The intuitive solution for short-term scheduling

Add XACT Schedule Solver to give XACT the ability to generate its own schedules.

With Schedule Solver, you can target very tight grade bands and dozens of grade objectives simultaneously to find optimal solutions, while eliminating many manual steps.

Schedule Solver works with tasks the planner has laid out on the board or pulls tasks straight from the database. Of course, you can also “lock” tasks away to provide an added measure of security. Schedule Solver delivers results to the planning board and the planner can make modifications directly. If the planner makes manual changes to the schedule, Schedule Solver preserves these in future re-calculations. With XACT Schedule Solver you can:

■

Meet dozens of grade objectives simultaneously;

■

Eliminate many of the manual steps required to create a detailed short-term schedule;

■

Manually adjust the optimised schedule and rebuild an optimal schedule that honours the changes; and

■

Use intelligent mathematical logic to provide a true optimal solution.

Schedule Solver has a proven track record in helping planning engineers create short-term schedules quickly, simply, and accurately.

Add it to your XACT solution

to start generating better

schedules immediately.

XACT Schedule Solver

_{Software Support}

RungePincockMinarco’s international network gives our customers multiple support options across multiple time zones. Our skilled professionals provide both technical software support and extended implementation support, covering any model or customization. Access RungePincockMinarco’s comprehensive support service by telephone or email, or get online and talk with our experts on the RPM Forums. No matter where you are globally, no matter how remote, we can help.

Further Information

For further information or a product demonstration, please email [email protected] or visit www.rpmglobal.com.

About RungePincockMinarco

RungePincockMinarco is the world’s largest independent group of mining technical experts, with history stretching back to 1968. We have local expertise in all mining regions and are experienced across all commodities and mining methods.

Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange on 27 May 2008 (ASX: RUL), RungePincockMinarco is a global leader in the provision of advisory consulting, technology and professional development solutions to the mining industry. We have global expertise achieved through our work in over 118 countries and our approach to the business of mining is strongly grounded in economic principles.

We operate offices in 18 locations across 12 countries on five continents.

The inTuiTive soluTion for shorT-Term scheduling

Systematic Mine

Planning Process

Visit rpmglobal.com to contact an office near you.

BASIC DATA ▪ Geological ▪ Metallurgical ▪ Market ▪ Geotechnical ▪ Ore Quality ▪ Infrastructur e EV ALUA TION MINE COSTING MINE SCHEDULING EQUIPMENT SIMULA TION SHOR T TERM

MINE DESIGN & LA YOUT EV ALUA TION MINE COSTING MINE SCHEDULING EQUIPMENT SIMULA TION MEDIUM TERM

MINE DESIGN & LA YOUT MINE DESIGN & LA

YOUT EV ALUA TION MINE COSTING MINE SCHEDULING EQUIPMENT SIMULA TION NEXT PHASE ALTERNA TIVE CASES LONG TERM

Build a framework

for a unified, systemised, corporate short-term

scheduling process that can be replicated across operations and

throughout an organisation.

XACT is a powerful mining operations solution, specifically designed to deal with the short-term

scheduling challenges you face every day.

In a dynamic environment, XACT gives you the flexibility and control to collaborate across departments

and deliver “do-able” plans for this shift and the next; today, tomorrow and beyond.

Created to be used across all mining methods and deposits, XACT will provide you with the tools you

need to construct, analyse and update short-term mining schedules on a regular basis. XACT’s finite

scheduling approach gives you greater control over your resourcing and provides a more efficient method

than standard project planning.

XACT provides input into other scheduling and financial simulation tools, and is designed to align

with automated reconciliation and re-forecasting methodologies. Its high resolution, combined with

its predictability and reliability, will help you deliver better plans; maintain higher corporate scheduling

standards; and deliver maximum value now and into the future.

