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Information and links on a variety of technical aspects of mining & mineral exploration.
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 Hecla Mining Company selects Micromine’s mine control and information system PITRAM and DOME to record and manage operations in real-timeFriday, July 18, 2008Micromine today revealed details of the mine production control and management system PITRAM and DOME that has been implemented at Hecla Mining Company's Greens Creek mine. read more » Consultants' BlogsWednesday, July 16, 2008Boarding a flight to Fort McMurray, a fellow consultant asked my opinion about what he called “Consultant Blogs.” Here are my ideas read more » Xstrata Technology & MIPAC in Exclusive Service AgreementTuesday, July 08, 2008MIPAC & Xstrata Technology have announced the formalisation of their long-standing relationship, with an exclusive Collaboration Agreement for the delivery of the ISASMELT™ & ISACONVERT™ smelting and copper converting technology. read more » SNAP Data Collection SolutionsTuesday, June 24, 2008If you collect a lot of data in the field, you may want to take a look at SNAP! Data Collection Solutions from JRP Solutions. Here is what the company says about this tool. read more » Pierina Gold MineThursday, June 12, 2008GoldSim to the rescue again: an abstract for the conference on Tailings & Mine Waste ’08 tells of a water balance model for the Pierina Gold Mine in Peru using GoldSim for the entire plant. read more » Carlson Software and Rajant Corporation Announce Partnership to Deliver Mining and Construction SolutionsTuesday, June 10, 2008Rajant Corporation announced today that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Carlson Software to provide world-class productivity solutions primarily for the mining and construction industries. read more » GoldSim and the Marillana MineFriday, June 06, 2008GoldSim is a computer code that enables you to model systems consisting of units (elements) into, through, and out of which things flow. read more » Micromine Receives AUS$5million Grant from AusIndustry to Develop Revolutionary Mining Software PlatformWednesday, June 04, 2008Micromine announced today that it has been successfully awarded a $5 million grant by AusIndustry. read more » Astec Invests in DEM Solutions' EDEMThursday, May 15, 2008DEM Solutions (USA) Inc. is pleased to announce that Astec, Inc., will be relying on DEM Solutions’ EDEM™ software read more » Gemcom InSite Awarded Most Innovative Vertical Industry SoftwareWednesday, May 14, 2008Gemcom Software International Inc. has won its second software award for 2008 with Gemcom InSite read more » Gemcom Software Announces Agreement to be Acquired by JMI Equity and the Carlyle GroupThursday, May 08, 2008Gemcom Software International Inc. (TSX:GCM), the largest global supplier of specialised mining productivity solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by JMI Equity and The Carlyle
Group read more » FEMLABThursday, April 03, 2008FEMLAB can be used to model heap leach pad performance. Here is a description of the code read more » Micromine’s Pit Optimisation SoftwareMonday, March 17, 2008A recent study by Golder Associates has revealed that MICROMINE’s powerful Pit Optimiser is as high in usability and performance, as other leading industry-standard optimisation software such as Gemcom’s Whittle 4X optimiser. read more » Pillar SoftwareMonday, March 10, 2008Two software codes from NIOSH that are in the news. They were used to analyze conditions at the Crandall canyon Mine prior to the disaster that killed 6 miners and 3 rescue workers. read more » QMASTORTuesday, March 04, 2008A newsletter that is worth looking at if you are into mining-related software is from QMASTOR read more » Wallingford and WaterinfoTuesday, March 04, 2008From the Waterinfo e-news put out by Wallingford Software, here are a few news items and a bit of promotion that I thought worth recording for those interested in hydraulics and software. read more » Micromine Launches PITRAM 3Wednesday, February 27, 2008Micromine, leading provider of mining and exploration software products and services, has announced that the highly-anticipated official global launch of PITRAM 3 will take place on 3 March at PDAC International Convention, Trade Show & Investors Exchange 2008. read more » GoldSim Financial EvaluatorFriday, February 22, 2008Ever on the lookout for another piece of software that helps the engineer, scientist, and technical folk analyze financial systems in the mining industry, my attention was turned to the GoldSim Financial Module. read more » Heap Leach SoftwareMonday, January 21, 2008Computer codes to simulate and model the performance of leach pads abound—any code that calculates a factor of safety against instability will work on a heap leach pad problem, and the same is true for most aspects of heap leach pad performance. read more » Rock Mechanics SoftwareFriday, January 18, 2008Here is a list of software and software providers that you may find useful in addressing rock mechanics situations at your mine. read more » Computer GamesMonday, January 14, 2008Playing computer games is for everyone. Here is my take at some computer games relevant to mining. read more » Durham CoalfieldsFriday, January 11, 2008The February 2007 edition of the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology included a paper entitled Migration of polluted mine water in a public supply aquifer. read more » GoldSim White PapersWednesday, January 09, 2008Two white papers from GoldSim that are, in my opinion, worth downloading and reading read more » Settle 3D by RocscienceFriday, December 14, 2007In the industrial area of Albuquerque is a large oil tank sitting on foundations I designed. One of the design issues was just how much the soft silty sand beneath the footing would settle. read more » LeaseControl Software by Maxwell GeoServicesTuesday, December 04, 2007LeaseControl is a software product designed by Maxwell GeoServices for worldwide land tenure management. read more » FracMan - An UpdateMonday, December 03, 2007Fracman is a powerful way to model groundwater flow in mines where the flow is in the fractured bedrock. read more » QMASTOR Secures Contract and Announces New Product ReleaseThursday, October 25, 2007The Directors of QMASTOR Limited are pleased to announce the signing of a contract with an Australian Bauxite producer for the provision of QMASTOR’s flagship software system: Pit to Port.net® (Pit to Port) Version 4.3.0. read more » Riprap Design Procedures ManualTuesday, October 16, 2007Many a mine needs to control erosion