WHITTLE

WHITTLE

WHITTLE

Product catalog summary
Overview: GEOVIA Whittle is a leading strategic mine planning software used by exploration and mining companies to evaluate the financial viability and optimal strategies for mining deposits. It is trusted for delivering robust mine plans that maximize profitability by considering real mining constraints.
Main Features:
  • Pit Optimization: The first step in unlocking economic potential, using the Lerchs-Grossman algorithm to generate optimized pit shapes.
  • Strategic Scheduling: Includes detailed cost, price, and recovery modeling, stockpiles, multiple mines, blending, and cut-off optimization.
  • Simultaneous Optimization: A groundbreaking tool that improves NPV by optimizing pit phases, cut-off, and stockpile strategy simultaneously.
Project Phases and Benefits:
  • Exploration: Economic evaluation to understand deposit value and target future drilling areas.
  • Scoping: Establishes economic viability and development strategies, examining sensitivities for future studies.
  • Pre-feasibility/Feasibility: Identifies preferred development strategy, capital investment, and optimal extraction sequence.
  • Bankable Feasibility Study: Analyzes expected ROI, investment risk, and multiple scenarios for risk reduction.
  • Production: Determines strategic direction, re-evaluates mine plans, and calculates annual reserve statements.
Benefits:
  • Comprehensive toolset for pit optimization and strategic mine planning.
  • Ability to evaluate different scenarios and trade-offs for robust strategic plans.
  • Integrated workflow from pit optimization to life-of-mine scheduling and sensitivity analysis.
Conclusion: Whittle is a trusted solution for maximizing deposit value, offering a unique structure for project management and analysis, ensuring repeatability and accessibility of information.
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THE WORLD’S MOST TRUSTED STRATEGIC MINE PLANNING SOFTWARE

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TRUSTED RESULTS YOU CAN BANK ON PROJECT PHASE BENEFITS: • Understand the potential value of the deposit. • Establish the economic viability of the deposit and options for capital investment and development strategies. • Identify preferred development strategy, capital investment, expected NPV and optimal extraction sequence. Exploration Economic evaluation Economic evaluation • Determine strategic direction for the mine; cut-off grade and optimized cut-off grade; mining areas and extraction sequence per period; and development strategies for new mines and push backs. When exploration and mining...

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“Whittle helped us extend our bench across the orebody and come up with new cash flows. We have increased our ore reserves by more than 1.2 million tonnes in six months, and we expect extra years of production from the Youga mine.” — Samuel Takyi, Senior Mine Planning Engineer, Etruscan Resources Inc. Whittle provides the ability to rapidly evaluate many alternatives to ensure that variations from the expected are considered and potential deposit value is uncovered. at pit optimization through life-of-mine scheduling, to sensitivity analysis and final NPV calculations, all in an integrated workflow....

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SIMULTANEOUS OPTIMIZATION Simultaneous Optimization achieves greater overall NPV in a single step than multiple optimization mechanisms applied sequentially. the details of the design amongst peers, and throughout the mine organization. Mining and schedule optimization—simultaneous optimization Whittle provides essential functionality for pit optimization and benchmark scheduling, including: model import; reblocking functionality; slope modelling; best and worst case schedules and visualization; reporting; and export of results. Simultaneous optimization is the latest advancement in strategic...

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