XACT

Features

XACT, as a stand-alone package, delivers many features, including:

■

Finite scheduling capabilities that let you track and make best use of your individual resources;

■

All the necessary tools to efficiently manage short-term scheduling requirements including versatile databases, Gantt charts, plots and reports;

■

The ability to construct and analyse schedules with user-friendly “drag and drop” interactive tools;

■

Collaboration features that track and combine changes from multiple users, seamlessly, into the

master schedule;

■

A central repository for short-term scheduling data and logic; and

■

Powerful scenario analysis auditing functions.

Large scheduling projects often require more than one engineer to be working on the schedule at the same time. With XACT Workgroup Server, you can spread the scheduling workload amongst multiple engineers and

easily track and combine their changes back into the master schedule at any time.

Ideally suited to large, complex mining operations that require several production schedulers, XACT Workgroup Server makes it easy to validate parcels of work and log them back to a central server.

This feature complements basic XACT functionality and provides an auditable scheduling system that allows operations to efficiently manage their short-term scheduling requirements.

The XACT Workgroup Server tracks:

■

Changes to productive and non-productive tasks.

■

Reschedules;

■

Changes to Absolute Address dependencies; and

■

Changes to database values.

Changes to other parts of the project are not tracked as part of the distributed project. XACT Workgroup Server distributes scheduling tasks among the users who are assigned various Jurisdictions (resources and mine areas). As these users complete their tasks, XACT Workgroup Server tracks the changes and distributes them so the user group can work from the same version of the schedule.

Once the schedulers have completed their work, users (with appropriate permissions) can validate the plan, creating a baseline and approving the plan for release. By default, this approved plan becomes the basis of the next week’s plan, but you can view or roll back to any older plan or changeset at any time if necessary.

XACT Workgroup Server

XACT

Workgroup

Server

Submit changes

Get changes

■

Customisable Task Templates provide quick and easy scheduling of repetitious tasks and processes such as longwall moves and panel advances.

■

Considering delays as either fixed in time or scheduled as part of a sequence, allows detailed scheduling of tasks such as building stoppings or extending conveyors.

■

Custom charts help underground operators identify and control under- or over-allocation of personnel.

■

Customised, interactive 3D plots of the mine show any combination of parameters at any point in time. This allows the user to select and drag the most attractive blocks to the Gantt chart.

■

Achieve detailed grade blending with custom charts and reports that highlight both target and current grades of dumps and stockpiles.

XACT in Coal Mines

XACT in Metal Mines

Benefits

Achieve detailed grade blending with

custom charts and reports

that

highlight both target and current grades of dumps and stockpiles.

Rapidly

assess and update

short-term schedules

with interactive Gantt charts and reporting tools.

Track scheduling conflicts

between production and

maintenance activities quickly and with confidence.

Add

XACT Workgroup Server

to collaborate with colleagues and

spread the scheduling workload among multiple engineers, without

losing control of changes and updates.

Add value to your operation’s governance

platform, from pit to boardroom.

Build a framework

for a unified, systemised, corporate short-term

scheduling process that can be replicated across operations and

throughout an organisation.

XACT is a powerful mining operations solution, specifically designed to deal with the short-term

scheduling challenges you face every day.

In a dynamic environment, XACT gives you the flexibility and control to collaborate across departments

and deliver “do-able” plans for this shift and the next; today, tomorrow and beyond.

Created to be used across all mining methods and deposits, XACT will provide you with the tools you

need to construct, analyse and update short-term mining schedules on a regular basis. XACT’s finite

scheduling approach gives you greater control over your resourcing and provides a more efficient method

than standard project planning.

XACT provides input into other scheduling and financial simulation tools, and is designed to align

with automated reconciliation and re-forecasting methodologies. Its high resolution, combined with

its predictability and reliability, will help you deliver better plans; maintain higher corporate scheduling

standards; and deliver maximum value now and into the future.

XACT

Features

XACT, as a stand-alone package, delivers many features, including:

■

Finite scheduling capabilities that let you track and make best use of your individual resources;

■

All the necessary tools to efficiently manage short-term scheduling requirements including versatile databases, Gantt charts, plots and reports;

■

The ability to construct and analyse schedules with user-friendly “drag and drop” interactive tools;

■

Collaboration features that track and combine changes from multiple users, seamlessly, into the

master schedule;

■

A central repository for short-term scheduling data and logic; and

■

Powerful scenario analysis auditing functions.