in the surface water channels. If the mine is blessed with an abundance of good quality rock, riprap may be the most economic approach to limiting erosion. read more » The Judicious Use of Computer ModelsTuesday, September 25, 2007Here is some practical advice I cull from Hydrology and Floodplain Analysis (1988) by Philip B. Bendient and Wayne C. Huber. read more » Groundwater Modeling ToolsMonday, September 17, 2007Over the last decade, great strides have been made in developing numerical models covering virtually all aspects of mining hydrogeology from traditional 2D seepage models to complex models simulating multi-phase flow and multi-species contaminant transport. read more » Surface Water CalculationsFriday, September 14, 2007The September issue of Stormwater contains one of the best articles about surface water I have read in quite a while. read more » Mineral Assay Result Transparency Benefits Companies, InvestorsTuesday, September 04, 2007Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc,, the advanced-technology environmental consultants, announces the availability of AssayWatch(SM), a mineral assay storage system read more » DEM Solutions Announces Distribution Agreement with ESSSMonday, August 20, 2007DEM Solutions, a world leading developer of discrete element modelling software solutions, is pleased to announce that it has signed a distribution agreement with ESSS read more » Groundwater ModelsWednesday, July 25, 2007On many a project, preparing and running the groundwater model is the largest cost item. Why is this? read more » Encom and NoddyFriday, June 22, 2007What is Encom, you may ask. Here is their history: Encom was founded in 1984 by David Pratt and Ian Grierson. Their first goal for Encom was to develop a range of exploration software programs which would run on less expensive microcomputers. read more » Mine Ventilation Software IITuesday, June 12, 2007Here are a few of the codes you may choose to use to design, analyze, and operate you ventilation system. I include some information about the capabilities of each code read more » Mining GamesFriday, June 01, 2007Playing computer games is for everyone. Here is my take at four computer games relevant to mining. read more » Project Management SoftwareThursday, May 31, 2007Of the many e-newsletters that come my way, that by METHOD123 is by far the most informative. Here is a cut and paste from one of their most recent ones. read more » Groundwater SoftwareTuesday, April 24, 2007Here are some places you can find information about software that you may need to deal with groundwater in the mining context. read more » Mining SoftwareMonday, April 23, 2007Imagine you know nothing about software for the mining industry. Yet you have to spend much to outfit your new mine. How do you decide what to buy and what to have done by hand? read more » FluentThursday, April 12, 2007Fluent, which claims to be the world leader in computational fluid dynamics software and services, has entered into a partnership with DEM Solutions, a leading developer of Discrete Element Methods software solutions. read more » DEM Solutions Particle MechanicsWednesday, April 11, 2007DEM Solutions software is used to simulate, analyze, and visualize particle flows so that you can get a feel for what is happening in a situation involving particle kinematics, momentum, and heat and mass transfer. read more » Software BluesTuesday, April 10, 2007The next book on my reading list is Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future, by Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis. read more » FracManWednesday, March 28, 2007It seems so obvious: most mines involve cutting into rock, and rock is fractured. Therefore the stability and groundwater flow patterns of the mine opening, whether open pit or underground, will be controlled by the fractures. read more » RavenRoadWednesday, March 21, 2007One of the benefits of writing for this site is the occasional really different and interesting contacts that pop up in the e-mail. Here is a summary of one of the most intriguing in a while. read more » Rift SoftwareWednesday, March 07, 2007Rift TD is a sophisticated digital terrain model specifically developed for modeling tailings dams and associated infrastructure, including embankments and ponds. read more » DatamineMonday, January 29, 2007“They produce the best quality stuff in the industry.” I would not know—and have no personal opinion about the quality of the product. This quote is from an old antagonist against whom I argue much, with whom I generally disagree, but whose opinion I always respect. read more » Software DirectoryWednesday, January 24, 2007The Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Software Directory catalogues 1681 programs in the fields of Geotechnical Engineering, Soil Mechanics, Rock Mechanics, Engineering Geology read more » Discrete Element Method (DEM)Thursday, November 30, 2006The sales brochures are readily available. The technical papers are not. What the computer software does is readily obvious. What can yet be done to benefit the mining industry is not. read more » Aventurine and the Sherpa SoftwareFriday, November 24, 2006If you have not previously seen the Aventurine site, you have a treat awaiting you. If you need to estimate the cost of a mining activity, you have to get Sherpa software. read more » Bradbury and AssociatesTuesday, November 7, 2006Bradbury and Associates’ MPM4 system contains all the aspects that you need to track any size equipment fleet. MPM4©(E) has an interface between the maintenance and production tracking modules read more » DEM SolutionsMonday, November 06, 2006As so often, John Chadwick and International Mining are ahead. In the article Process Control, John provides this news of movements in the world of advanced software and engineering read more » Longwall Visual AnalysisMonday, October 30, 2006Longwall Visual Analysis (LVA) is a 3D longwall monitoring program designed to help maintain a high level of safety and production. It monitors the pressures of a longwall and compares these against other cycles and data. read more » SoilVision ProfessionalThursday, October 19, 2006SoilVision Professional provides database functionality with the benefit of laboratory data on over 6000 soils. The database is designed to provide a central data warehouse for soils data read more » MineGeoFriday, September 29, 2006MineGeo software provides real time mine geology mapping and includes a MineGeotechnical module. The ability to display all or selected classes of lithology data and features read more » |
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