputs that produced it.

Geotechnical

GeoTech Scientist

A connected platform for geotechnical investigation — projects, boreholes, in-situ and laboratory tests, logs, GIS, cross sections, 3D ground models, and engineering interpretation in one place.

Mine planning

Open Pit Planning

The mine-technical planning module between the resource model and execution — planning parameters, economic block valuation, pit optimization, phase design, sequencing, and resource-to-actual reconciliation.

Production & reconciliation

Grade Control

Answer what is in the ground, where its boundary lies, where the material went, and whether the numbers add up — from grade-control sampling to dig-lines, dispatch, stockpiles, and reconciliation.

Mine water

Mine Dewatering Scientist

The mine-specific groundwater-control module — inflow forecasting, drawdown and depressurization, pumping and well design, water balance, mine-stage readiness, and risk.

Groundwater & Hydrogeology

Hydro GeoScientist

Groundwater and hydrogeology intelligence platform for monitoring wells, well logs, IoT logger integration, recharge analysis, and AI-assisted groundwater decision-making.

Tailings & closure

Tailings Scientist

Manage the tailings storage facility across its lifecycle — deposition, instrumentation and surveillance, stability, water balance, risk, and dam-safety compliance.

Enterprise GIS

Plato GIS

Enterprise Web GIS platform for AI-powered mapping, analysis, data management, remote sensing, and operational spatial workflows.

Mining FAQ

Is this one product or several?

One platform, delivered as focused applications. Resource modelling, planning, grade control, ground engineering and mine water are separate applications because those are separate jobs — but they read and write the same governed record, so a number produced in one is the same number the next one uses.

Which stages ship today?

Explore, Model, Plan, Grade Control, Monitor and Reconcile are available now. Drill & Blast and Mine Operations are scoped and specified in the platform but not released — the lifecycle shows them because they are part of the chain, not because you can buy them today.

Does it produce a JORC or NI 43-101 resource statement?

It produces the reading, not the sign-off. The chain runs to a classification and a resource statement with tonnage, grade and contained metal by category and cut-off — but the classifier computes from the run's own evidence, asserts no conformance to any reporting code, and every statement is provisional until a Competent Person signs it.

How does a reviewer check a number?

Every result is identified by the hash of its own content, and records the kernel, the input identities, the parameters, the randomness root, the person who ran it, and the toolchain. Re-running the same job returns the same identity, so a figure can be confirmed rather than taken on trust.

Why won't the software fill in some parameters for me?

Because the parameters it refuses to guess are the ones that decide the answer — the variogram, the tail models, the search neighbourhood. A pre-filled dropdown would be a decision nobody actually made, so those fields are required, empty, and each explains why no default exists.

Does it replace the geologist?

No. The interpretation — the stratigraphic column, contact polarity, anisotropy, classification — comes from the geologist and is recorded as their claim. The platform makes that reading geometric, reproducible and reviewable. It does not invent it.

Put your drillholes through it.

Bring a deposit and we will walk it from logged hole to reported tonnage.

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