Large scheduling projects often require more than one engineer to be working on the schedule at the same time. With XACT Workgroup Server, you can spread the scheduling workload amongst multiple engineers and

easily track and combine their changes back into the master schedule at any time.

Ideally suited to large, complex mining operations that require several production schedulers, XACT Workgroup Server makes it easy to validate parcels of work and log them back to a central server.

This feature complements basic XACT functionality and provides an auditable scheduling system that allows operations to efficiently manage their short-term scheduling requirements.

The XACT Workgroup Server tracks:

■

Changes to productive and non-productive tasks.

■

Reschedules;

■

Changes to Absolute Address dependencies; and

■

Changes to database values.

Changes to other parts of the project are not tracked as part of the distributed project. XACT Workgroup Server distributes scheduling tasks among the users who are assigned various Jurisdictions (resources and mine areas). As these users complete their tasks, XACT Workgroup Server tracks the changes and distributes them so the user group can work from the same version of the schedule.

Once the schedulers have completed their work, users (with appropriate permissions) can validate the plan, creating a baseline and approving the plan for release. By default, this approved plan becomes the basis of the next week’s plan, but you can view or roll back to any older plan or changeset at any time if necessary.

XACT Workgroup Server

XACT

Workgroup

Server

Submit changes

Get changes

■

Customisable Task Templates provide quick and easy scheduling of repetitious tasks and processes such as longwall moves and panel advances.

■

Considering delays as either fixed in time or scheduled as part of a sequence, allows detailed scheduling of tasks such as building stoppings or extending conveyors.

■

Custom charts help underground operators identify and control under- or over-allocation of personnel.

■

Customised, interactive 3D plots of the mine show any combination of parameters at any point in time. This allows the user to select and drag the most attractive blocks to the Gantt chart.

■

Achieve detailed grade blending with custom charts and reports that highlight both target and current grades of dumps and stockpiles.

XACT in Coal Mines

XACT in Metal Mines

Benefits

Achieve detailed grade blending with

custom charts and reports

that

highlight both target and current grades of dumps and stockpiles.

Rapidly

assess and update

short-term schedules

with interactive Gantt charts and reporting tools.

Track scheduling conflicts

between production and

maintenance activities quickly and with confidence.

Add

XACT Workgroup Server

to collaborate with colleagues and

spread the scheduling workload among multiple engineers, without

losing control of changes and updates.

Add value to your operation’s governance

platform, from pit to boardroom.

Build a framework

for a unified, systemised, corporate short-term

scheduling process that can be replicated across operations and

throughout an organisation.

XACT is a powerful mining operations solution, specifically designed to deal with the short-term

scheduling challenges you face every day.

In a dynamic environment, XACT gives you the flexibility and control to collaborate across departments

and deliver “do-able” plans for this shift and the next; today, tomorrow and beyond.

Created to be used across all mining methods and deposits, XACT will provide you with the tools you

need to construct, analyse and update short-term mining schedules on a regular basis. XACT’s finite

scheduling approach gives you greater control over your resourcing and provides a more efficient method

than standard project planning.

XACT provides input into other scheduling and financial simulation tools, and is designed to align

with automated reconciliation and re-forecasting methodologies. Its high resolution, combined with

its predictability and reliability, will help you deliver better plans; maintain higher corporate scheduling

standards; and deliver maximum value now and into the future.

XACT

Features

XACT, as a stand-alone package, delivers many features, including:

■

Finite scheduling capabilities that let you track and make best use of your individual resources;

■

All the necessary tools to efficiently manage short-term scheduling requirements including versatile databases, Gantt charts, plots and reports;

■

The ability to construct and analyse schedules with user-friendly “drag and drop” interactive tools;

■

Collaboration features that track and combine changes from multiple users, seamlessly, into the

master schedule;

■

A central repository for short-term scheduling data and logic; and

■

Powerful scenario analysis auditing functions.

