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SourceOne promises solution to miners’
DATA DILEMMA By Alisha Hiyate
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he amount of data that is produced at mine sites has prolif erated in recent years, but the question of how to manage that information still looms large. The problem is that as sof tware applications and connected equipment have multiplied – as essential as they are to eff iciency and productivity – they tend to work in isolation f rom each other. In order to integrate data from differen applications so they can use it more effe tively, many of the larger mining companies have resorted to developing their own internal solutions, says Rudy Moctezuma, chief business development office of software developer Eclipse Mining. 22 | CANADIAN
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“There hasn’t been a platform that can solve what they’re trying to do, which is integrating data from all these sources so they can use it – they have had to do it themselves,” he explained in an interview with CMJ in November. “However, mining organizations are not technology companies, so while they can develop some of these solutions to solve a specific problem, it’s really difficu for them to maintain.” Eclipse Mining was started in 2018 to addresss this issue. In February, the startup launched SourceOne – a vendor-neutral, open platf orm f or the mining industry that integrates, centralizes and organizes data in one location, where
it is ready to be consumed and used in analytic solutions like Microsoft PowerBI or Tableau. “It’s an industry platf orm which integrates data f rom dif f erent sources of the mine, it organizes and manages the data so the mining organizations can use all the inf ormation to make decisions,” Moctezuma says. Storing and linking data from all areas of the mine – from mine planning to operations, the processing plant, stockpile management and geotechnical data – makes new insights possible. By having data in near real time, the upper management of the mine can make sure goals are met and, ultimately, imwww.canadianminingjournal.com
