Case Study: Rio Tinto Fuels Mine Planning and Pit Optimisation Globally with Gemcom Whittle

Rio Tinto Group is an international mining organisation. With diverse operations in many areas, the company depends on its technology and innovation group to help guide its decisions on leading practices and technology use. The group stays abreast of the latest innovations that will give Rio Tinto a competitive advantage and drive performance improvements in mine design, scheduling, and geological modelling. The group assessed the status and benefits of the Gemcom Whittle software and endorsed it as one of the company’s standard tools for economic evaluation of open pit mines.

Even before adopting Whittle as one of its standard analysis tools, the company had used the software extensively across the organisation for about 10 years. It had proved beneficial for long-term planning and conducting feasibility studies for Rio Tinto’s large, open pit mines. The staff leveraged the software to gain a wide angle view of the physical, economic and mining constraints regarding their pit designs. Over the years, Whittle has helped the staff advance Rio Tinto’s strategy of converting ore bodies into long-life, efficient operations that can sustain the company through business cycles.

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