Delivering the Digital Mine

Introduction: Centric Mining Systems

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A mining focused Years of combined Championing the Innovators challenging
organization first and geology, mining, and “digital mine” for 20 the industry to ask new
foremost. surveying experience. years. questions of data.

Centric creates opportunities for business

improvement through the rapid
transformation of data into knowledge
• Efficient and immediate access and visibility
to crucial metrics improves your decision
making capabilities
• Understand what is happening within your
business and why with confidence
• Unveil trends and achieve mine-wide clarity
and insight to enhance operations on the fly
The Problem: Unrealized Opportunities
Mining has failed to capitalize on highly integrated knowledge management
systems. Their implementation of technology has not fundamentally improved
the business.

Data Overload: You Can’t Easily Ask New Questions:

More and more data is Architecture is designed by ‘data owners’
collected but still doesn’t deliver rather than ‘data architects’, making
value to the business. cross business analytics near impossible.

Must Use A Data Scientist: Too Late To Do Anything Useful:

When you do want to ask new questions, By the time you get the data and
or even answer the old ones, it’s a lengthy, processes in place to ask those
expensive, and frustrating process. questions, it’s likely too late.
Creating the Ecosystem
Centric is a Mine Information Ecosystem, which centralizes and organizes data, optimizes workflows, applies
specific mining logic, and rapidly generates knowledge and wisdom at an operational and executive level with
sophisticated decision support tools. The business can now easily analyze key operating metrics and
performance indicators from model to market.
Step 1: Data Acquisition

Material
Planning Mining Logistics Management Processing Maintenance HSE ERP

Step 2: Data Organization & Validation

Mine Information System

Step 3: Decision Support

Dashboards Excel Add-In Active Analytics Reconciliation Stockpile 3rd Party

& Reports Notifications Management Apps
How We Do It
The Ecosystem is built by integrating existing systems, facilitating data from external file
sources, and removing isolated data management solutions.
1. Integrate 2. Import 3. Centric Digital Forms

Integration occurs through the use
of data or web services, APIs, or
direct database integrations.
 FMS: Wenco, Modular,
Minestar, Ivolve, Jigsaw
 ERP: SAP, JD Edwards, Pronto
 Scada: OSI PI, GE Historican
 GMS: Datamine, Surpac
 LIMS : AssayNET, CCLAS
 Deswik
 Surface Manager
Facilitate import/export of files Data is entered manually through
depending on the capabilities of Centric’s flexible, configurable,
the system we are pulling/pushing web-based data capture forms.
data to/from. These forms can be designed to
capture any type of data you
require.
 Excel  Drill & Blast Log Sheets
 CSV  Mine Supervisor Log Sheets
 XML  Equipment Operator Log
 Image Files Sheets
 PDF  Plant Processing Log Sheets
 Certificates  HSE
 MineSched  Consumables Tracking
 Sampling Information
Outcome: Simple Workflows - The Centric Desktop
Centric provides each user or user group access to workflows, applications, management tools and visualization
from a homepage customized to suite their requirements. Log in to Centric and see exactly what you need to start
your day.
Outcome: Model to Market Ore Tracking
Centric’s Inventory Manager uses metrics from all verticals (geology, engineering, mining, plant and marketing) to
provide the most accurate picture of ore movements, blasted and stockpiled inventories, and contained metals.
Blending tools allow for controlled mill feed to met grade or metallurgical requirements.
Outcome: Model to Market Reconciliation
Centric’s highly integrated Mine Information Ecosystem facilitates efficient, repeatable and verifiable production
and metals reconciliation to measure performance, and hold your resource model to account.
Outcome: Decision Support: Analytics and Reporting
Centric’s powerful dashboarding and analytical tools provide visualizations, ad hoc analysis and automatic report
distribution from a single source of verifiable truth without the need for special DBA or BI skills.

o Provides rapid development and deployment of

individual or team visualizations and reports
o Fully integrated to 3rd party BI (PBI, Tableau)

o Auto-distribution (email) of reports and

dashboards to all levels of stakeholders
o Multisite, multi-time zone support
o Powerful Driver tree and KPI analysis tools
Outcome: Decision Support: Business Drivers
Highly integrated information management environment delivers the most accurate and up to date KPIs from
across the enterprise allowing for an understanding of what is impacting your success.
Outcome: Decision Support: Notifications

Create notifications based on any data-driven

event found within Centric, so that you are
made aware of vital information immediately
via text message or email. For example,
receive an email when fleet utilization drops
below a certain threshold, or when a stockpile
is being over dug. Be notified when you’re due
for training, or when important sample results
have arrived. Learn about challenges as they
happen so that you can solve them
immediately.
Outcome: Decision Support: Predictive Analytics

Centric is working to incorporate

advanced data analytics which
can include AI and machine
learning concepts to build ‘what-if’
scenarios. This allows you to
model and optimize perspective
outcomes and achieve optimal
results. You can essentially
predict the future of your
business.
Outcomes
Centric will transform your mining operation as others
industries have transformed themselves.
• Faster decisions using knowledge that is is generated
efficiency and accuracy
• Total visibility of product from the model to the market
• Higher accountability and confidence in knowledge being used
from reporting and decision making
• Staff more focused on delivering value rather than playing with
spreadsheets
• New opportunities to improve the business through advanced
analytics
• Sustainable and scalable processes no matter what changes in
the business
• Platform to move to predictive and prescriptive analytics
Real World Outcomes

Production Management: North American Palladium, Lac des

One Source of Truth: Australian multi-site Iron Ore/Lithium
Iles

Challenges Extensive use of spreadsheets Challenges Mill running at half capacity

Low productivity Large low grade resource
Inability to identify improvement opportunities Pressure to reduce costs
Lack of visibility to key business drivers
Results Savings of over $1,000,000 by eliminating in-house Results 50% increase in production
systems, other reporting systems, and support personnel Decrease in production costs
Productivity increase of 40% - based on amount of time Better blending resulting in small variables in performance
spent in spreadsheets to plan
Data quality improved Fast, accurate decision making
Decision making time shortened
Product quality improved

Inv Manager/Recon: Underground Australian Copper Mine Reconciliation: Fortescue Metals Group

Challenges Different data sets per person Challenges No control of ore tracking/inventory management
Reactive stockpile samples Delivering product to customer without knowing
Single grade without weighting quantity/quality
Bias depending on visual estimates of grade
Bias on impact of paste and waste dilution
Results Quick analysis of stope depletion Results Near-real time control of ore movements, blending &
Bias methodologies made transparent reconciliation from model to market (2 mining hubs and one
Restriction on visual methods stopped additional stockpile port)
sampling = $30K/month saving
Thank You

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