Ten customer results from coal, copper and gold operations, each achieved with the same software. BlendOpt is Paradyn’s configurable optimisation platform, used as mining value chain optimisation software: taking the mine plan your planners supply as an input, it plans stockpiling, blending, processing, logistics and sales together, so every decision is judged by what it earns for the whole operation.
Below it is configured for life-of-mine and multi-plant planning, multi-mine product strategy, coal quality consistency, stockpiles, technical marketing, bottlenecks, product portfolios, port blending and metals mill feed. Each card gives the headline result and links to the full write-up and the matching solution.
Coal specification violations across a five-year plan at a multi-seam mine, without changing the mining schedule.
From 39-year life-of-mine plans to the blend loaded onto a vessel today. At each operation BlendOpt was configured for the decision that mattered and optimised it with the rest of the value chain.
A coal operation with multiple processing plants took its 39-year Xpac mine schedule as an input and optimised plant, product and sales decisions over life of mine, against that existing plan.
ROM from several mines, three processing plants and barge loading optimised as one value chain to rework the product portfolio and blending strategy.
A multi-seam mine planned stockpiling, CHPP processing and product blends so every product stayed within specification.
A coal operation tested its ROM stockpile capacities and definitions with BlendOpt, then implemented the recommended changes.
A New South Wales mine tested its export thermal coal product definitions and found two new products could replace all five existing ones.
A coal mine compared a proposed CHPP capacity upgrade with operational alternatives and eliminated the bottleneck on a value basis instead.
An open-pit coal operation producing over 31 Mt a year searched for the product portfolio that best fits the coal it mines, over a 10-year horizon.
A South African coal exporter replaced trial-and-error blend development at the port with optimised train-to-vessel blending.
At copper and gold operations BlendOpt is configured for mine-to-mill planning. ROM stockpiles, reclaim, crusher and mill feed and recovery are optimised together, so the plant receives feed it can process as planned and each day’s decision is judged by its effect on the whole schedule.
BlendOpt schedules ROM reclaim, crusher and mill feed within grade constraints and crusher and mill capacities.
A copper operation tested new ROM stockpile definitions and optimised reclaim over time, then implemented the changes at site, lifting recovery and concentrate grade.
Each result on this page came from configuring BlendOpt for a specific decision. Bring us the decision that matters in your operation, and we will show you how BlendOpt would be configured to answer it.
Bring us the problem. We’ll show you what BlendOpt finds when the whole value chain is optimised together.
Tell us about the decision you are trying to make. We will show you how BlendOpt models it, whether you license the platform, commission a study, or have our specialists run it for you.