No stranger to being in the spotlight, Ernesto Vivas presented a well-received paper at SME.
A who’s who of the mining industry’s major players was in attendance for two MineSight papers presented at SME in Salt Lake City late last month. “Leadership in Uncertain Times” was the theme of the 2014 SME Annual Meeting and Exhibit. Mintec’s contributions from the podium can only have heartened mine companies seeking greater productivity.
“A one-two punch” is how senior MineSight specialist, Ernesto Vivas, described the case studies delivered to an audience of industry peers. Vivas authored and presented “An Integrated Mine Plan – Connecting Long, Medium and Short Term Planning Strategies at Goldcorp Peñasquito”. The paper was two years in the making and demonstrated a case study of how mine planning can be integrated with MineSight Schedule Optimizer.
At SME in Salt Lake City, Mintec’s Frank Olivieri (left) fields questions from International Mining’s John Chadwick (right) and Paul Moore.
“This has been a long-time gap in the industry, which Mintec is helping to close,” said Ernesto. “A lot of people are interested in it.”
Next up was principal MineSight specialist, Jim Lonergan, who together with MineSight specialist Abinash Moharana and Rio Tinto staff presented “Managing the Medium Term Mine Scheduling Challenges at Bingham Canyon Mine After the Slide”. Read it here!
“This was a fantastic presentation on how Mintec collaborated with the mine to convert Bingham Canyon’s in-house spreadsheet-based medium term mine scheduling process to the MineSight Schedule Optimizer program,” said Ernesto. “Combined, the presentations gave the audience a one-two punch. With case studies at two of the biggest and most complex poly-metallic open pit mines in Northern and Central America, we demonstrated MineSight and MineSight Schedule Optimizer as the Number One tool for mine planning.”
While SME attendance was modest compared to previous years, Ernesto and the rest of the Mintec crew staffing Booth 1407 are now busy following up a multitude of leads. Ernesto’s paper will shortly appear here.
MineSight specialists Ryan Bloomfield, Abinash Moharana and Ernesto Vivas at SME.
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