Sandvik acquires MCB, strengthening Deswik’s leading position in Latin American market.

Polymathian joins Deswik following Sandvik’s previously announced acquisition to create a unique digital portfolio centered on digitalizing our customers’ processes.

Polymathian has signed an agreement to be acquired by Sandvik and will join Deswik to form part of Sandvik’s Mining and Rock Solutions Business Unit. The joining of Deswik and Polymathian brings together two highly complementary businesses focused on the digitalization and automation of the mining industry.

Deswik will continue to support India in its drive for efficient and sustainable mining operations with a local presence in Gurugram, Haryana.

The question of, ‘What is the ultimate pit limit?’ is one mine planners often ask themselves to ensure a successful project. This article looks at the current methods to solving the pit optimization problem and discusses Direct Block Scheduling as a newer approach that could be the industry’s next step change.

In underground projects with complex operations and mining activities, a traditional Cut-off-Grade can be difficult to determine. Using Pseudoflow in Deswik.Sched, an algorithm similar to the Lerchs-Grossmann model used in Open Pit optimization, ORELOGY helped an active mine with their economic analysis and scheduling phases of an underground plan to maximize project value.

Sandvik has completed the previously announced acquisition of the Australian-based Deswik. As the leading and fastest growing major provider of mine planning software, Deswik will be part of a newly formed division Digital Mining Technologies within business area Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions.

Deswik has partnered with international leading hardware provider RIEGL to deliver a holistic solution for mine surveyors.

We are thrilled to announce that Deswik has signed an agreement to be acquired by Sandvik, the high-tech and global engineering group headquartered in Sweden.

The reach of Deswik’s strategic mine planning and design solutions is set to extend deep underground with the acquisition of a suite of apps that will enable operators to access critical, task specific data on a tablet or mobile device while offline, working in underground operations.

Many mines today are struggling with complex processes to align long-term schedule objectives with medium-term and operational schedules. Agnico Eagle in partnership with Deswik have been implementing an approach to solve these problems at their Kittila mine in Finland.

Deswik has entered a partnership with Australian environmental consultancy RGS Environmental that will allow both companies to deliver comprehensive life of mine planning solutions to their clients.

Deswik.MDM has been in use at the OZ Minerals Prominent Hill site since March 2019, providing critical data management, transparency, and governance for the large volumes of technical data required to keep Prominent Hill operational and productive.

Deswik has partnered with Alicanto Labs, associated with Universidad Adolfo Ibañez (UAI) in Chile, to release Deswik.GO, a comprehensive strategic design and scheduling tool for open-pit mines. Deswik.GO allows strategic mine planners to rapidly optimize the mine shape, phases and sequence for both greenfield sites and existing operations.

A new module in the Deswik.GeoTools suite that allows geologists to apply an automated, optimized process to planning their infill drilling programs, for both Open Pit and Underground operations. By quickly running multiple scenarios, geologists have more time to analyze the outputs and select the highest value drilling plan.

Deswik.MDM makes it possible for technical services professionals to collaborate efficiently and effectively with off-site colleagues whilst maintaining data and approvals integrity.

Deswik has identified communications and software tools that allow consultants to recreate the interactive, collaborative feel of a face-to-face session, and lines of communication are tested in advance, to ensure sessions run smoothly on the day.

The Deswik.Mapping app has been in use at Vale’s Ontario sites since March 2019. With their technical staff now working from one consistent platform, the use of the app has introduced consistency and rigour to their geological mapping processes.

A new set of tools for geological mapping and sampling, Deswik.GeoTools integrates seamlessly with the Deswik Suite and is designed to improve efficiency by eliminating the double handling of data.

Deswik has stepped up its overseas expansion push by taking a minority stake in its longstanding Brazilian reseller partner MCB Services and Minerals.

For the past five years, Lewis Meyer has taught Deswik software at the Camborne School of Mines at the University of Exeter. As Senior Lecturer in Mining Engineering, 257 students have graduated from Lewis’s Deswik course which consistently receives rave reviews from students.

This article, recently published in Global Mining Review, describes the modeling techniques tried and tested at an Australian mine. The mine needed a solution to produce a 3D visual landform which, while reducing costs, could also achieve desired rehabilitation objectives.

It can be tough being a newcomer in an established industry but, after ten years in business, we have proved our staying power.

Deswik is pleased to support the RCL Accelerator program which provides funding, mentoring and support to start-ups in Brisbane, Australia.

Our joint work with University Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile was recently recognized through the awarding of the Chilean National Prize of Technologic Transfer.

Deswik is pleased to take part in the Austmine Women in STEM: METS Career Pathway Program, aiming to support and promote women in STEM while improving gender diversity in the METS sector.

We’re pleased to announce that Wayne Romer has been selected as a national finalist in the 2016 EY Entrepreneur of The Year awards.

In a compelling article recently published in World Coal, Neil Tyson details ways to improve dragline engineering and in turn improve planning cycle time and mitigate complex risks.

Deswik has been announced as an ABA100 Winner for Product Innovation and Product Excellence in the Australian Business Awards 2015.

We are pleased to announce our expansion into the civil tunnelling market with our new strategic partner Skarpa Pty Ltd.

The UQEM plays an irreplaceable role in the Australian mining industry by bridging the gap between theory and practice at UQ. It is currently under review for closure.

Deswik was awarded the Dermot McManus Award for Leadership and Innovation at the Premier of Queensland’s Export Awards on Thursday 16th October.

Deswik are pleased to announce the provision of Deswik Software for use by Mining Engineering students at UQ.

Deswik partners with RWE to launch the first generation of mine planning tools for CMM applications.

SOT+ case study kicks off at Vale – advancing mine plan optimization.