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Table of Contents Overview – About Mintec, Inc. About MineSight® Plotting and Display Tools Visualization and Presentation Tools MineSight® Integrated Tools Mine Sight® Geology Tools MineSight® Modeling Tools MineSight® Design Tools MineSight® Planning and Scheduling Tools MineSight® Production Tools Support (Headings are linked to the beginning of a section – click on line to go there)

Mintec, Inc. - Developers of mining software solutions for: Exploration Geological Modeling Mine Planning Mine Design Production Scheduling

Vancouver, BC, Canada Calgary, AB, Canada Toronto, ON, Canada

Nanchang, Jiangxi Province Peoples Republic of China

MINTEC, inc. Tucson, Arizona, USA Bangkok, Thailand Lima, Peru

Santiago, Chile

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Johannesburg, South Africa

Minesight Applications West Perth, WA, Australia

Mintec’s worldwide organization is setup to provide quick and reliable answers to your inquiries. We have English, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, and Russianspeaking personnel available to discuss your requests.

Approximate Client Location representing one or more Sites

Mintec has over 300 clients sites worldwide.

Our goal is to provide an easy-to-use tool for you to access, create, edit, and display your data – everything from exploration drillholes to pit designs and reclamation topography. By incorporating a multitude of CAD (computer-aided design) and other functions, we believe we have met this goal and more.

Mintec’s engineering staff has provided project assistance to the mining industry for over 30 years. Our engineers, many of whom are multi-lingual, specialize in geologic modeling, Geostatistics, pit optimization, pit design, ore control, and scheduling. Many have worked with our software for over 15 years. Below are some of the projects on which we have assisted: Alamo Dorado Antamina Bajo Alumbrera Boleo Cuajone

Lanna Lignite Navachab Tenke Toquepala Varvarinskoye

Our engineers use MineSight® on hundreds of open pit and underground projects worldwide. Because our project assistance group relies solely on our software, we take advantage of this opportunity to continually enhance the programs to meet their challenges, thus providing a more powerful and serviceable software for our clients.

The engineering group works closely with the software development team to design and customize software solutions to meet the specific program requirements of our clients.

What is MineSight®? MineSight® is a state-of-the-art, 3-D, comprehensive geologic modeling and mine planning software system.

MineSight® enables operations to build a project database containing 3-D representations of drillhole data, gridded and triangulated surfaces, sectional geologic interpretations, survey information, 3-D block model data viewed sections or grade shells, gridded seam model data, and 3-D geometric objects.

The tools within MineSight® allow the user to manipulate data to assist in modeling or the planning process. Tools include:  CAD editing of 2-D and 3-D data;  Interactive design, planning, and scheduling;  Intersections of solid and surfaces including volume calculation;  Scaled plot outputs;  and others.

MineSight® includes dynamic interactive menus. This function allows the user to pick the look of the menus and determine the order in which the options are listed. By setting options in the order used, training time for new personnel is reduced.

MineSight® offers robust data viewing options. Using the 3-D and 2-D viewing functions, data can be turned, sliced, orbited, rotated, and sectioned. You can adjust the viewpoint, target, or both, to view your data in any orientation, all with the click of a mouse.

MineSight® offers interactive data transfer options. Should you need to transfer your data to or from another software, MineSight® contains an array of options for a smooth transfer.

MineSight® is compatible with Microsoft® Vista, Microsoft® Windows XP, and Microsoft® Windows 2000, operating systems, and requires no special hardware or software.

Plotting and Display Tools

CAD Functions

CAD Menus

Multiple viewers can be opened simultaneously in MineSight® 3-D allowing you to edit data while viewing the same data in multiple orientations.

CAD - Linker Tool

CAD – Polyline Menu Options

CAD – Road Design

CAD – Stockpile Design and Volumes

CAD – Surface Gridding

CAD - Surface Intersect

CAD - Triangulations

CAD – Volume Calculations

Element Scaling

User-defined fill patterns with transparency 40 standard, pre-defined patterns.

