From single-geologist juniors to multi-asset producers to government surveys — six stories that show how SMIN cuts weeks off the drillhole-to-report loop.
A single-project junior explorer on a West African greenstone gold prospect used SMIN to ingest 12,000 m of RC drilling, model implicit grade shells, run Ordinary Kriging estimation and publish a maiden JORC 2012 Inferred Resource in under six weeks. Zero on-premise software, one geologist, one consulting CP sign-off.
A mid-tier copper producer with four operating assets in South America and Africa consolidated four different desktop stacks (Datamine, Vulcan, Micromine, Leapfrog) onto SMIN. Estimation methodology, block-model geometry, classification rules and reporting templates are now consistent across the entire portfolio.
A boutique mining consultancy shifted their internal pit-optimisation practice to SMIN's Lerchs–Grossmann engine. Study turnaround dropped from 3 weeks to 4 days; sensitivity sweeps across 12 revenue factors run in under 20 minutes.
An Indian iron ore producer connected daily blast-hole assays back to the block model via SMIN's API. Reconciliation between planned and mined tonnes / grade is now monitored on a live workspace dashboard, cutting reconciliation loops from monthly to daily.
A national geological survey used SMIN to publish public-domain regional block models for lithium and rare earth prospectivity, downloadable in GSLIB and 3D-viewer-ready formats. All interpretation is fully reproducible from the raw dataset SHA-256 hash.
A leading mining school integrated SMIN into their MSc curriculum. 200+ postgraduate students work through a real-world gold deposit from drillhole ingestion to signed report — without paying legacy per-seat licence fees.
"SMIN replaced four different desktop packages across our four operating assets. We now have one estimation methodology, one classification rule and one reporting template — signed off by our CPs with full audit trails."
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