Promine Inc. is a company which produces a self-titled software used for mining engineering and geological work. Promine functions as an extension of AutoDesk's AutoCAD software, providing additional functionality specifically oriented for work in the mining industry. Promine uses the native 3-Dimensional aspect of CAD software to enable users to produce functional models of working, planned or past mines. Though focused on development of underground mines, Promine also supports above ground mining as well as strictly geological work.
History
Promine was founded as Yvan Dionne Inc, by the company's founder and President Yvan Dionne over twenty years ago in Quebec, Canada. The incorporation was warranted due to the large number of functions he had developed on contract which together made a de facto software suite. After deciding on the company name, Promine, the company was reincorporated as Promine Inc. The company today stands at approximately 10 employees and has two separate branches, the Montreal office specializing in Marketing, sales and business development and the Quebec City office specializing in software development.
Areas of operation
Promine is available in English, French and Spanish, natively. The evolution of supported languages has followed the evolution of the company's client base. Promine was founded in Quebec, Canada, where the official language is French, and so too was the first language of the software. As clients from other Canadian provinces got the software, the need for an English version was satisfied. Finally, after much expansion into Canada and the United States the company began to make inroads into Latin America, eventually providing full Spanish translations. The company has clients in French-speaking Africa and several consultants in Europe use the software as well.
Promine Essentials
Hole Planning: Create robust drilling plans with adjustments for hole deviations and end of hole predictions. Issue customizable reports showing Hole IDs, length, diameter, hole type and other relevant information. Diamond Drill holes: Insert DDH and channels data into drawings. Annotate, create weighted averages and composite grades along holes for accurate block modeling and resource calculations. Resources: Insert samples and draw polygons based on samples or composites to evaluate resource tonnage and grades. Create 3D triangulations from selected samples and compute volumes. Block modeling: Create block models from drill hole data and carry out various resource calculations such as tonnage, grade, and density.
Modeling Modules
3D Drift: Create as-built plans of all your drifts swiftly with dated color coding as you receive your survey data from underground. 3D Raise: Create a model of various raise types with your survey data. Compute volume and tonnage using our 3D raise modeling tool. 3D Model: The perfect tool to model stopes, geological models, faults and other 3D objects from polylines. Room and Pillars: Mine out horizontal orebodies with ease using our room and pillar modelling module, from creating the 3D orebody model to picking out your pillar areas then calculating volume and tonnages. This is the tool to have for room and pillar mining. Solids: Calculate volumes and manipulate 3D models using commands such as union, intersection and subtraction as well as convert meshes from mesh to solid and vice versa. 3D Bench: Build top and bottom surfaces then create benches according to your specifications and gain accurate volume and tonnage calculations. Surface: A powerful tool to triangulate and manipulate 3D surfaces using face rotations, line or point additions and color coding according to elevations.
Engineering Modules
Drill and Blast Underground: Create drill and blast plans with delays, calculate powder factors and generate energy analysis to determine optimal rock breakage. Generate reports ready to be sent to the operations team. Drill and Blast Surface: Design drill and blast patterns for benches, calculate powder factors, delays, and create drilling and blasting reports ready to be sent to the operations team. Drift Planning: Design drifts and ramps with ease based on annotated centerlines. The drift planning module is capable of quickly creating 3D models and longitudinal sections along a drift to show advance progress, and survey information. Raise Planning: Connect underground workings by creating any type of raise. Annotate and model designs easily. Survey: Import and update drawings with survey data points in a few clicks. Annotate and insert stations to maintain accurate 3D models representing the as-built mine plans while maintaining an organized database. Stope Design: Compute tonnages and grades based on geological data from block models and create accurate annotations to keep stopes organized. Proximity: Maintain a safe mine by using the proximity module. Search layers and their coordinates to identify intersections between mine workings.
Geology Modules
Hole Planning: Create robust drilling plans with adjustments for hole deviations and end of hole predictions. Issue customizable reports showing Hole IDs, length, diameter, hole type and other relevant information. Diamond Drill holes: Insert DDH and channels data into drawings. Annotate, create weighted averages and composite grades along holes for accurate block modeling and resource calculations. Resources: Insert samples and draw polygons based on samples or composites to evaluate resource tonnage and grades. Create 3D triangulations from selected samples and compute volumes. Block modeling: Create block models from drill hole data and carry out various resource calculations such as tonnage, grade, and density.
