Case Study: a leading mining company speeds up short-term block modeling from weeks to hours with DataCloud

DataCloud sped up the short term block modeling process from weeks to hours with automation

DataCloud worked with a leading mining company that was struggling with a labor-intensive short term block modeling process. Their models were updated only once a year, leaving short term planning to rely on outdated, low-resolution information and causing frequent variances between predicted and actual mill recovery.

DataCloud implemented MinePortal with an automated flow of drilling data into a centralized data lake and cloud database, enabling automatic updates to grade control models, visualizations, reconciliation reports, and management reports. DataCloud also added conditional simulation uncertainty modeling, cutting the short term block modeling process from weeks to hours and reducing it to less than one day while improving decision-making with statistical confidence bounds.