STRATEGIC MINE PLANNING & DESIGN

Prepare a better mine plan, optimize production, & de-risk your

operations
 UNCOVER THE REAL
LIFETIME ECONOMIC
POTENTIAL OF YOUR MINE
CORE BENEFITS
Determine the optimal strategic mine plan that delivers on
corporate objectives by:
• Simulating thousands of operational scenarios
quickly and easily with parametric models
• Modeling sensitivity to changes in assumptions and
input parameters
• Creating a strategic plan that mitigates market
uncertainty and attracts capital investment

THE OPTIMIZED SCENARIO IS NOT ALWAYS

THE OPTIMAL SOLUTION
The mining industry is an unpredictable business. For mine planners who must design a mine to operate for decades, it can be
tricky to accurately account for the uncertainty of their inputs. Metal prices are volatile. Market conditions change over time. Costs
aren’t constant. How do you plan for a mine to produce sustained value throughout its lifetime?

Traditional strategic mine planning solutions are good at providing an optimized solution that maximizes Net Present Value
(NPV). However, this ideal scenario is a balancing act. It relies on the best possible inputs in order to be successful. And it’s highly
sensitive to variations. Any deviation from the plan could cause a huge drop in value.
SIMULATE SCENARIOS AND MODEL SENSITIVITY
TO CREATE A ROBUST STRATEGIC PLAN
Mine planners need to develop a strategic plan that is robust and can withstand fluctuations to the core assumptions around
their inputs. To do this, they must have a range of simulated scenarios that can be used to adjust the strategic plan. The goal
is to simulate and evaluate as many outcomes as possible, flexing all major decisions, assumptions, and input variables.

Strategic Mine Planning and Design from Dassault Systèmes can run thousands of multi-variant simulations across any range
of different variables to represent all possible outcomes. It also has the analysis tools to help narrow down a shortlist of
strategic plans for you to focus on that provide sustained value throughout the life of mine, even if conditions change.

With Strategic Mine Planning, you can determine mining method, sequence extraction, processing plant configuration,
stockpile and dumping requirements. It also helps you select equipment, create financial models, produce a life-of-mine plan,
simulate geo-mechanical rock behavior, and generate planning scenarios.

YOUR EXPECTED OUTCOME

Strategic Mine Planning and Design solutions help mining companies reduce design time by up to 50% and maximize NPV
by up 20% through improved efficiency. Plus, the strong integration and collaboration capabilities on the 3DEXEPRIENCE
platform connect mine planning solutions with all aspects of the mining value chain to facilitate transparency and empower
confident decision-making.
HOW IT WORKS
Strategic Mine Planning and Design consists of seven business
processes to help you develop the optimal blueprint for
exploiting your mineral resource.

DEFINE OBJECTIVES, KPIS, AND CONSTRAINTS

• Aggregate all data into a central location
• Leverage historical data to correctly define mining
parameters used in pit optimization and scheduling
• Integrate and interpret data from multiple sources to
ensure key parameters are accurately defined
• Monitor the latest news on emerging markets, politics,
and metal forecast pricing

CUSTOMER BENEFITS
• Increase confidence in inputs
• Reduce scenario rework and analysis time

PUSHBACK SEQUENCE STRATEGY

• Simulate thousands of mining sequence combinations and
starting points to establish the best digging strategy
• Use pushback sequencing precedents to explore the
impact of exploitation scenarios and their relationship to
infrastructure
• Evaluate the overall mining strategy and sequence of the mine

CUSTOMER BENEFITS
• Maximize NPV
• Increase feasibility of pushback scenarios
• Improve understanding of different exploitation
possibilities

ULTIMATE PIT & PRACTICAL PUSHBACK OPTIMIZATION

• Determine the cut-off value that maximizes the value of
the reserves
• Identify the optimal size and shape of the ultimate open
pit for the economic envelope
• Select practical pushback based on cash flow, stripping
ratio, and other strategic parameters
• Generate more practical pushbacks that can realistically be
implemented, minimizing the operational deviation in design

CUSTOMER BENEFITS
• Maximize NPV
• Increase in optimal size of reserves
• Decrease in pre-striping investment
• Reduce risk on cash flow
• Minimize the operational deviation in design
ROBUST SCALE OF PRODUCTION
• Execute and evaluate thousands of plans with various
parameter optimizations, such as cut-off grade as well
as mining and processing capabilities, together with their
respective CAPEX investment
• Incorporate price uncertainty with which it is possible to
identify the impact of each configuration
• Reduce the risk of large capital projects by quickly running
iterations on various scenarios to test the sensitivity of
input parameters

CUSTOMER BENEFITS
• Maximize NPV
• Implement more robust scale of production
• Increase investment efficiency
• Improve analysis of uncertainty
• Reduce time of scenario analysis
• Reduce risk

SIMULTANEOUS OPTIMIZATION
• Generate simultaneous optimization of sequencing, cut-
off grade, stockpile strategy, and blending
• Report tons, grade, and materials throughout the life of mine
• Create financial models, budgets, and reports for project
evaluation and use in downstream tactical plans

CUSTOMER BENEFITS
• Maximize NPV
• Increase transparency and accuracy of results
• Reduce time to analyze alternatives

PREPARE FINANCIAL MODELS

• Forecast future production tons and grades with monthly,
quarterly, and yearly plans
• Report tons, grades, and materials throughout the life of mine
• Create financial models, budgets, and reports

CUSTOMER BENEFITS
• Increase transparency and accuracy of results
• Improve visual identification of issues within the
scenario
SHARE AND COLLABORATE
• Share and collaborate data through a central platform
GEOVIA OUTCOME-BASED SERVICES
• Visualize the life of mine plan with dashboards illustrating
important KPIs Looking for support to accelerate your
next successful mining project? Dassault
• Allow users to interrogate and filter the strategic plan by
Systèmes offers outcome-based services
multiple fields to ensure accuracy
to help you achieve your business goals
more quickly.
CUSTOMER BENEFITS Here’s how it works: First, we partner with
• Increase confidence in the strategic plan you to understand your desired outcomes,
challenges, and pain points. Next, we
• Improve collaboration using a single source of truth work with your team to identify a solution
• Improve stakeholder and executive understanding based on best practices that leverages
our industry-leading suite of digital tools.
Finally, we take accountability for your
desired outcomes to ensure we achieve

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WANT TO LEARN MORE?

Strategic Mine Planning and Design helps decision-makers future-proof their mine, mitigate risk, and inspire confidence in
the plans that will drive their projects for decades to come. By simulating thousands of operational scenarios, planners can
determine a robust mine plan that will maintain profitability throughout the life of mine, even if metal prices or costs increase.
And when market conditions inevitably change, mine planners will know how to adjust the strategic plan since it has already
been simulated.
To learn more about how to leverage the Strategic Mine Planning and Design solution to create sustainable strategic plans for
your operation, contact GEOVIA.info@3ds.com.

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