※Product Overview※

DISCOVER GEOVIA

Model and Simulate our Planet

GEOVIA | Virtual Planet

GEOVIA provides 3DEXPERIENCE® Universes to Model and Simulate our Planet from the vast expanse of the geosphere to the smallest details of urban settlements.

GEOVIA supports the sustainable capture, use and re-use of natural resources across the planet. From mining to urbanization, GEOVIA delivers innovations to improve life on earth.

DISCIPLINES

CITIES

PROVIDES A VIRTUAL 3D ENVIRONMENT TO INTERACTIVELY EXPLORE THE VIRTUAL TWIN OF THE CITY

An intelligent digital model based on geometric and topographical, demographic, mobility and other elements addresses the complexity of the cities, enabling the stakeholders to work in a systemic approach to collaborate around the common referential that allows them to simulate the evolutions of the city.

The stakeholders are able simulate, plan and manage the city in a transversal and collaborative way to remotely share data and better observe urban phenomena.

KEY BENEFITS
 • Easily build and maintain a virtual twin of the city
 • Navigate in a city immersive environment
 • Facilitate data sharing and collaboration to break the organizational silos
 • Analyze georeferenced information through innovative data visualizations
 • Facilitate city orchestration and planning through a collaborative environment

EARTH DESIGN & ENGINEERING

MAXIMIZE RESOURCE POTENTIAL WITH STRATEGIC PLANNING AND DESIGN

Before investing in a new mine, or when re-evaluating mine plans in an active operation, you need to be sure the deposit, design and schedule can deliver the profits required to justify the required capital investment. With GEOVIA, you have the capabilities to maximize profitability and gain greater confidence in the decisions you make.

With GEOVIA, you can analyze the economic viability of a mineral deposit, and then align designs and schedules to company goals.

You also have the ability to optimize return on investment (ROI) by exploring different design options. Risks can be reduced by considering different mine design and operating scenarios by examining the sensitivities to changes in commodity prices, demand, and operating costs.

Once you have your strategic mine plan, you can use it to guide the development of a practical-to-mine production schedule which will also deliver the best possible ROI.

KEY BENEFITS
 • Determine strategies for improved cash flow and earlier capital payback.
 • Reduce risk for large capital projects by evaluating multiple scenarios.
 • Complete integration from Pre-Feasibility to Production Planning.
 • Detect Constraints and Sensitivities under changing conditions.
 • Develop robust mine plans with higher NPV in less time.
 • Optimize all aspects from the Pit to the Plant.

EARTH MODELING

DISCOVER AND MODEL THE SURFACE AND SUB-SURFACE GEOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT

GEOVIA provides you with the geology modeling capabilities needed to quantify and then plan the extraction of mineral deposits. Our applications integrate: ore body or seam modeling; geostatistical analysis; resource modeling, estimation and Block Model generation; survey; and other critical functions.

With GEOVIA, mine site productivity can be increased through the automation of workflows for processes such as grade control, eliminating repetitive tasks, helps to reduce errors, and is underpinned by visual validation of designs.

Using GEOVIA, data can be centralized and secured, making it accessible whenever it is required. In addition to enabling effective collaboration, you benefit from robust audit trails, giving you increased confidence in creating reports for JORC, Valmin, SAMREC, and NI 43-101 and other requirements.

KEY BENEFITS
 • Tools that help you achieve better ore body or seam modeling accuracy.
 • Increased confidence in Resource estimation and Reserves calculations.
 • Improved mine site and user productivity.
 • Common interface promotes faster user adoption.

EARTH RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

HARNESS THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT THROUGH PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT AND CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION

GEOVIA Resources Management provides solutions to manage and optimize the planning and operations of an urban or natural resource, from the smallest details of urban environments to the vast expanse of a remote mine site.

Resources Management provide solutions to bridge the planning, scheduling and operations functions, enabling cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement: a Plan, Do, Check, Act framework underpinned by centralized data and a collaborative platform.

KEY BENEFITS
 • Leverage the tools to build, manage, share and explore the virtual twin of an urban environment, for improved planning, communications and decision making.
 • Produce Tactical Plans in Mining that are compliant with Strategic Objectives through an integrated approach, from Design to Scheduling and onwards through Production.

