Process Optimization

Blasthole Logging

AI blasthole logging today mostly means AI-driven drilling: Hexagon Drill Assist sets drill parameters automatically from live rig-sensor data as it drills.

Blasting Sequence

Manage blast sequencing and timing through cloud platforms like Orica BlastIQ or Deswik.Blast, which centralize blast data and enforce design rules.

Chemical Analysis

On-stream analysis puts an XRF or XRD slurry analyzer in the concentrate stream, so grade data updates continuously and feeds real-time AI process control.

Crushing

Crusher optimization with closed-loop AI: Imubit uses reinforcement learning to tune setpoints on live plant data, versus model-based ABB Ability.

Grinding

Grinding circuit optimization with AI: closed-loop platforms like ABB Ability Expert Optimizer or Imubit learn your mill and adjust setpoints live.

Long Term Planning

Run long-term mine planning through Maptek Evolution, which evaluates many scheduling scenarios in parallel and improves them using evolutionary search.

Mill Surveys

Turn the periodic mill survey into a continuous one: log circuit data in a plant historian, then apply industrial-AI analytics for real-time mass balance.