Isopach Tool – generate ispoach contours; drape contours to surface or elevation.

Extrude Tool for Dump Design

Solid Deformation Tool

Fence/Drive Diagrams Stretched sections for surface and underground – View data on stretched section – Digitize/edit on stretched section

Fence Planes and Surfaces

Fence Diagram - Plan View

Geology on the Fence Plans

Dump/Leach/Stockpile Modeling Construct grade model of stockpile using MineSight® Grail to ‘glue’ together existing functions. Move material from mine model to stockpile model using truck information.

Stripping Ratio Maps

Depth of Cover Map

Visualization and Presentation Tools

Visualization Functions

Presentation Tools

Open Pit Geology and 3-D Block Model

3-D Visualization

Plotting

Plot to DXF

Plotting/Display

SiroVision Implementation of SiroVision technology  Stereo camera imaging  Alternative to laser/radar scanning  New TIFF file format

Integrated Tools

MineSight® 3-D MineSight®’s 3-D graphical interface which provides a Microsoft® Windows style environment with a large number of easy to use, intuitive finctions for CAD design, data presentation, area and volume calculations, and modeling.

MineSight® Grail A framework for scripting in MineSight® Compass™ and MineSight® 3-D. A flexible and powerful tool for site engineers and users. Opens up MineSight® for customization. A library to access MineSight® data and functions based on Python.

MineSight® Data ASCII Reformat Tool (Dart)

MSDart is a stand alone utility used to reformat any ASCII data file Types      

of manipulation available: Add a constant Multiple Factor Limit Replace Remove Quotes Substitute List

MineSight® Data Security System (DSS)

The Data Security System (DSS) ensures the entire mine’s data set, in large multi-user environments, is managed safely and efficiently. The DSS is an open database connectivity (ODBC) management tool that controls the use of a single common data set, accessed by MineSight® users. Every object has a unique reference identifier and the DSS controls the checking out (borrowing), checking in (submitting), and ownership authority of all data.

Geology Tools

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Data entry

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Data validation

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Reporting

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Plotting and display

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Drillhole design

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Solids spearing/coding

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Compositing

Drillholes and compositing

Drillholes and Compositing

Surface Geology

Surface Mapping

3-D Geology

3-D Geology

Planar Feature Dimming

Sectional Geology

Interpretive Geology

Geostatistics

z* = [Σ(1/dip) * z(xi ) ] Σ(1/ dip)

• Simple Kriging • Ordinary Kriging • Nearest Neighbor Kriging • Lognormal Kriging • Short-cut Using Ordinary Kriging

• Inverse Distance Weighing • Inverse Distance by Trend Plane •Gradient Interpolation

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Uniform Conditioning Conditional Simulation Advanced Geostatistical Tools

Advanced Geostatistics Conditional Simulation 

Sequential Gaussian Simulation

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Sequential Indicator Simulation

Uniform Conditioning Calculates:  Proportion above cutoff  Metal Above cutoff  Grade above cutoff

Block Interpolation

Model Interpolation

Model block with interpolation search ellipse and complex geology

What is MSDA? 

Classical statistical tools such as histograms, scatterplots, and cumulative probability plots.

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Geostatistical tools:  variogram calculation  Variogram modeling

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Traditional variograms and variogram modeling

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3-D variogram modeling

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Custom Reports

Key Features and Benefits 

Access MineSight® data, ODBC sources, text files, with SQL-like filtering capability.

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3-D variogram modeling with “best fit” function.

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Custom reports/charts, almost unlimited flexibility.

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All existing stats/geostat applications have been rewritten and extended as part of MSDA.

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Easy to use queuing and multi-run functionality.

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Modern and familiar Microsoft® Windows GUI.

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Powerful, integrated charting; end-user customizable.

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Modernized reports and printouts (HTML)

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Favorites, history, auditable (data source and application parameters serialized with application file).

