METHOD AND SYSTEM OF INTEGRATED MINE PLANNING

• Main Authors: AXFORD, BENJAMIN, STEFFENS, GEOFFREY JOHN, WILLIAMS, PATRICK GERARD
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 15.02.2007
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

A system and method for facilitating integrated mine planning in a mining operation. The system has a data module to store data objects. The system al so has a management module in communication with the data module and the management module is configured with at least one workflow having a series o f interdependent processing steps representative of planning steps for a mine plan. The management module controls the accessibility of one or more users to each of the steps within the at least one workflow. The at least one user is able to obtain one or more data objects from the data store, under the contr ol of the management module, to process the one or more data objects to perform at least one processing step in the at least one workflow using a proprietar y expert software solution.