CUSTOMER STORIES

Regis Resources

The Challenge
Regis Resources, a publicly listed gold production and exploration company in Australia, was looking for a Geology solution to perform their resource estimations, enabling accuracy and greater confidence in their exploration data.

Dassault Systèmes Response
GEOVIA solutions span Regis Resources’ entire mining value chain, in particular the implementation of GEOVIA Surpac and upgrading the client to the latest version with improved Geostatistical tools. GEOVIA also provided customized and classroom training to Resource Geologists at Regis.

Benefits
Regis Resources’ three mining operations in Laverton, Western Australia, and the Perth head office, are now equipped with powerful Geostatistics tools to better perform resource estimations. Improved charting and data processing means their workflow is more streamlined and faster, in particular Surpac’s declustering feature. Regis Resources’ development costs are reduced significantly, saving them time and money.

Agnico Eagle

The Challenge
Agnico Eagle wanted to create and integrate mine design and production schedules with geological modeling to increase in-house knowledge and ensure profitability does not falter at their Meadowbank mine. Read more.

Dassault Systèmes Response
Implemented GEOVIA GEMS™ SQL, GEOVIA MineSched™ and GEOVIA Whittle™ with onsite GEOVIA Services training and assistance for life of mine estimation, life of mine production scenarios, pit optimization, pit designs and ore control.

Benefits
Agnico Eagle's Meadowbank mine now has a strong mine plan and streamlined operating process that decreased hauling and construction costs. Their efficient dump design saved $1.4 million. A smoother process for resource updating – rapid analysis - reduced evaluation time from weeks to days. Ore control software and services improved accuracy and increased high grade production output by 70,000 ounces.

Cokal

The Challenge
 Looking to develop assets in Indonesia, Cokal needed a tool for their exploration phase that would identify the assets and enable them to proceed through to production. Read more.

Dassault Systèmes Response
 GEOVIA Minex™ is a single integrated solution that enables Cokal geologists and engineers to plan from geology exploration all the way through to pit design and scheduling.

Benefits
With Minex, Cokal has gained confidence in the accuracy of their geological model by creating a drillhole database that enables them to interpret geology, identify targets and determine drilling plans.

Palabora Copper

The Challenge
 Looking to develop copper resource output, Palabora needed to manage draw control and increase resource development and exploration. Read more.

Dassault Systèmes Response
GEOVIA PCBC™ improves Palabora's profits through better block cave mine plans, schedules and production management. GEOVIA GEMS™ SQL provides Palabora with collaborative geology and mine planning capabilities that support cross-functional teams involved in exploration, modeling, mine design, long-term planning, and production scheduling.

Benefits
Palabora can evaluate multiple different scenarios and conduct realist sensitivity analyses. Smooth integration between reconciliation and forecasting data. Sound cave management increases profitability and promotes a safer mining environment. Annual time savings is equivalent to one man year.
 
AngloGold Ashanti

The Challenge
AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. needed to produce more reliable and transparent long-term schedules to improve productivity and planning at four open pit gold operations in Africa.

Dassault Systèmes Response
GEOVIA MineSched™ enables engineers at AngloGold Ashanti’s Mine Planning Hub to create and run multiple scenarios for mining schedules and budgets. Option analysis improves the decision-making process on profitable mine plans.

Benefits
With MineSched, AngloGold Ashanti can create multiple sophisticated mining operation scenarios in hours to improve the value of long-term operations without customization, scripts or macros. MineSched also offers better auditability and transparency of the mine scheduling process because of its unique graphical user interface for visualization during sequencing of scheduling activities.

Marco Alfaro

The Challenge
Andres Beluzan, a Mining Civil Engineer and Executive Director of Marco Alfaro Consultores, has been using Surpac throughout the past decade for his work in geological resource estimation.

Dassault Systèmes Response
A recent upgrade to Surpac has made the organization impressed with the efficiency of achieving estimation results at processing speeds nearly 17 times faster.

Benefits
When completing resource estimation for an iron-ore body in northern Chile in which 549,994 blocks were estimated using ordinary kriging, the entire processing time with Surpac 6.7 took only 1 minute and 30 seconds. Previously, the same process took 25 minutes and 26 seconds.