MineSight® Data Analyst (MSDA) Statistics and geostatistics analysis package

Application Menu

File Tree

MSDA Manager

File Preview

Variogram 3-D Modeling

Typical MSDA Display

Histogram Chart- Modified Style

Variogram 3-D Model Standard View

3-D Model – Autofit vs Experimental

Variogram 3-D Modeling

Variogram 3-D – Rose vs Autofit

Variogram 3-D Model Showing Error Circles

Copper

Molybdenum

Eqv Copper

Copper

Molybdenum

Eqv Copper

Corr. coeff. r

1.000

0.604

0.867

Best line m

1.000

0.078

1.776

Best line b

0.000

0.010

0.099

Best line error

0.000

0.023

0.232

Corr. coeff. r

0.604

1.000

0.921

Best line m

4.704

1.000

14.702

Best line b

0.308

0.000

0.309

Best line error

0.181

0.000

0.181

Corr. coeff. r

0.867

0.921

1.000

Best line m

0.423

0.058

1.000

Best line b

0.097

-0.010

0.000

Best line error

0.113

0.011

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Reports and Charts

Mining Shape Optimizer

Optimized

Modeling Tools

3-D Block Model

Gridded Seam Model

Constant Cell Height

Variable Cell Height

3-D Block Model

3-D Block Model Multiple Labeling Options

3-D Block Model Multiple Labeling Options

3-D Block Model Multiple Limiting Options

3DBM Query Options

Blastholes

Drillholes

Point Samples

Water Holes Faults

Water Table

RQD Model

Vertical Seam Models

Gridded Seam Model

Gridded Seam Model

GSM Model – Thickness of Cover Map

Grade Shells

Grade Shell

Reblocking

Design Tools

3DBM with Autosliced Planning Cuts

Underground Design

Underground Design

3DBM Underground Design

CAD – Underground Design and Scheduling

Ring Design

Ring Design

Variable Slope Sectors

Pit Design

Ramps & Slots

Ancillary Design Topography

Planning and Scheduling Tools

Underground Planning

Scheduling

MineSight® Economic Planner (MSEP)

MSEP

Pit Optimization: Economic Pit Design

MSEP - Design

Preliminary Production Scheduling with Cutoff Grade Optimization

MSEP

MSEP - Evaluate

MSEP - Pit Optimization Pit Optimization: Economic Pit Design 

Pushback generation maximizing net profit

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Uses 3-D block model and gridded surface file

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Handles multiple processes and materials

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Mining and processing cost options

Gridded surface file items for MSEP

MSEP - Pit Optimization Pit Optimization: Economic Pit Design 

Standard methods:  Lerchs-Grossmann  Floating Cone

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Annual discount rate can be added to pushback design

BenchFactor =

1 D   1 + 100 

IZ −0.5 MB

MB = benches mined per period D = discount rate per period IZ = bench number

MSEP - Pit Optimization Pit Optimization: Economic Pit Design 

MSEP can calculate or read design variable (Net $/ Block)

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Results stored directly in MineSight® gridded surface file and 3-D model

Let MSEP calculate the design variable

Gridded surface model view displaying PIT01 item

MSEP - Pit Optimization Pit Optimization: Economic Pit Design 

MSEP generates a single pit or series of pits

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Use of new method for generating series of pits based upon:  Economics  Metal recovery & price  Geometry constraints  Pushback width  Pit slopes Constant pit slope Slopes by azimuth Complex slopes  Production requirements  Tonnage

MSEP - Pit Optimization 

Additional options are:  Resource calculation: reporting tonnages by material destination  Sequencing for multiple pit bottom deposits

Pit reserves summary

MSEP - Pit Optimization Pit optimization results 

Resulting shells for the pushbacks are stored directly in the GSF file

Displaying results using model views

MSEP – Preliminary Production Scheduling Preliminary production scheduling 

New product - new concept  Preliminary production scheduling is done using NPV analysis and cutoff grade optimization methods  Schedule is a simplified long-range production schedule  Does not replace MSSP scheduler  Main purpose is to quickly generate comparative life-ofmine schedules for different production scenarios

MSEP – Preliminary Production Scheduling Scheduling calculation results  Displaying and analyzing results with MSEP charting tool  User friendly interface

