Frequently Asked Questions

Quick answers about Datamine and our solutions across the mining value chain.
1. Can Datamine support tenement and compliance workflows?

Yes. Datamine supports tenement and compliance workflows through Landtrack and connected exploration data management. Teams can manage mineral titles, tenure-related agreements, environmental conditions, reporting obligations and expenditure tracking.

This helps reduce the risk of missed obligations, loss of title and disconnected compliance records.

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2. How does Datamine support geophysical data analysis?

Datamine supports geophysical analysis through PA Explorer. Teams can visualise, compare and interpret geophysical data using profiles, maps and 3D displays, while working with multiple data formats in one environment.

This helps geologists combine geophysics with spatial and drillhole data for targeting, interpretation and communication.

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3. How does Datamine help geologists query, review and share exploration data?

Datamine helps geologists query, review and share data through enterprise-level spatial and geological data management workflows.

Teams can access current information, check data quality, prepare exports and share updates across departments. This supports collaboration when multiple projects, offices or stakeholders need access to the same exploration data.

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4. Can Datamine support multi-site or multi-commodity exploration projects?

Yes. Datamine can support exploration teams working across multiple sites, commodities and project stages by keeping data structured, accessible and governed.

Teams can consolidate exploration information, reduce local file dependency and share up-to-date data across the organisation, helping projects stay consistent as programmes expand.

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5. How does exploration data support later planning, production and reconciliation?

Exploration data supports later decisions when it stays traceable through geological modelling, resource estimation, mine planning, laboratory workflows and production reconciliation.

Datamine helps connect the mining data lifecycle so teams can understand where technical assumptions came from, compare outcomes and improve future models, plans and decisions.

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1. What are Datamine’s role-based planning bundles?

Datamine’s role-based planning bundles are packaged subscriptions designed around specific mine planning roles.

Each bundle gives a role the tools needed for day-to-day work under one licence. This helps teams align software access with real responsibilities and reduce over-licensing across strategic, operations and survey roles.

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2. Which role-bundle should a strategic mine planner choose?

The Strategic Planner Package is designed for long term mine planners, life-of-mine planners, strategic mine planning engineers and technical services leads.

It supports pit and phase optimisation, stope optimisation, comprehensive design, strategic NPV-driven scheduling, and scenario evaluation. It helps teams build decision models of their mine, determine the ideal operating strategy, and protect long-term value.

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3. Which role-bundle should a short term mine planner choose?

The Operations Planner Package is designed for short-term planners, medium-term planners, tactical planners, mine planning engineers, drill and blast engineers and production planning engineers.

It supports all practical design tasks as well as daily, weekly and monthly schedules. It also includes tools for drill and blast design and analysis.

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4. Which role-bundle should a surveyor choose?

The Surveyor Technician Package is designed for mine surveyors, survey technicians, spatial technicians and technical services teams. It supports daily pickups, topography updates, spatial reporting, CAD tasks, volume calculations, month-end reconciliation and audit-ready outputs, with MineTrust helping keep survey data validated and traceable.

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5. How can planning teams deploy role-based bundles across a site or portfolio?

Planning teams can depend on role-based bundles to support them in steady state or dynamic conditions as each bundle contains products linked to a specific seat. If rosters or responsibilities change, there is no need to seek additional licenses or share individual product entitlements, as the seat-based bundles include all software required to accomplish role-based tasks.

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6. How does Studio NPVS+ support strategic mine optimisation?

Studio NPVS+ supports strategic planning by helping teams optimise economic and mineable geometries of pits and phases, while also generating supporting mine schedules that honour constraints.

It helps strategic planners establish project value, compare scenarios and build outputs that can guide downstream design and scheduling, giving teams a clearer path from resource assumptions to long-term planning decisions.

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7. How does Minemax Scheduler support long-term scheduling?

Minemax Scheduler supports business strategy by helping teams evaluate the impact of various decisions on the overall value of a project through integrated optimisation of the mining operation.

