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 PITRAM Adds Value in Tough Economic ClimateMonday, November 16, 2009Despite operating in an increasingly challenging economic environment, Micromine Pty Ltd has emerged as one of the few mining and exploration software providers still investing considerably in Research and Development read more » Micromine’s PITRAM3 Awarded as Top Mining SolutionWednesday, October 14, 2009Micromine has been honoured at this year's Mining Magazine 2009 Awards, in recognition of their PITRAM3 mine planning and control solution. read more » Micromine Awarded for Excellence in EngineeringMonday, October 05, 2009Micromine, the leading provider of innovative software solutions and services to the mining and exploration industry, has added another award to their expanding list of accolades at the 2009 WA Industry and Export Awards. read more » Cost breakingWednesday, September 30, 2009Fragmentation within the mine is often overlooked as a critical element in the process and can be used to provide essential process control information. SPLIT digital fragmentation technology has been available for some time, with applications from the mine with post-blast analysis at the muck pile face through to the mechanical comminution circuit with ... read more » Gemcom Announces New Human Logistics ProductWednesday, September 23, 2009Gemcom Software International Inc. today announced that it has incorporated a new Human Logistics product into its award-winning Gemcom InSite operational performance management product line. read more » Latest Version of Gemcom Whittle Delivers Capabilities Required to Develop More Robust Mine PlansWednesday, September 02, 2009Gemcom Software International Inc. today announced that it has released Gemcom Whittle(tm) 4.3, the latest version of its industry leading strategic mine planning software for open pit mines. read more » Gemcom Delivers End-to-End Software Solution for Coal and Other Stratified Deposits with Release of Gemcom Minex 6.0Monday, August 31, 2009Gemcom Software International Inc. today announced the release of Gemcom Minex(TM) 6.0, the only integrated end-to-end mining software specifically designed for coal and other stratified deposits such as lignite, phosphate, bauxite, iron ore, and platinum. read more » EDEM 2.0: Setting the benchmark for Particle SimulationThursday, May 07, 2009DEM Solutions today announce the latest release of EDEM, primed to set the benchmark in particle simulation modeling software. read more » Geomorphic Reclamation of Uranium Mill TailingsTuesday, April 21, 2009Review of a paper on the use of a computer code to design and construct reclamation works for abondoned uranium mill tailings piles in Wyoming. read more » Carlson Natural Regrade For Sustainable ReclamationThursday, February 12, 2009The state of New Mexico's Abandoned Mine Land Program recently announced that they awarded a state contract to Water and Earth Technologies Inc. of Fort Collins, Colo., to identify methods to protect the public and environment from hazards posed by abandoned coal mines at Vermejo Park Ranch. read more » Carlson Natural Regrade Wins INTERMAT Silver Innovation AwardTuesday, January 27, 2009Intermat officials recently announced that Carlson Software's Natural Regrade land reclamation software won a Silver Award in the Services Category of their Innovation Awards. read more » Senior Mincom Executive Joins Gemcom as Mining Industry Seeks Solutions to Improve Efficiency and Control CostsMonday, January 26, 2009Gemcom Software International Inc. today announced that Allen D. Vaughn has joined the Company as executive vice president of its enterprise business unit.
read more » Turnpoint Solutions Joins Mainpac Partner Program To Provide North American EAM ServicesTuesday, November 25, 2008Turnpoint Solutions, LLC announced today that it has partnered with Mainpac to provide consulting, systems implementation and integration services for Mainpac customers in the North American marketplace. read more » Micromine Awarded for Industry ExcellenceMonday, November 10, 2008Micromine has recently been recognised and awarded at the Western Australian Industry & Export Awards, and by Business Review Weekly (BRW) and Australian Mining. read more » Benetech Speeds up Simulation Times with Investment in EDEMWednesday, October 29, 2008DEM Solutions announced today that Benetech, Inc. is implementing a perpetual license for the use of DEM Solutions’ EDEM modeling software. read more » FLSmidth Invest in EDEM SoftwareFriday, October 17, 2008DEM Solutions is pleased to announce that FLSmidth has invested in EDEM software to simulate bulk handling and production processes during the design stage of product development and general research. read more » Blasting and Fragmentation Software from BlastwareMonday, September 29, 2008From Blastware comes new software to simulate the charge delay times involved in blasting. read more » New From Carlson Software: Carlson Mine FinancialsMonday, September 22, 2008Carlson Mine Financials from Carlson Software enables scheduling and tracking of all mining resources and activities – work crews, in-use and non-assigned equipment, supplies, fuel, labor and miscellaneous costs – to determine the most cost effective and efficient ways to achieve desired results. read more » Turnpoint Solutions Launches EAM Consulting ServicesThursday, September 18, 2008Turnpoint Solutions announced today that it recently appointed Mark Dees as Vice President of Business Development, underscoring Turnpoint’s recent expansion of EAM consulting services for additional markets. read more » InfomimetThursday, August 28, 2008Here is a link to a fascinating site from Brazil. I refer to Infomimet which describes itself as an “important information source for the mining, mineral and metallurgical sectors in the context of sustainable development.” read more » Protection Engineering Consultants Chooses DEM Solutions EDEM Software to Model Alternative Runway Arresting BedsWednesday, August 20, 2008DEM Solutions is pleased to announce that Protection Engineering Consultants has chosen to add DEM Solutions’ EDEM software to software solutions used in their multi-hazard assessment and protective design consulting work. read more » 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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