Resource Extraction Simulator

The Problem

Mine planning is full of trade-offs. Dig the high-grade ore first and your cash flow looks good early, but you might sterilise lower benches or create access problems later. Change your truck fleet allocation and you affect both production and fuel costs. These decisions get made in planning meetings using a mix of experience, engineering judgement, and whatever the scheduling software spat out last week. Testing a different approach means re-running the schedule manually, which takes days. So most alternatives never get tested.

How It Works

The Resource Extraction Simulator takes your geological block model, equipment fleet data, and operational constraints and runs scenarios quickly. Want to know what happens if you defer a cutback by three months? Or if you add a second excavator to the south pit? Or if you change the ore-to-waste ratio target? The agent models it and shows you the production, cost, and schedule impacts before you commit real machines and real money.

It connects with mine planning tools like Deswik, MineSched, and Maptek Evolution, pulling in the data your planning team already maintains rather than requiring a parallel model.

Better Decisions, Faster

The value here is not in replacing your mine planners — it is in giving them more time to think. When running a scenario takes minutes instead of days, your planning team can actually explore alternatives. They can pressure-test the base case plan against weather delays, equipment breakdowns, or grade surprises. That kind of scenario analysis is where the best planning teams already want to spend their time, but rarely get to because the mechanics of re-running a schedule eat up the week.

If your mine planning process could use more scenario testing, get in touch about building a simulation agent for your operation.