It helps planners generate and compare multiple scenarios, understand trade-offs and create schedules that connect business objectives with practical mining constraints, supporting clearer decisions for life-of-mine planning.

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8. How does Studio OP support open pit design?

Studio OP supports open pit mine design with parametric tools for pit, phase, road, ramp and landform design.

It helps planners create or update designs, mine layouts and prepare inputs for scheduling and reporting, supporting faster replanning when assumptions, access, equipment or production priorities change.

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9. How does Studio UG support underground design and reserving?

Studio UG supports underground design and reserving for teams planning stopes, drives, levels, rooms, tunnels and corresponding dependencies.

It helps underground planners create practical layouts, define mining units and connect design work with scheduling and reserve reporting, so plans remain aligned with the selected mining method and operational constraints.

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10. How does MSO support stope optimisation?

MSO supports stope optimisation by generating practical stope shapes from geological models.

It helps underground teams generate the optimum mining shapes based on cut-off grades and other geotechnical parameters. MSO prepares inputs for design and scheduling, supporting more consistent decisions on what can be mined and how the underground plan should be developed.

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11. How does DTS support tactical scheduling?

DTS supports detailed tactical scheduling for daily, weekly and monthly mine plans.

It helps planners assign dependencies, assign equipment, determine sequencing, and build execution-ready schedules for open pit or underground operations. This helps teams connect planning assumptions with a practical progression through interactive Gantt chart views and reports.

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12. How does Minemax Tempo support medium-term scheduling?

Minemax Tempo supports medium-term and tactical scheduling.

It helps planners translate strategic direction into a more detailed, controlled view which includes haulage, stockpiling, blending, products and integrated waste dump sequencing. This gives operations teams a clearer bridge between life-of-mine strategy and short-term execution.

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13. How does DataBlast support open pit drill and blast?

DataBlast supports open pit drill and blast workflows, including blast design, loading, timing and reporting.

It helps drill and blast teams connect blast plans with mine design and scheduling, reducing handover issues and giving operations clearer information for material preparation and execution.

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14. How does Aegis support underground drill and blast?

Aegis supports underground drill and blast design, including ring design, blast timing and related analysis.

It helps underground teams prepare practical blast designs that align with mining layouts and production plans, supporting clearer handovers between design, scheduling and execution teams.

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15. How does Studio Survey support survey and reconciliation?

Studio Survey supports survey teams with spatial reporting, topography updates, volume calculations, CAD tasks and daily survey workflows.

It helps surveyors capture and maintain trusted spatial information, support month-end reconciliation and provide planning teams with validated data for design updates, reporting and plan-versus-actual review.

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16. How does MineTrust support planning data governance?

MineTrust supports planning data governance through validation, version control, traceability and a single source of truth.

It helps teams understand which data was used, what changed and which planning outputs are approved, making plans easier to review, share and defend across planning, survey and operations teams.

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17. How does MineScape Open Pit support open pit planning?

MineScape Open Pit supports open pit design and planning within MineScape workflows.

It’s rich environment helps teams design stratigraphic mine layouts, strips, or pits, define and simulate access, roads, and haulage requirements while connecting all spatial planning work with scheduling, survey and reporting activities.

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18. How does MineScape LRS support long-term scheduling?

MineScape Long Range Scheduler (LRS) supports long-term schedule optimisation within MineScape planning workflows.

It helps teams define ideal sequencing, material destinations, and blended product qualities while optimising schedule outputs that connect strategic planning assumptions with mine design, production targets and reporting requirements.

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19. How does MineScape TS support tactical scheduling?

MineScape TS supports tactical scheduling within MineScape workflows.

It helps planning teams translate longer-term direction into practical short-term schedules, align equipment requirements and assignment with constraints, and communicate planned activities to operations teams.

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20. How does MineScape D&B support drill and blast planning?

