Mineteck is a sophisticated software tool specifically designed for strategic mine planning in open-pit mining operations. It consolidates all aspects of strategic planning into a single platform, providing mining companies with a powerful solution to streamline and optimize their planning processes.

Conventional pushback design tools often generate impractical results, requiring extensive manual adjustments. In practice, a workable pushback design typically emerges from a semi-manual and complex process. Mineteck addresses this challenge with its unique pushback design algorithm, offering a significantly more efficient and automated alternative. This practical approach not only simplifies the generation of realistic pushbacks but also improves Net Present Value (NPV) outcomes while dramatically reducing the time and resources needed for open-pit mine planning.

Here are the key features of the tool:

Pit Optimization

Generate the adjusted shells for the automation of pushback design.

Automation of Pushback Design

• Minimal Mining Width Compliance: Mineteck ensures that the pushbacks meet the minimum mining width requirements.

• Pushback designs stay within the final pit shell.

• Integration of Pushback Design and Scheduling: The tool integrates pushback design with scheduling considerations. The pushback designs are tailored to fit the specific constraints and requirements of the overall mining schedule.

• Adjustment of Independent Groups: Mineteck allows users to adjust the minimal number of an independent group in the pushback design. This feature is aimed at reducing the fragmentation or scattering of pushbacks within each bench. By grouping pushbacks, the tool can potentially improve operational efficiency and reduce unnecessary movements during mining operations.

Mineteck's ability to not only automate and optimize pushback designs but also to ensure these designs are integrated with scheduling objectives.

Scheduling Optimisation

Minteck scheduler, utilizing Mathematical Programming (Mixed-Integer Linear Programming, MILP), optimizes mine planning to efficiently allocate resources and maximize economical return. The optimization process incorporates various factors, such as stockpiles, blending, and all aspects of constraints.

Here's a detailed constraints within Mineteck MILP framework: Constraints:

• The maximal sink rate for each pushback.

• The maximal advanced rate between pushbacks.

• The minimal and maximal cash flow.

• The minimal and maximal metal production.

• Mining capacity.

• Process capacity.

• The minimal and the maximal grades for process feed/blending.

• Pushback dependency.

• Stockpile limit.

• Existing stockpiles.

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