Tons to mill and tons to waste

MSEP – Preliminary Production Scheduling Scheduling calculation results 

Displaying and analyzing results with MSEP charting tool  Tons, grades, cash flow, NVP graphs can be generated

Mill mined tons

Mined, processed, stockpile tons

Planning Sections

Planning Sections

3-D Plans

MineSight® Strategic Planner (MSSP)

Long-range Scheduling

Long-range Scheduling

Long-range Scheduling

3-D End-of-Period Shells

Sliced 3-D End-of-Period Shells

End-of-Period Maps

MSSP Set-up

MSSP Long-range scheduling tool with:  Optimization on NPV  Equipment reporting 

New features:  Larger internal limits (classes, waste)  Stockpile reclaim  New precedence rules  Waste dump subregions  New cost classes  Dialog consistency

MineSight® Interactive Planner(MSIP)

MSIP Equipment Reporting 

Report truck hours/count

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Report shovel hours/count

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Automatic cut attribution

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Reserves from drillholes/blastholes

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Autoslicer inside MSIP

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Elevation range for GSM and 3DBM

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Topo% / material % / clipping options

Equipment Reporting Results Stored in AGDM

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Short-term Scheduling

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3-D Mining Shapes

3-D Mining Shapes

Cut Generation

MineSight® Activity Planner (MSAP)

Planning Board - Introduction

• The Planning Board is a graphical representation of resource usage. • We use the Planning Board to schedule activities for resources.

Planning Board - Shovels

Constraints View The Constraints view lets planners assign precedence rules, e.g. • Drill before blast before mine • Mine bench 2600 before bench 2500

Displaying Resource Attributes • Attribute values can be aggregated for all activities and displayed in chart form underneath the Planning Board as a function of time, e.g. • Weighted average copper grade from all stopes being mined • Total operating cost of all active trucks

Activity Summary Report

Production Tools

CAD – Survey Functions

MineSight® Operations

MineSight® Operations MineSight® Operations is the integration of all data and processes associated with open pit ore control and is used to automate data collection, short-range model building, and daily ore control planning at the site. Mintec is building databases and data models in the areas of drillhole and blasthole data, ore control, reserves, and mine planning as integral components of MineSight® Operations.

Features of MineSight® Operations

• 3-D Visualization and CAD Functions • Simplified survey and blast design • Storage of blastholes, cuts, and reserves in ODBC database • Unlimited blasthole storage capacity • Direct, real-time loading of assays data from LIMS • Unattended modeling • Interactive 3-D cut design and editing • Ability to quickly change routing and reporting algorithms • Automated production data handling – links to dispatch • Flexible and detailed interactive plotting functions

Relational Database Management System

Blasthole storage Easy merging and editing functions Efficient and speedy retrieval from large databases Automatic loading of data

MineSight® Auto building of short-range models Planning Calculation Custom reporting Display

Benefits of MineSight® Operations Information sharing between departments 

Drill penetration data shared with drill and blast

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Mined progress from  CAES to MineSight® Operations  Shovel GPS to MineSight® Operations (automatic)

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OC routing data transfer to  CAES (routing polygons)  Modular dispatch  Minestar  Shovel GPS (routing polygons)

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OC routing information shared with stockpile management

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Period (daily) mined production available to mill (through PI)

Benefits of MineSight® Operations Software standardization 

All processes now done in MineSight®

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AutoCad removed from the process

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All plotting done through MineSight®

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Blast pattern design in MineSight®

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Elimination of using hand entry for dispatch routing data

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Reserve reporting routines all done through MineSight® Grail

Improved data handling 

Multiple samples down the blastholes

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Different block model size vs. bench height

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Elimination of previous MineSight® blasthole data limits

MineSight® Operations MineSight® Operations is the centerpiece of our strategy for establishing MineSight® at operating mines. MineSight® Operations is an ongoing process, since it will continue to evolve at operating mines as new sources of information must be linked to it. Mintec will continue to expand MineSight® Operations through application at existing sites.