MineScape D&B supports drill and blast planning within the MineScape environment.

It helps teams prepare drill and blast designs including drill pattern layouts alongside mine design, survey and scheduling workflows, reducing the need to move data between disconnected systems and supporting clearer handovers to execution teams.

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21. How does MineScape Survey support survey workflows?

MineScape Survey supports survey workflows inside MineScape planning environments.

It helps survey teams integrate and manage spatial data, update topography/maps, support volume reporting and provide reconciled information back into design and scheduling workflows, helping planners work from current site information.

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22. How does Ordo support operational planning and execution?

Ordo supports operational planning and execution by helping teams manage shift activities and assignments needed to deliver against the plan.

It helps connect planned work with execution activities, giving operations and planning teams clearer visibility of priorities, progress and handover information.

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1. How do Datamine software solutions help manage stockpiles?

Datamine helps manage stockpiles by supporting visibility of stockpile inventory, material sources, movements, grades, balances and changes over time

This helps teams understand what material is available, where it is located, how it has been built or depleted, and whether stockpile values align with operational, survey, processing and accounting information. Better stockpile management supports better blending decisions, plant feed planning, inventory control, reconciliation and reporting confidence.

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2. What is mine production reconciliation?

Mine production reconciliation is the process of comparing estimated, planned and actual production results across the mine value chain.

It helps organisations understand differences between geological models, mine plans, mined material, stockpiles, plant feed, recoveries and final reported production.

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3. How do Datamine software solutions support production accounting?

Datamine helps organisations collect, validate, balance, approve and report production data through structured and auditable workflows.

This includes tonnes, grades, recoveries, inventories, stockpile movements and final production reporting, helping create a trusted source of truth for processing operations.

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4. How does Datamine connect production with geology and mine planning?

Datamine connects production with geology and mine planning by linking modelled expectations, planned targets and actual production results in a traceable workflow. This helps teams compare what the geological model predicted, what the mine plan expected and what was actually mined, moved, stockpiled, processed or reported.

This connection gives geologists, planners and operations teams a shared view of production performance, so they can identify where variances occur and understand whether they relate to model assumptions, planning decisions, operational execution, material movement or processing outcomes.

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5. How does Datamine reduce manual data handling in production workflows?

Datamine reduces spreadsheet dependency and manual data handling by integrating production data sources and digitising operational workflows.

This helps reduce duplication, improve consistency, strengthen data governance and give teams more time to focus on analysis and improvement activities.

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6. Can Datamine support multiple sites or complex operations?

Yes. Datamine supports production workflows across multiple operations, commodities and geographic locations.

Centralised production data and consistent workflows help organisations improve governance, visibility and reporting across sites and business units.

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7. How does Datamine support collaboration across production teams?

Datamine provides operations, geology, planning, processing, logistics, commercial and management teams with access to shared and governed production information.

Working from a common source of trusted data helps improve communication, alignment and decision-making across departments.

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8. How does Datamine support mine-to-market visibility?

Datamine connects production, processing, inventory, logistics and commercial workflows to provide visibility across the mining value chain.

This helps organisations understand how material moves from source to customer while maintaining traceability, accountability and confidence in reported outcomes.

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9. What Datamine products support production workflows?

Datamine Production Solutions can include:

  • Reconcilor for mine reconciliation and production transparency
  • Production Accounting for metallurgical accounting and production reporting
  • MineMarket for material tracking, inventory management, logistics and commercial workflows
  • Centric for operational control, performance monitoring, reporting and analytics

The right combination depends on each operation's production, processing, logistics and reporting requirements.

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10. What does Datamine Production Solutions support across the mining lifecycle?

Datamine supports production workflows from daily operations through to material tracking, processing, stockpile management, reconciliation, production accounting, logistics, commercial execution and reporting.

This connected approach helps maintain visibility and traceability across the production chain, from model to mine, and mill to market.

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11. Why choose Datamine for production workflows?

