Company Announcement - Coal mines face unprecedented challenges. Stringent legislation governing production and emissions means companies demand unique software solutions. Those companies increasingly turn to MineSight because MineSight software meets those needs. MineSight offers coal-specific modeling features and selective mining options for reporting. It can handle both metallurgical and thermal coal deposits, and can report and model multiple coal types within each of these deposits. For block models, MineSight is the only software package that can model unlimited seams in one project. With greater spatial precision, Sub-Blocking enhances MineSight’s underground solution and makes modeling even the narrowest coal seams both quick and simple. And MineSight is the only software package with fully integrated haulage with multiple equipment allocation.

MineSight supports multiple types of block models – multiple ore percent for unequalled accuracy in complex geology, gridded seam models for stratiform deposits, and sub-blocked models for spatial precision.

“MineSight’s got a very long history in the coal business, and one of the primary drivers of the Teck Coal usage has been the development over the last 25 years of the geological modeling component,” said Eric Jensen, Director of Engineering for Canadian coal giant, Teck. “No other packages can touch MineSight. Basically it’s the only package out there that will model to the accuracy that we need. It’s the only package out there that will address all the issues around complex coal.”

Teck is among numerous companies using MineSight, which supports coal mines on five continents.

They include: Teck Resources Ltd (Canada)  Grande Cache Coal (Canada)
Walter Energy (Canada)  Minera Aratiri S.A. (Uruguay)
Banpu Public Company Ltd (Thailand)  Italian-Thai Development PC Ltd. (Thailand)
Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Brazil)  Phonesack Group (Laos)
Anglo American (Canada and Australia)  Coalspur Mines Ltd. (Canada)
TransAlta Generation Partnership (Canada)  Centennial Coal (Australia)
Lee Ranch Coal Company (USA)  EGAT (Thailand)