Blend your way to a higher NPV with Whittle and the GEOVIA Blend optimizer.

Coal, iron ore and industrial minerals miners often have to blend ore to meet product specifications. Metals miners need to blend ore before feeding it into the extraction process.

The GEOVIA Blend Optimizer not only allows such blending to take place, it actually optimizes the blend considering the schedule and existing stockpiles to ensure these are optimized at the same time.

All this is driven by the overall objective of maximizing the Net Present Value (NPV) of the whole operation.

BENEFITS
– Improve NPV through blend optimization
– Optimize Blending on either a Whittle mining sequence or imported a imported sequence
– Determine optimal product specification for Bulk blends to achieve maximum NPV
– Determine optimal plant feed criteria for extractive blends to achieve maximum NPV

HIGHLIGHTS
– Extends GEOVIA Pushback Optimizer;
– Blend optimization based on Whittle schedules or imported schedule
– Bulk blend scenario analysis considering multiple products with different specifications, prices, blending costs and blending limits
– Handle multiple coal specifications and constraints such as minimum BTU, max ash and sulphur
– Extractive blend approach factoring in blending costs and constraints, such as process recovery, prices and selling costs while limits are applied to the extractive process
– Handle multiple stockpiles, different cut-offs, time dependant recoveries, initial size and grade while utilizing Whittles scheduling engine to determine the optimal blend strategy

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