Datamine helps mining organisations connect production workflows, improve visibility and build confidence in operational data.

Rather than relying on disconnected systems, spreadsheets and manual processes, teams can work within a connected production environment that supports reconciliation, material tracking, production accounting, logistics and reporting.

The result is greater transparency, more consistent decision-making and trusted visibility across the mining value chain.

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12. How does Reconcilor support production workflows?

Reconcilor supports mine reconciliation by comparing estimated, planned and actual production results across the mine value chain.

It helps teams identify variances between geological models, mine plans, mined material, stockpiles and plant feed, improving visibility, traceability and confidence in production data. By providing a standardised reconciliation framework, Reconcilor helps teams understand where discrepancies occur and take action earlier to improve performance.

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13. How does Production Accounting support processing operations?

Production Accounting provides a structured and auditable approach to metallurgical accounting, mass balancing and production reporting.

It helps processing teams integrate data from multiple sources, validate production information, manage approvals and produce trusted reports. This gives metallurgists and plant managers greater visibility into plant performance, recoveries, inventories and production outcomes.

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14. How does MineMarket support mine-to-market workflows?

MineMarket helps organisations manage material tracking, inventory, logistics and commercial activities across the mining value chain.

It connects production, stockpiles, transport, shipments and contracts in a single workflow, helping teams improve traceability, strengthen inventory visibility and maintain alignment between operational and commercial outcomes.

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15. How does Centric support production operations?

Centric supports operational control, performance monitoring, reporting and analytics across mining operations.

By bringing operational, geological and business data together, Centric helps teams monitor performance, track activities, improve visibility and support more informed decision-making. It provides a shared view of operational performance across shifts, departments and sites.

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1. What can Datamine help laboratory teams do?

Datamine helps laboratory teams manage samples, results, QA/QC, approvals, reporting and traceability in one connected workflow.

It supports sample registration, preparation, analysis, instrument integration, data processing and reporting, helping teams reduce re-entry, improve visibility and keep laboratory data ready for downstream mining decisions.

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2. How does Datamine LIMS manage sample registration, preparation, analysis and reporting?

Datamine supports the full laboratory workflow by registering samples, organising job preparation, managing analyte preparation, capturing analysis data and preparing reports.

Datamine LIMS helps teams coordinate work, verify calculations, issue QC alerts, create certificates of analysis and support accurate reporting and invoicing.

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3. How does Datamine LIMS support laboratory reporting and certificates of analysis?

Datamine supports laboratory reporting by processing data, verifying calculations and preparing approved outputs.

Teams can create certificates of analysis, report QC status, share results through a client web portal and invoice customers accurately. This helps move results from analysis to approved communication in a more controlled workflow.

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4. How does Datamine LIMS support external labs, robotics and enterprise systems?

Datamine supports integration with external laboratories, robotics and enterprise systems.

Datamine LIMS can exchange data with external labs, interface with robotics for preparation and analysis, and send validated results into ERP, metal accounting and geological databases. This keeps connected teams aligned on one set of results.

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5. What does Datamine LIMS support in laboratory workflows?

Datamine LIMS supports sample registration, sample tracking, inventory management, instrument integration, workflow coordination, data processing, QA/QC, audit trails and reporting.
It helps laboratories manage the sample-to-report workflow, connect with external systems and move validated results into downstream mining systems with less re-entry and stronger traceability.

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6. How does CCLAS support laboratory sample management?

CCLAS helps laboratories manage the end-to-end sample lifecycle, from sample registration and tracking to preparation, instrument integration, QA/QC, reporting and invoicing.

It supports barcodes or QR code labels, audit trails, external system links and certificates of analysis, helping laboratories keep sample data traceable, controlled and ready for downstream mining decisions.

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7. How does AssayNet support sample-to-result workflows?

AssayNet helps laboratories manage sample-to-result workflows and connect validated results with other mining systems.

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