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Gemcom Minex" is the only integrated end-to-end software specifical ly designed for stratified deposits. Fully integrating all aspects of mining from exploration through rehabi litation, Minex ensures that your resources are evaluated accurately and mined efficiently, improving your productivity and profitability throughout the mining lifecycle. Developed in partnership with the mining industry, the software is employed by the world's largest mining companies.

inclined or curved faults, in normal or reverse fault environments.

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-":' Validation

tools including Jack Knifing

to help ensure confidence in the

accuracy of your geological models.
""i. Contouring, sectioning, 3D borehole,

Model the complete coal wash curve so that yield, ash and other analyses can be estimated across the entire deposit, and used in resource and reserves reports to simulate plant processes by area or schedule time.

statistics and histogram displays to

maximise resource presentation

to managers, mining engineers

or investors.

'-'i Multiple industry standard estimation tools, including an interface to GSLIB for kriging and conditional simulation.
""r Variogram modelling includes dynamic lag adjustment to help

Mine Planning
Minex mine planning functions are integrally linked to the geological model. Planning starts by defining the economic or best areas, so these areas can be targeted during the subsequent pit design phase. Once designed, the

Geological Modelling and Resource Evaluation

The basis of any mine plan is a reliable geological model. Minex offers comprehensive tools to help geologists manage data, model and quantify stratified deposits, with support for even the most complex faults.

identify the best variograms for the data.

lntegrated Data Management

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Connect seamlessly to corporate borehole data storage systems including Microsoft@ Access@ and SQL Server@, Oracle@, and acQuire-'.
Cross section through a faulted seam model, with borehole traces. 3D slice through faulted seam model.

-"r Comprehensive tools facilitate data validation, auditing and resource reporting to meet stock exchange and reporting requirements.
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lmport grids from space and tab delimited text files.

Carlson grid files and seam models as well as string data in AutoCAD@, including its 2010 file format.

'*:. import and export Vulcan and

""i' Manage the location of project input

and output files using Minex's file management tools.

Modelling
The key to accurate geological modelling is effective interpretation. Minex uses all available data (i.e. geophysics, qual ities, lithology, washability, and structural) to correlate and interpret the deposit.
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Repeatable, fast and accurate modelling tools build entire models, including seam floor, thickness, quality and other surfaces in minutes. Specialised tools for deposits with faults allow accurate modelling of

Borehole cross section filled with lithology, showing gamma and long spaced density geophysical signals, with seam correlation lines.

"Minex helps Cerrejon develop effective mine plans that can be utilised to rnake prudent business decisions. lt gives us an impor tant edge as we compete with other prcducers around the world. We are only as good as the vendors that serve us, and Cerrejdn is ver y for tunate to par tner with a company like Gerncom."

Steyen Sides, Vice President of TechnicalSeryrbes, Carbones del Cerrejan

reserves and quality data are stored in a database to provide fast access for viewing, editing and manipulation. Optimisation

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The Minex Pit Optimiser locates and generates a final pit that is break even at its limits, using the well-known Lerchs Grossman (LG) algorithm.

Mine designs are integrated with the geological model and optimisation output, enabling fast, accurate and timely designs. Minex dissects the deposit into a set of mining volumes using the intersection of benches, strips and blocks with the geological model.

Life of mine pit, ramp and dump design.

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Pit optimisation is ideal where pits are deep and the material in the sloping final highwall makes a vertical analysis difficult. For simpler flat lying deposits Minex provides both vertical and inclined strip ratio calculations.

Underground Mine Design

-'i Create detailed underground mine

designs using a set of rich and interactive tools that provide instant visualisation of your design as

for both open cut and underground mining to help you get the most from
your mine, while efficiently planning the costly extraction of waste material.
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Open Pit Mine Design

it unfolds. '*i Using the Underground Quick

Layout tool, create panels for either longwall or bord and pillar layouts based on panel configurations and working types with just a few keystrokes.
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'^: Powerful and easy to use Pit and Ramp Design tools allow manual or automatic generation of pits or dumps. Ramps are generated as the pit or dump is created, providing instant visualisation of
your project.

rich 3D graphic displays generated directly from Minex seam models, pit designs and reserves.

'-* Target Scheduling

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- Seek a volume or tonnage in a given scheduling period.

flexibility in the monitoring of schedules using "live" current period and historical charts and tables.

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Design a road or spoil pile on any existing mine topography, and easily patch this into existing surfaces.
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Display your mine design using the Underground 3D Reserves Display tool and colour each block based on a single color, working type or a quality variable. Compute your underground reserves values using a SQL file.

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Short-term Production
Minex provides you with a number of daily production tools:

extraction information as a schedule progresses to improve decision making and to save time by finding and resolving potential problems early in the scheduling process.
""i' "Play" any saved schedule to visualise it graphically. This effectively commun icates plans

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to management and operators,

and visually validates the plans practicality.

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Quickly and easily design blasts in 3D and upload to equipment for GPS drillingl control.

** Easily perform multiple "what-ifs"

by choosing a point in an existing schedule to create a branch where you can test an alternative scenario. Schedule reporting includes flexible and detailed reports that can be exported directly into Microsoft@ Excel@.

An underground mine design displaying the pillars as well as the boundary lines.

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Build maximum dumps to an elevation, a design surface (such as a permitted limit), or until a desired volume is achieved.
Design dragline dumps.

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Mine Scheduling
Effective mine scheduling is a critical part of any mining operation. Smart scheduling of layered deposits, using tools specifically designed for the task, can be the difference between
3D display of an underground mine design showing reserves coloured according to quality.

an operation being viable, and one being marginal or losing money. Minex provides numerous scheduling tools

Detailed lnteractive Schedule progressing, with overburden blast design.

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M*[me ffiehabiffitatiorx Minex's mine rehabilitation functions are integrally linked to other planning processes, allowing you to successfully
plan the construction and rehabilitation of final landforms. '": Staged dumps can be quickly designed from the excavation
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surface to an elevation or landform

design. Dump volumes can be progressively matched to the schedule period volumes ensuring the dumps are practical.
The Cross Section Rehabilitation

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The Spoil Reshaping tool smoothes mine dumps into a final landform that meets environmental limits while minimising reshaping costs. Minimise dozing while meeting elevation and slope restraints.

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tool simplifies the complex task of dozing down a truck shovel dump to form a final rehabilitation surface.

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cost savings in both landform design and dozer hours.

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