“We needed a tool to integrate all of our daily functionality. It had to be simple, robust, and predictable. We chose MineSight® Operations.” Kim Kirkland, AMEC USA

Blasthole Preparation

Blastholes

Blasthole Modeling

Blasthole Models

Blast Pattern Design

3-D Blast Pattern Layout

3-D Blast Pattern Layout

Current and Historical Blasthole Data

Mining Shape Layout

3-D Mining Shape Layout

Plotting

Microsoft Access

Microsoft Excel

Data Sources (ODBC)

Customizable to Site Specifications

MineSight® Operations Locations Abosso Goldfields Limited, Abosso (Damang), Accra, Ghana Asarco Incorporated, Ray Mines, Hayden, Arizona Barrick Gold Corporation, Alto Chicama, Lima, Peru Barrick Goldstrike Mines, Inc., Elko, Nevada BHP Billiton, Mt. Keith Operations, Western Australia Black Swan Nickel PTY LTD, Black Swan Mine, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia Carpentaria Gold PTY LTD, Ravenswood Gold Mine, Queensland, Australia CÍA. Contractual Minera Candelaria, Copiapo, Chile CÍA. Minera Falconbridge Lomas Bayas, Lomas Bayas Mine, Antofagasta, Chile CÍA. Minera Antamina S.A., Antamina Mine, Ancash, Peru Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mining Company, Cripple Creek Mine, Cripple Creek, Colorado Diavik Diamond Mines, Inc., Lac de Gras Mine, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada Fairbanks Gold Mining, Inc., Fort Knox Project, Fairbanks, Alaska Gammon Lake Resources, Ltd., Ocampo Project, Chihuahua, Mexico Gibraltar Mines LTD., Gibraltar Mine, McLeese Lake, British Columbia, Canada Imperial Metals Corporation, Mount Polley, Likely, British Columbia, Canada Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation, Bingham Canyon Mine, Bingham Canyon, Utah LIHIR Gold LTD., Lihir Gold Mine, Papau New Guinea Mexicana de Cananea, S.A. DE C.V., Cananea, Sonora, Mexico Mexicana de Cobre, S.A. DE C.V., Mina La Caridad, Nacozari de Garcia, Sonora, Mexico

MineSight® Operations Locations Minera Alumbrera Limited, Bajo de la Alumbrera Mine, Catamarca, Argentina Minera Argentina Gold S.A., Veladero, San Juan, Argentina Minera Barrick Misquichilca S.A., Mina Pierina, Huaraz, Peru Minera Escondida Limitada, Escondida Mine, Antofagasta, Chile Morila Mine, Mali, West Africa NovaGold Alaska Inc., Rock Creek Mine, Nome, Alaska Oceana Gold (New Zealand) Limited, Macraes Gold Mine, Macraes Flat, New Zealand Oceana Gold (New Zealand) Limited, Reefton, Reefton, New Zealand OK Tedi Mining Limited, Ok Tedi Gold Mine, Papua New Guinea Perserverance PTY LTD, Fosterville Gold Project, Victoria, Australia Phelps Dodge Bagdad, Inc., Bagdad, Arizona Phelps Dodge Mining Company, Chino Mines Company, Hurley, New Mexico Phelps Dodge Morenci, Inc., Morenci, Arizona Phelps Dodge Safford Inc., Phelps Dodge Safford Mine, Safford, Arizona Phelps Dodge Sierrita, Inc., Green Valley, Arizona PT Freeport Nusa Tenggara, Grasberg Mine, Indonesia PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara, Batu Hijau Mine, Indonesia PT Freeport Nusa Tenggara, Tembaggapura, Indonesia Robinson Nevada Mining Company, Robinson Operations, Ruth, Nevada Rossing Uranium Limited, Rossing Uranium Mine, Swakopmund, Namibia Minera San Cristobal, San Cristobal Mine, La Paz, Bolivia

