IT notebook: ARANZ Geo, Immersive Technologies
Staff reporter, 15 December 2011
NEW Zealand’s ARANZ Geo, developer of 3D geological modelling software Leapfrog Mining, has forged an alliance with mineral laboratory services group ALS Minerals to give “joint customers” fast and easy access to analytical data, certificates of analysis, and detailed drill core inspection results from anywhere in the world and while still working in a 3D modelling environment.
The collaboration through Leapfrog 2.4.2 and ALS’s Webtrieve allows an “unprecedented level of interrogation between the base data available to mining professionals and the predictive models they are required to produce”, according to ALS Global Minerals executive vice president Bruce McDonald.
“Geologists and engineers will be able to construct models, verify contacts, share concepts, and validate the continuity of geologic structures and grade profiles with a greater degree of assurance than ever before,” he said in a joint statement from the two companies.
ARANZ Geo chief executive officer Shaun Maloney said Webtrieve could now be accessed directly from a Leapfrog window, allowing users to rapidly visualise core data in 3D and access Webtrieve for checking and verification.
“It allows for fast and easy access to analytical data, certificates of analysis, and detailed inspection of drill core from anywhere in the world, while still working in the 3D modelling environment,” he said.
ARANZ Geo released Leapfrog 2.4.2 to market earlier this month.
NOT TO be outdone by South African rival Thoroughtec, Australia’s Immersive Technologies has put out an Oyu Tolgoi mine (Rio Tinto/Ivanhoe Mines) sanctioned statement saying it was supplying its new PRO3 mining equipment operator simulator training technology to the giant Mongolia copper-gold mine.
Thoroughtec announced earlier this year it had won an order to supply simulators to Oyu Tolgoi.
“Oyu Tolgoi is amongst the first mine sites in the world to purchase the new PRO3 simulator from Immersive Technologies,” Immersive said.
“The PRO3 is specifically designed for surface mining and initially will support operator training of Komatsu haul trucks at the Mongolian site. Together with the PRO3 simulator, the sale included a comprehensive training package incorporating a five-year gold support program, Custom Mine Site, TrainerAdvantage certification and Training Systems Integration programs. As well as training its Oyu Tolgoi workforce, Oyu Tolgoi is running the largest vocational training program ever established in Mongolia.”
Mine CEO Cameron McRae said in the statement the Immersive equipment would help make the mine’s operators among the best and safest in the world.
At least nine out of 10 employees at Oyu Tolgoi will be Mongolian once the mine is in production and it is said to be investing $US85 million dollars in training.
Also in the December 15 - 21, 2011 edition
- AFRICA
- Eritrea risk narrows Zara field
- ASIA DESK
- Not all good as gold in China
- AUSTMINE
- MST buys Nixon Communications
- BREAKING NEWS
- Abenab progress for Avonlea
- Alara advances
- Alcoa declares divi
- Alcyone search boost
- Better news for St Barb
- Black Fire complies
- Bu Dun Hua copper
- Chief sees higher rating for Endeavour
- Cockatoo extension
- Impala sacks drillers
- Industrea win
- Kingston shines
- Maiden Rosie resource
- More Bass trouble
- More concerns on uranium supply
- Nany option exercised
- Newcrest output up
- Palito reassessment
- Pegasus finds copper
- PGM output up
- Radar on track
- Redhill expands holding
- Rio in control
- River attraction for Silver Lake
- Southern Cross ready to move forward
- Stonehenge sets sights high
- Straits gain
- Strategic permit
- Tanoyan update for Reliance
- Trafford's exploration boost
- Two Rivers death
- Ventnor copper hits
- WA uranium policy
- West Rand mines to merge
- Windfall at lake
- Winmar attracts investor
- Yellowhead on track
- CENTRAL ASIA
- Can miners really side-step a war?
- COAL
- Mardon's new year wish
- CONSULTING
- Consultants see room to grow in 2012
- Lory leads SKM mining into new growth phase
- CONTRACTING
- Contracting briefs: Redpath, Thiess, Decmil
- FINANCE
- A golden path to Dubbo development
- Copper deficit a fixture for the future
- Kagara opts for safety first
- Money’s almost too tight to mention
- Terramin view expected to become clearer
- FORUM
- How the JORC and Valmin codes work
- More must buy into JORC discussion
- FROM THE CAPITAL
- Capital management will be key 2012 theme
- GOLD
- Loyal to the cause
- Upside seen despite Teranga downslide
- HEAVY METAL
- Atlas Copco expands mining range
- ISSUES
- State-run miners: best of a bad bunch
- MINING
- Independence gloom unwarranted
- MINING INTELLIGENCE
- 'tis the season (still) to be wary
- MINING IT
- Auto-money changes everything
- Innovation is the new black
- IT notebook: Devex receives certification
- IT optimists
- Mining IT: 2011 rebooted
- Mining IT: product releases to fill 2012 calendar
- XPAC to lead dynamic software revival
- PEOPLE
- People on the move: Gindalbie Metals, Abcourt Mines, Carbon Energy
- SOUTH AMERICA
- Chili backers like its prospects
- VIEW FROM THE WEST END
- Bitten on the bum by a Black Swan
