THE LEADING MINE SCHEDULING SOLUTION

THE LEADING MINE SCHEDULING SOLUTION

XPAC XPAC: Scheduling software that is truly life of mine. XPAC is a business focused mine scheduling application, designed specifically for reserve modelling, production forecasting and scenario analysis. XPAC can help you accelerate the generation of scheduling options, compare multiple scenarios, identify production bottlenecks, and improve forecasting accuracy. XPAC is the most sophisticated mine scheduling software available, providing unmatched levels of resolution and sequencing detail without sacrificing performance. XPAC gives you faith that the schedules you develop today will have practical application in the real world and will maximise value, now and into the future. XPAC: The engineer s choice. Mining engineers have been using RungePincockMinarco s XPAC since 1980 to plan their production. Follow their lead and use XPAC to identify where to dig, where to dump waste material and what equipment you will need to meet production targets. Most importantly, you can use XPAC to deliver knowledge and confidence, where before, there were only limited choices. XPAC makes it easy to view mine data, from individual reserve blocks through to the whole mine and produces mine schedules that take into account the unique character and attributes of almost any mining operation. XPAC delivers economic efficiencies to your bottom line and is the solution for any mining operation seeking operational excellence and value. XPAC Features Integrate with all major geological modelling packages. Implement for any mining operation. Investigate, calculate and report using highly customisable tools. Rely on the schedules and reports produced from rigorously validated input data. Support any scheduling horizon at any granularity with a flexible calendar. Generate and assess multiple scenarios. Work with a logical flow of data from raw geology to mining reserves. Visualise your data with powerful 3D animation and integrated analytical functions.

After thirty years, XPAC is still the trusted choice to deliver accurate results with practical application. XPAC Benefits Schedule your mine with greater predictability and practicality. Save time and increase productivity of planning staff. Adopt standardised planning processes to deliver consistent corporate results. Generate schedules that will have credibility at all levels from the board room to the pit. Increase the flexibility of your forecasting and planning. Maximise the value of your mine, now and into the future. Solve the complex mining problems you encounter every day! Data Management XPAC s completely customisable reserves database suits all mining methods and commodities. You choose the resolution of your database and model any sized mine. You choose the attributes you want to store about each mining block. You choose the hierarchy to summarise and work with data at the levels you want. The user-defined calendar database accommodates all scheduling horizons: from strategic long-term to operational short-term. You choose the length of the schedule and duration of the periods. You choose the time-based attributes you want to store about targets, products, equipment, and any other data that varies from period to period. Work your mine, your way.

Results Being able to create a visual representation of your mine schedule gives you incredible insight and provides a powerful way to communicate your plan to others. XPAC uses advanced 3-D graphics rendering, combined with detailed spatial data, to accurately represent the complex shapes of your mine. Database plots give you an accurate representation of the deposit at any point in the schedule. Colour code by quality, quantity or any other attribute. Period progress and mine status plots show you the progression of your schedule over time. Define plot outputs based on time periods or the mine status at key points. Animations let you see how the mine develops over time. Export Stage Plans as triangulated and gridded surfaces at any point in the animation. XPAC reporting provides simple yet powerful solutions for analysing your data. XPAC gives you the flexibility to access a wide variety of reports. Investigate your model in minute granularity with customisable reporting tools. Generate tables, graphs and detailed results for analysis. Link with enterprise-level reporting to deliver corporate knowledge solutions. Access and interrogate your data at any level with the full flexibility of pivot tables. Manage issues like weight average fields, resources and activities automatically. Spend your time analysing schedules, not generating reports. Specialised modules expand the power of XPAC XPAC Underground Design Reserve analysis, mine design and scheduling for underground stratigraphic deposits. The XPAC Underground module will give you the power and flexibility to handle the unique planning and scheduling challenges presented by underground coal and potash mining and take advantage of the opportunities these mines provide. Built on decades of practical operational and engineering experience. Dedicated CAD facility to design and fine-tune your mine layout. Integrated with geology to automatically generate reserves for the design. Changes to the design drive automatic changes to the schedule. Mining dependencies and constraints enhanced for underground realities. Margin ranking and range analysis sets the standard for sequence and NPV optimisation. The designs you create automatically generate the dependencies needed to create your schedule, define your mining rules and determine the mining sequence.

