Mincom Assay Management
The enterprise value of a mining organization primarily consists of ore resources and reserves, ore and product in stockpiles, material in process and final product. All of these components require reliable quality or grade information to determine a value.
Mincom Assay Management facilitates best practice business processes for sample tracking, analytical data request and receipt, quality control and assurance and cost tracking for analytical data. It provides a consistent approach for managing all analyses across the organization including exploration, mine production, processing, environmental and water management and ensures a single, verifiable version of the truth for all analytical data.
Mincom Assay Management uses a flexible workflow engine to allow structured validation, quality assurance (QA), signoff and distribution of data to various target analysis systems (e.g. 3D modeling tools or metals accounting systems). QA is built into the workflows to ensure it is reviewed as data are receipted allowing initiation of corrective measures before QA problems become extensive.
The Mincom Assay Management solution is designed to meet current audit requirements by tracking every data change and requiring appropriate authentication to undertake any activity within the system.
The solution includes enterprise-wide sample and result registers, web-based sample despatch, a calculation engine that can pre-calculate derived data (eg "preferred" assays or mineral assemblage calculations), sophisticated data validation rules and SOA (services oriented architecture) compliant results receipt and distribution.
The Mincom Assay Management solution:
- Streamlines the assay management process across the mining enterprise.
- Reduces regulatory compliance costs by providing systematic and auditable processes for handling analytical data.
- Clearly identifies and describes the master copy of any data, eliminating confusion as to the correct copy of the data.
- Allows centralization of data management functions without loss of functionality for field offices, reducing costs, enabling greater organizational flexibility and securing critical data.
- Facilitates analysis of QA data, enabling early problem detection and resolution.
- Integrates with financial systems in the areas of budget allocation, cost tracking and invoice release.
- SOA approach simplifies integration with enterprise information architectures.
Mincom Assay Management integrates with other Mincom products providing streamlined analytical data management for Mincom Exploration, Mincom MineScape, Mincom MineMarket and Mincom Production Accounting.