Case Study: Gold Fields achieves faster geospatial market intelligence with Mechanical Rock

Gold Fields A geospatial market intelligence platform

The mining company Gold Fields faced the challenge of staying competitive by identifying new greenfields opportunities, a process hindered by the immense manual effort required to collate and analyze disparate, up-to-date geospatial market data. To overcome this, they partnered with vendor Mechanical Rock to develop a proof-of-concept for an automated, centralized data intelligence platform.

Mechanical Rock built a real-time data platform that automated the ingestion of both proprietary and non-traditional data sources into a data warehouse, using AWS and Postgres Aurora for processing and display. The solution provided Gold Fields with a dynamic dashboard for geospatial visualization and predictive analytics, which surfacing insights faster and enabling quicker, data-driven decisions on new terrain opportunities.

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