XPAC Autoscheduler The mining industry s tool of choice for the scheduling challenges mine engineers face every day. The Autoscheduler adopts a rules-based approach to scheduling that eliminates the need to start each new scenario from the beginning. Easily accommodate major changes to mine design and geological data without significant disruption. Changes at one point will flow through your model according to the rules you set. Autoscheduler guides you through a three-step process that will help you determine the best schedule for your operation and improve your mine economics. Identify the rules or constraints the mining operation must obey, such as minimum mining width, access requirements and resource constraints. Assign targets and objectives for each product, from product and impurity grades to haul distance and financial imperatives. This XPAC module lets you: Generate the schedule that best meets the scenarios objectives, while honouring all the rules and constraints. Rapidly assess an infinite number of alternative scheduling scenarios simply modify the mining rules and objectives, then generate an updated schedule. Identify the best schedule, rather than just the first valid schedule generated. Perform dynamic cut-off grade assessment that automatically varies the cut-off grade over time and Capture planning and operational knowledge and transfer it between staff to ensure a consistent approach. optimises the delivery of materials for processing. Spend less time creating schedules and more time evaluating them. XPAC Advanced Destination Scheduler Stop wasting time with manual dump scheduling! Schedule your dumps automatically with XPAC s Advanced Destination Scheduler. Waste mining is a significant cost for any mining operation. Without a destination schedule, you only have half the picture. The XPAC Advanced Destination Scheduler provides a complete scheduling system for the efficient placement of excavated material. Extend the XPAC rules-based scheduler to include the automated scheduling of dumps. Consider both when and where you will move mined minerals. Perform rigorous haul network analysis for every scheduled source block, comparing all possible destinations to identify the most practical and economical solutions. Incorporate back-dumping opportunities that account for availability and priority. Manage contaminating and non-contaminating materials by controlling where each material is dumped. Determine the final landform to plan rehabilitation and environmental activities. The Advanced Destination Scheduler delivers surety of dumping solutions and will help you minimise or flatten the haulage fleet requirements for any schedule.

About XPAC Solutions RungePincockMinarco developed XPAC Solutions to open traditionally complicated mine planning software to a larger and wider audience of mine planners without compromising on power and flexibility. Each XPAC Solution focuses on a specific business-critical mine planning function. Our XPAC Solutions guide users through best practice mine planning by following in-built intelligence developed over four decades of expertise and are purpose built to suit specific commodity and mining method combinations. XPAC Solutions provide users with a smaller learning curve allowing for rapid upskilling of planning personnel while continuing to deliver dependable, consistent mine plans. They reduce your project s reliance on niche technical skills, reduce the risks of human capital shortfall and free up your senior planners from learning software. Software Support RungePincockMinarco s international network gives our customers multiple support options across multiple time zones. Our skilled professionals provide both technical software support and extended implementation support, covering any model or customization. Access RungePincockMinarco s comprehensive support service by telephone or email, or get online and talk with our experts on the RPM Forums. No matter where you are globally, no matter how remote, we can help. Further Information For further information or a product demonstration, please email sales@rpmglobal.com or visit www.rpmglobal.com. About RungePincockMinarco RungePincockMinarco is the world s largest independent group of mining technical experts, with history stretching back to 1968. We have local expertise in all mining regions and are experienced across all commodities and mining methods. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange on 27 May 2008 (ASX: RUL), RungePincockMinarco is a global leader in the provision of advisory consulting, technology and professional development solutions to the mining industry. We have global expertise achieved through our work in over 118 countries and our approach to the business of mining is strongly grounded in economic principles. We operate offices in 18 locations across 12 countries on five continents. Visit rpmglobal.com to contact an office near you.