Large scheduling projects often require more than one engineer to be working on the schedule at the same time. With XACT Workgroup Server, you can spread the scheduling workload amongst multiple engineers and

easily track and combine their changes back into the master schedule at any time.

Ideally suited to large, complex mining operations that require several production schedulers, XACT Workgroup Server makes it easy to validate parcels of work and log them back to a central server.

This feature complements basic XACT functionality and provides an auditable scheduling system that allows operations to efficiently manage their short-term scheduling requirements.

The XACT Workgroup Server tracks:

■

Changes to productive and non-productive tasks.

■

Reschedules;

■

Changes to Absolute Address dependencies; and

■

Changes to database values.

Changes to other parts of the project are not tracked as part of the distributed project. XACT Workgroup Server distributes scheduling tasks among the users who are assigned various Jurisdictions (resources and mine areas). As these users complete their tasks, XACT Workgroup Server tracks the changes and distributes them so the user group can work from the same version of the schedule.

Once the schedulers have completed their work, users (with appropriate permissions) can validate the plan, creating a baseline and approving the plan for release. By default, this approved plan becomes the basis of the next week’s plan, but you can view or roll back to any older plan or changeset at any time if necessary.

XACT Workgroup Server

XACT

Workgroup

Server

Submit changes

Get changes

■

Customisable Task Templates provide quick and easy scheduling of repetitious tasks and processes such as longwall moves and panel advances.

■

Considering delays as either fixed in time or scheduled as part of a sequence, allows detailed scheduling of tasks such as building stoppings or extending conveyors.

■

Custom charts help underground operators identify and control under- or over-allocation of personnel.

■

Customised, interactive 3D plots of the mine show any combination of parameters at any point in time. This allows the user to select and drag the most attractive blocks to the Gantt chart.

■

Achieve detailed grade blending with custom charts and reports that highlight both target and current grades of dumps and stockpiles.

XACT in Coal Mines

XACT in Metal Mines

Benefits

Achieve detailed grade blending with

custom charts and reports

that

highlight both target and current grades of dumps and stockpiles.

Rapidly

assess and update

short-term schedules

with interactive Gantt charts and reporting tools.

Track scheduling conflicts

between production and

maintenance activities quickly and with confidence.

Add

XACT Workgroup Server

to collaborate with colleagues and

spread the scheduling workload among multiple engineers, without

losing control of changes and updates.

Add value to your operation’s governance

platform, from pit to boardroom.

Add XACT Schedule Solver to give XACT the ability to generate its own schedules.

With Schedule Solver, you can target very tight grade bands and dozens of grade objectives simultaneously to find optimal solutions, while eliminating many manual steps.

Schedule Solver works with tasks the planner has laid out on the board or pulls tasks straight from the database. Of course, you can also “lock” tasks away to provide an added measure of security. Schedule Solver delivers results to the planning board and the planner can make modifications directly. If the planner makes manual changes to the schedule, Schedule Solver preserves these in future re-calculations. With XACT Schedule Solver you can:

■

Meet dozens of grade objectives simultaneously;

■

Eliminate many of the manual steps required to create a detailed short-term schedule;

■

Manually adjust the optimised schedule and rebuild an optimal schedule that honours the changes; and

■

Use intelligent mathematical logic to provide a true optimal solution.

Schedule Solver has a proven track record in helping planning engineers create short-term schedules quickly, simply, and accurately.

Add it to your XACT solution

to start generating better

schedules immediately.

XACT Schedule Solver

_{Software Support}

RungePincockMinarco’s international network gives our customers multiple support options across multiple time zones. Our skilled professionals provide both technical software support and extended implementation support, covering any model or customization. Access RungePincockMinarco’s comprehensive support service by telephone or email, or get online and talk with our experts on the RPM Forums. No matter where you are globally, no matter how remote, we can help.

Further Information

For further information or a product demonstration, please email [email protected] or visit www.rpmglobal.com.

About RungePincockMinarco

RungePincockMinarco is the world’s largest independent group of mining technical experts, with history stretching back to 1968. We have local expertise in all mining regions and are experienced across all commodities and mining methods.

Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange on 27 May 2008 (ASX: RUL), RungePincockMinarco is a global leader in the provision of advisory consulting, technology and professional development solutions to the mining industry. We have global expertise achieved through our work in over 118 countries and our approach to the business of mining is strongly grounded in economic principles.

We operate offices in 18 locations across 12 countries on five continents.

The inTuiTive soluTion for shorT-Term scheduling

Systematic Mine

Planning Process

Visit rpmglobal.com to contact an office near you.

BASIC DATA ▪ Geological ▪ Metallurgical ▪ Market ▪ Geotechnical ▪ Ore Quality ▪ Infrastructur e EV ALUA TION MINE COSTING MINE SCHEDULING EQUIPMENT SIMULA TION SHOR T TERM

MINE DESIGN & LA YOUT EV ALUA TION MINE COSTING MINE SCHEDULING EQUIPMENT SIMULA TION MEDIUM TERM

MINE DESIGN & LA YOUT MINE DESIGN & LA

YOUT EV ALUA TION MINE COSTING MINE SCHEDULING EQUIPMENT SIMULA TION NEXT PHASE ALTERNA TIVE CASES LONG TERM

Add XACT Schedule Solver to give XACT the ability to generate its own schedules.

With Schedule Solver, you can target very tight grade bands and dozens of grade objectives simultaneously to find optimal solutions, while eliminating many manual steps.

Schedule Solver works with tasks the planner has laid out on the board or pulls tasks straight from the database. Of course, you can also “lock” tasks away to provide an added measure of security. Schedule Solver delivers results to the planning board and the planner can make modifications directly. If the planner makes manual changes to the schedule, Schedule Solver preserves these in future re-calculations. With XACT Schedule Solver you can:

■

Meet dozens of grade objectives simultaneously;

■

Eliminate many of the manual steps required to create a detailed short-term schedule;

■

Manually adjust the optimised schedule and rebuild an optimal schedule that honours the changes; and

■

Use intelligent mathematical logic to provide a true optimal solution.

Schedule Solver has a proven track record in helping planning engineers create short-term schedules quickly, simply, and accurately.

Add it to your XACT solution

to start generating better

schedules immediately.

XACT Schedule Solver

_{Software Support}

RungePincockMinarco’s international network gives our customers multiple support options across multiple time zones. Our skilled professionals provide both technical software support and extended implementation support, covering any model or customization. Access RungePincockMinarco’s comprehensive support service by telephone or email, or get online and talk with our experts on the RPM Forums. No matter where you are globally, no matter how remote, we can help.

Further Information

For further information or a product demonstration, please email [email protected] or visit www.rpmglobal.com.

About RungePincockMinarco

RungePincockMinarco is the world’s largest independent group of mining technical experts, with history stretching back to 1968. We have local expertise in all mining regions and are experienced across all commodities and mining methods.

Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange on 27 May 2008 (ASX: RUL), RungePincockMinarco is a global leader in the provision of advisory consulting, technology and professional development solutions to the mining industry. We have global expertise achieved through our work in over 118 countries and our approach to the business of mining is strongly grounded in economic principles.

We operate offices in 18 locations across 12 countries on five continents.

The inTuiTive soluTion for shorT-Term scheduling

Systematic Mine

Planning Process

Visit rpmglobal.com to contact an office near you.

BASIC DATA ▪ Geological ▪ Metallurgical ▪ Market ▪ Geotechnical ▪ Ore Quality ▪ Infrastructur e EV ALUA TION MINE COSTING MINE SCHEDULING EQUIPMENT SIMULA TION SHOR T TERM

MINE DESIGN & LA YOUT EV ALUA TION MINE COSTING MINE SCHEDULING EQUIPMENT SIMULA TION MEDIUM TERM

MINE DESIGN & LA YOUT MINE DESIGN & LA

YOUT EV ALUA TION MINE COSTING MINE SCHEDULING EQUIPMENT SIMULA TION NEXT PHASE ALTERNA TIVE CASES LONG TERM