MineTwin Overview

MineTwin® is a configurable simulation-based decision support tool for underground and open-pit mines. MineTwin uses Amalgama® platform and libraries to provide fast and accurate simulation models of underground and open-pit mines.

MineTwin is intended for the mining companies and consultants, for both once-off projects and ongoing use in regular planning and decision support.

MineTwin helps mining companies with open-pit and underground mines at all phases of mines’ life cycles in the following circumstances:

MineTwin helps solve the following problems:

MineTwin users have reported significant improvements in their mining operations, leveraging the platform’s simulation and planning tools to achieve notable results such as:

MineTwin uses a simulation model – a detailed replication of a real mine’s operation inside a computer.

MineTwin is the only tool on the market that combines discrete-event simulation with linear programming and combinatorial optimization to build realistic digital twins of mines, including scheduling logic.

Unlike many other decision support tools, MineTwin considers most constraints and interdependencies of real-world mines, including:

Simulation captures non-linear and cyclical dependencies. These dependencies are very hard to capture by traditional calculations without a simulation.

Also, simulation can provide a range of likely outcomes for single scenarios, do sensitivity analysis and direct scenario comparisons. In other words, simulation provides a low-risk, low-cost way to test the impact of any changes on both operational and financial performance.

MineTwin is a desktop application that runs primarily on your local computer. Like other desktop engineering applications, it allows you to create simulation scenarios, save them as local files, run simulations and simulation studies, and view or export results and reports—all on your own machine. In most cases, MineTwin does not require an Internet connection, and you can continue working offline.

The only feature that transfers your data over the network is Run on Server. When you use this feature, your simulation scenario is securely uploaded to MineTwin’s cloud server, where the simulation is executed. Once the simulation is complete, the results are returned to your computer. Both the uploaded scenario and the generated results are automatically deleted from the cloud servers within a few days after the simulation finishes.

All data transferred between MineTwin and the cloud servers is encrypted using industry-standard HTTPS/TLS protocols.

MineTwin does not collect, store, process, or manage personal data unless you explicitly include such information in your simulation scenarios.

MineTwin is designed to operate primarily as a desktop application and requires network connectivity only for specific services. All communications use encrypted connections based on HTTPS/TLS.