BCRisk ®

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Services
BCRisk®

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Expert engineering in sustainable mine
planning
Help the industry to define mine planning
standards based on the latest knowledge
available in cave mining.

Vision

Conduct mining studies and develops technologies that

contribute to establish a profitable, sustainable and safe
business, based on innovation, experience and technical
knowledge.

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BCTEC services
Mining design and planning
Conceptual engineering studies for
mining projects
Big Data Analysis for mining
Drill & Blast designs and analysis
Risk analysis for underground mining
Modelling and deposits assessment
Benchmark studies
New technologies assessment
Numerical Modelling
Stability assessment
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 Software that calculates the
geotechnical hazards based
on big data algorithms to
FLOWSIM
obtain more productive, safe
and reliable operations
3.0
Geotechnical risk is inherent in caving
mines and the knowledge evolve in time.
Unwanted events still cause damage to
workers and equipment, closed
extraction drives affecting the mine
overall results.

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Characteristics Benefits

Quantifies geotechnical hazards Improve mine safety and

such as hang ups, inrushes and planning reliability
dilution through Big Data techniques

Calculates key Performance Improve operational

Indicators of the extraction performance and draw control
process

Integrate and Displays data from Visualize key mine

diverse sources. E.g Tonnage, performance information for
drawpoint statuses, water inflow better operational/planning
decisions

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 BCRisk can model the hazards
based on the historical data
BCRisk software is based on big
collected at the mines from
data analysis techniques to
1 2
diverse source, e.g Tonnage,
quantify the main geotechnical
drawpoint statuses, water inflow
risks associated with draw

BCRisk can calculate the Key BCRisk can report key data
Performance Indicators of 3 4 for management and
the extraction process, such decision makers in a user-
as Uniformity Index friendly way

Inputs:
BCRisk can identify Hazards
(Inrush) 5 6 − Mine data (all Outputs
available data
to analyze) − Risk Assessment
− Wet muck
− Inrush Events at drawpoint
− Hang ups
(date and scale
− Swell Rill of Fines
drawpoint) − Tonnage under
− Dilution Entry
risk for a given
plan
− Critical zones
 EXPERIENCE

1. CODELCO
• El Teniente
• Recursos Norte
• Suapi +20% free from Improves Draw
• Pipa Norte events tonnage Performance
• Diablo
Regimiento
• Esmeralda Increase reliability on the Draw uniformity increases in a
• Andesita production plan 200%
• Diamante
• Reservas Norte

2. NEWCREST MINING +11% increase on +50% increases in

• Wafi Golpu
• Cadia East Dry ore Reserves Fines
• PC1
• PC2 Reserves that could be As the efficiency of the drainage
extracted using manual LHD system increases, the recovery of
increases due to assessment of reserves would increase
the draw sequence
 BCRisk®, software that calculates the geotechnical hazards based on
HISTORY big data analytics

2015 2015 2017 2018

2018 2020
2018 2019

Dilution Model Hang-up and Rill Swell and

Wetmuck CORFO Machine
and calibration wetmuck wetmuck
entry project Learning
with real data model model

Codelco, El Teniente Codelco, El Salvador Innovation and Design Newcrest Mining, Cadia Newcrest Mining, Cadia Last Generation
(I+D) development East and Wafi Golpu East
Study of the variables Dilution model to Big data analytics
New inrush was
related to the determinate the The Chilean Hang-up model to
development into
modelled to support
wetmuck entry suddendly ingress into government has determinate the hang
BCRisk software allow
the long and short
hazard and El Salvador mine. awarded I&D support up frequency and the
continuos improvement
term mine planning.
prototype for BCRisk Wafi golpu project
Since its development Codelco, Diamante and
development development and
BCRisk has been Andesita project.
packaging
New wetmuck model
compared with real mine
to support the long
data including
term mine planning.
Cadia East
El Teniente
Andina
Let’s be part of the new mine generation
Where data is used to improve the safety of the persons

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