Connected planning workflows, built around real mine planning roles
Datamine Planning Bundles give every planner the connected toolkit they need in one subscription. Link design, optimisation, scheduling and survey workflows in one connected workflow. Save up to 33% versus standalone licences while improving planning outcomes.
How we empower Mine Planning Professionals
strategic mine planner
From strategic studies to long-range optimization in one connected toolchain. Optimize value, test scenarios fast, and keep strategic outputs governed through MineTrust—so downstream teams work from trusted plans.
✓ Pit & phase optimisation to maximise value under constraints
✓ Strategic NPV scheduling with scenario comparison
✓ Economic sensitivity testing for risk-informed decisions
✓ MineTrust governance for version control and audit-ready outputs
Includes: MineTrust, Studio OP, Studio NPVS, Studio UG, MSO, DTS, and Minemax Tempo.
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Operations planner
From design updates to execution-ready schedules in one continuous loop. Keep daily, weekly, and monthly plans aligned—then refresh designs, re-sequence schedules, and connect drill & blast without breaking governance or losing time to rework.
✓ Practical OP/UG design updates for rapid replanning
✓ Detailed tactical scheduling (daily/weekly/monthly)
✓ Medium-term scenario evaluation to align strategy to execution
✓ Drill & blast integration, backed by MineTrust data confidence
Includes: MineTrust, Studio OP, Studio UG, DTS, Minemax Tempo, Aegis, DataBlast, MSO.
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surveyor / technician
From fast daily pickups to controlled spatial reporting and reconciliation—inside one connected workflow. Capture, edit, calculate volumes, and close out period-end reconciliation with confidence, while MineTrust keeps survey data validated, traceable, and ready for planning teams.
✓ Daily survey capture, validation, and topography updates
✓ Spatial edits, plotting, and repeatable reporting outputs
✓ Volumetrics and period-end reconciliation support
✓ MineTrust governance for controlled updates and audit-ready data
Includes: Studio Survey, MineTrust
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Planning Applications
Where, what, and when to invest in mining the resource.
 Studio NPVS+ |  Minemax Scheduler |
Design and communicate the mining method, mine layout and spatial access to the reserve.
 Studio OP |  Studio UG |
 MineScape OPEN PIT |
The timing of extraction, what to mine it with, where to send material, what products to produce.
| MineScape LRS | MineScape TS |
| Minemax Tempo |  DTS"Datamine Task Scheduler" is used with both Studio UG and OP |
How to prepare the material for efficient mining and processing.
 DataBlast |  Aegis |
 MineScape D&B |
Spatial support and, managing the accuracy and reconciliation of actual plan.
| MineScape SURVEY |  Studio Survey |
 Amine |
How to manage and execute operational activities to deliver according to plan.
 Ordo |
Why mining operations choose our solutions
Get the tools each role actually needs under one licence—Strategic, Operations, or Survey—without over-licensing full standalone stacks. Mix bundles per site and scale up or down as teams and rosters change.
Design, optimisation, scheduling, drill & blast, and survey don’t need to live in separate tools. A connected workflow reduces handover friction, eliminates duplicate setup, and keeps planning outputs aligned across time horizons.
When inputs change, you can update designs and refresh schedules faster—supporting rapid scenario evaluation for long-range planning and quick re-sequencing for tactical operations, so decisions rely on current outputs, not yesterday’s files.
MineTrust provides validation, version control, and a single source of truth. Teams work from trusted datasets, changes are traceable, and outputs are easier to defend—supporting better collaboration across planning and survey.
Move from “a plan on paper” to a plan crews can run. Integrated tactical scheduling plus drill & blast alignment improves operational readiness, while survey-driven reconciliation supports continuous improvement and better confidence in the next planning cycle.
FAQs
Datamine planning solutions help teams design, optimise, schedule and communicate mine plans across strategic, tactical and operational timeframes.
They connect optimisation, design, scheduling, drill and blast, survey, governance and production planning, helping teams reduce rework, manage assumptions and work from trusted planning data.
Datamine supports planning workflows from long-term optimisation to execution-ready planning.
This can include strategy, open pit and underground design, tactical and operational scheduling, drill and blast design, survey and spatial reporting. These workflows help teams move away from disconnected tools and into a controlled planning process.
Yes. Datamine supports open pit and underground planning workflows.
Teams can use Datamine tools for pit or stope optimisation, open pit or underground design, scheduling, drill and blast, and survey-driven reconciliation. This helps align planning work with the mining method, commodity and planning horizon.
Datamine planning workflows connect geological inputs such as block models or geotechnical parameters to design criteria and scheduling outputs through governed data management.
This ensures mine planners are building design and schedule outputs based on the most accurate information available. It also gives teams a clearer link between the model, the plan and the schedule.
Datamine supports scenario planning across strategic planning, design iteration, and medium-term evaluation. Teams can compare outputs graphically, spatially, and numerically in rich, configurable interfaces. This helps planners test options before decisions are made and refresh plans when geology, equipment, access or production priorities change.
Datamine supports planning across all horizons.
Long-term planning focuses on strategy, optimisation and life-of-mine schedules. Medium-term planning translates strategy into a 6 month-to-five-year view for budgets, milestones and sequencing. Short-term planning converts that direction into higher detailed monthly, weekly and daily execution plans that can respond to changing site conditions.
MineTrust inside Datamine workflows supports planning data confidence through governance, validation, version control and traceability.
It helps teams understand which input data was used, what changed and which planning outputs are approved. This supports audit-ready workflows when planning assumptions, scenarios and outputs need to be reviewed, shared or defended.
Datamine planning workflows connect mine design and scheduling with drill and blast planning.
Aegis (underground) and DataBlast (open pit) both support drill and blast design, timing and reporting, while scheduling and design tools keep tactical plans aligned with operational constraints. This helps reduce handover friction between planning and execution teams.
Datamine planning workflows enable strategic option analyses, reporting of reserves, justification of capital expenditures and expansions, and mine plan physicals to support budget cycle schedules.
This supports clearer communication between planning, finance and executive leadership to enable confidence in making major decisions.
Yes. Datamine planning workflows can connect planned outputs with survey, production and reconciliation feedback.
This helps teams understand schedule variance, production shortfalls and operational constraints. These insights can then support the next planning cycle and improve confidence in future plans.
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how to start the improvement process
Meet with us to map your current state, business goals and operational requirements.
We’ll demonstrate a software solution designed to meet your needs, present our commercial proposal and provide relevant supporting materials.
When you purchase our solution, we collaboratively design and deliver your tailored project implementation plan.
During your implementation and beyond, our support experts can help you make the most of your software solutions.
Meet with us to map your current state, business goals and operational requirements.
We’ll demonstrate a software solution designed to meet your needs, present our commercial proposal and provide relevant supporting materials.
When you purchase our solution, we collaboratively design and deliver your tailored project implementation plan.
During your implementation and beyond, our support experts can help you make the most of your software solutions.