MineScape 2026 introduces a redesigned Start Page, new Rapid design tools, an advanced Long Range Scheduler, Digital Twin and Simulation capabilities, Sensitivity Analysis, major Tactical Scheduler upgrades, and broad CAD and UI improvements to enhance how you plan, design, and optimise mining operations.
The reimagined Start Page improves how you navigate and manage your work, with built-in search, favourites, and bookmarking making it easier to access products, apps, projects, and libraries. You can tailor the experience with a theme switcher and benefit from a layout designed to better reflect how you work, giving you more clarity and control from the moment you launch MineScape.
Within the Openpit product, the new Rapid Pit, Rapid Dump, and Rapid Ramp tools allow you to interact directly with pit and dump geometry and see changes instantly in CAD. Instead of working through slow, sequential steps, you can adjust parameters such as bench heights, batter angles, berm widths, and pushbacks in real time. Integration with Rapid Drive ensures haulage considerations are validated as your design evolves, helping you make faster, more informed decisions.
MineScape 2026 strengthens planning with the introduction of the Long Range Scheduler, which enables you to build scenario-based, multi-year mine plans optimised for Net Present Value. By incorporating costs, revenues, haulage effort, and operational constraints, you can focus on value rather than volume alone. Interactive charts, tile-based reports, and 3D CAD visualisation of block movement provide deeper insight into production trends and how value is generated across the life of mine.
The new Digital Twin and Simulation product allows you to model and analyse your operation using a combination of design, live, and simulated data. Applications such as the Cycle-Time Calculator, Haul Simulator, and GPS integration with Sodep Minetrack help you evaluate haulage performance, test operational changes, and monitor equipment movement in a 3D environment. Alongside this, the new Sensitivity Analysis tool within Pit Optimizer enables you to quickly assess how changes in price, cost, slope, and recovery impact pit design and project economics.
Enhancements to the Tactical Scheduler introduce more realistic operational modelling, including automated scheduling, quality and quantity targeting, scenario branching, equipment proximity alerts, and a unified equipment library. At the same time, improvements across CAD and the user interface deliver better usability and performance, with updated visuals, expanded geometry limits, new editing and selection tools, and broader data support. These updates, along with refinements across multiple modules, help streamline your workflows and improve consistency across the MineScape platform.
About MineScape
MineScape is a comprehensive suite of integrated solutions for open cut and underground mining operations, tailored for coal and stratigraphic deposits. It delivers extensive geological modelling and mine design functionality, making it a global leader in mine planning solutions. Used by resource geologists, site geologists, and mine planners, MineScape optimises efficiency by lowering costs, maximising mining operations, and saving valuable time. Designed to automate mine planning and geological analysis, it streamlines engineering processes, boosts productivity, and increases profit potential. With features like automated stratigraphic modelling, resource calculation, and integrated mine design tools, MineScape enhances decision-making accuracy and reduces unplanned work, providing confidence in mine planning and operations.
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