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We build mining software that’s used by hundreds of sites worldwide. And we’re serious about creating reliable prediction, optimisation and decision support tools for mining professionals.

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MAXTA

Discover enterprise-grade orebody learning software for value chain optimisation. Data fusion ore tracking is at the heart of all MAXTA applications.

MAXTADrill&Blast

Achieve digital mine-to-mill or pit-to-port optimisation by using your best performing blast designs for your site’s unique geological variability.

MAXTAGeomet

Increase the accuracy of mine planning by adding orebody learning variables to your geological block model.

MAXTALoad&Haul

Increase the accuracy of mine scheduling inputs and dispatch to improve load and haul efficiency.

MAXTAProcess

Optimise by modelling your whole plant and dynamically adjust set points for variable plant ore feed.

FORESTALL

Avoid costly breakdown events using platform agnostic machine health and predictive maintenance software.

ROCKRay

Turn hundreds of drill core test results to thousands of predictions along uncharacterised lengths of drill core.

FRAGx

FRAGx is purpose built for low quality and distorted laser scans. Ideally suited for high volume automated processing to monitor trends in fragmentation.

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PETRA Advisory Services: AI Adoption Framework

Secure Data Uploader

MAXTA provides a secure user interface for data upload and sharing enabling customers to easily and quickly share, update and check status of datasets provided to PETRA. PETRA is ISO27001 certified, giving you peace of mind that best practise security and safety is applied throughout our entire business and products. Further to this, the data uploader allows you to see and query all historical data interactions related to MAXTA in one place, proving auditability and assurance.

Business Case

MAXTA offers unique and detailed insights into the performance of your mine and the various processes operating within it. This presents opportunities for improvement and optimisation, but also creates many questions about what those insights mean and how you might best take advantage of them. To help with this, as part of the MAXTA implementation, Petra will work with you to conduct a business case study to link the insights and findings enabled by the MAXTA models to tangible, real world outcomes for your business. This may be as simple as identifying overall cost savings in operations, or may be more complex. Our team are very experienced in the application of AI and the results MAXTA can offer to mining companies and a business case describing the benefits to your company of using MAXTA can help with adoption, understanding and change management, adding significant value to the solution.

Insights

The creation and quality of site specific AI models to simulate and optimise downstream processes depends somewhat on the quality of data used in the creation of the models. Petra has over 10 years of experience creating these models and has automated the generation of insights at the early stages of the AI model creation to help guide users toward the best results possible, quickly. These insights include data quality and fitness for purpose, as well as recommended solutions or alternatives. We recognise that all mining companies have different ways of representing thier operations in data models and those differences are important, but should not be a barrier to success in the adoption of AI. MAXTA insights guide users to prepare and provide the best data possible for the intended objectives.

Value Capture

Petra will work with you to capture the value identified in the Business Case studies and ensure that it is landed on the ground and embedded into your workflows and business processes. Achieving and demonstrating a return on investment is critical and the introduction of a new technology always carries some risk. Unfortunately, those risks are often realised when the solution is not deployed and used as it was originally intended, because it was not understood fully, or was not properly incorporated into peoples workflows and systems. We will assist with pre and post implementation stage work to identify, quantify and document objectives and outcomes and track the achievement of these in a business case context. Our objective is that your company realises the improvement you want to achieve.

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Why PETRA?

We empower mining professionals to continuously improve and make better decisions by prioritising geological uncertainty. We aim to minimise frustration for engineers who are required to design and plan with inputs that have a high level of variabilty.

Our key solution is our proprietary ore-tracking which fuses operational performance with geology to provide robust inputs for engineering.

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