MineSight® Operations Locations Sociedad Contractual Minera El Abra, Calama, Chile Sociedad Minera Cerro Verde S.A.A., Cerro Verde, Arequipa, Peru Southern Peru Copper Corporation, Sucursal Cuajone, Tacna, Peru Southern Peru Copper Corporation, Sucursal Toquepala, Tacna, Peru Unimin Corporation, Spruce Pine, North Carolina Waihi Gold Mining Company, Waihi Gold Mine, New Zealand Xstrata Copper Australia, Black Star Mine, Western Australia Xstrata Copper Australia, George Fisher Mine, Queensland, Western Australia Xstrata Copper Australia, Mount Isa Mine, Queensland, Western Australia

3-D Visualization

Additional implementation options for MineSight® Operations:  LIMS interface  Bar-code printer interface  Custom reports  Explosive information systems  High precision drill information systems  Dispatching information systems  Model interpolation review  Site-specific operations procedure manual

Support Services

With the purchase of a maintenance agreement, Mintec stands beside you in solving any problem. Our Support team consists of Geologists and Engineers with extensive experience solving complex mining issues. In many instances, they are the training course instructors. The courses are designed to help you improve your productivity using practical examples and exercises. We don’t just sell software, we support it!

MineSight® Software Support and Training

MineSight® Training

MineSight® For Geologists MineSight® Overview (2 days) Drillholes, Models, Advanced CAD functions (3+ days) Geostatistics (5 days)

MineSight® Training MineSight® For Engineers (Surface) MineSight® Overview (2 days) Basic - Pit Optimization, Pit Design, and Scheduling (+3 days) MineSight® Short-term Planning (+2 days) Advanced - Pit Optimization, Pit Design, and Scheduling (5 days) MineSight® Strategic Planner (3 days) MineSight® For Engineers (Underground) Development, Survey, Blast Design, and Scheduling (3 days)

MineSight® Training

MineSight® Technical MineSight® Overview (2 days) MineSight® Operations – Survey, Blastholes, MineSight® Interactive Planner (3+ days) Survey, Advanced CAD functions (2+ days) Presentation Tools (3 days) MineSight® Update (2 days)

Maintenance Agreement

Success with any complex software package is predicated on support and continuous updates to the software. Both are provided with an annual maintenance agreement from Mintec. The value provided is well worth the investment. The maintenance agreement entitles the client to:

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Technical Support Software/Documentation Updates Annual Seminar Monthly Newsletter

Technical Support Supporting our clients is our highest priority. Mintec provides:  Technical support 24-hours a day, seven days-a-week by telephone, E-mail, fax, and our web site.  Toll-free hotline numbers for clients in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Chile, and South Africa.  Multi-lingual support. Mintec’s policy is to provide an expedient initial response, typically within the hour.

Software/Documentation Updates Continuous updates to MineSight® software programs and documentation, including new developments to MineSight® 3-D software. (Note: Some new developments may require a fee for installation, individual modifications, training, or the addition of third party software). Updates to programs are available to those clients with an active maintenance agreement and are accessible through our web site www.mintec.com (using a password/access code), or by request on CD.

Annual Seminar Mintec has hosted a seminar for clients since 1983 – a successful means of support now being emulated by others. This annual event is available to all clients as part of their maintenance agreement. Aside from the technical presentations and workshops, the seminar also offers our clients the opportunity to meet the entire Mintec staff and other MineSight® clients through educational and social events.

Monthly Newsletter Mintec publishes a monthly, newsletter in English and Spanish to inform clients of company activities, trade show participation, training events and special classes, the latest software developments and enhancements to MineSight® software, and technical support tips. The newsletter also provides up-to-date information on whom to contact when assistance is needed.

Mintec, Inc. is committed to a long-term relationship with all our clients. We are continually improving and enhancing MineSight® so that all our clients are successful now, and into the future. To inquire about the product(s) you have seen in this demo (or any that you have not seen), or to order our software, contact our head office in Tucson, Arizona.

Mintec, Inc. 3544 E. Ft. Lowell Rd. Tucson, Arizona 85716 Tel: (520) 795-3891 Fax: (520) 325-2568 E-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.mintec.com