CONGRATULATIONS TO DR. TONY DIERING!
Dr. Diering, the creator of Dassault Systèmes‘ innovative block-caving GEOVIA PCBC™ and sub-level caving GEOVIA PCSLC™ software applications, was named the 2015 inductee for mining software into the International Mining Technology Hall of Fame.
Dr. Diering has been involved in the development of mining applications for more than 30 years.
In 1987, Dr. Diering, in conjunction with Dr. Dennis Laubscher, developed the world renowned PCBC software while working for a premier diamond mine in South Africa. In 1994, Dr. Diering, once again with Dr. Dennis Laubscher, performed the main upgrade of PCBC for the Northparkes Mine in Australia, prior to the opening of their first block cave mine, which resulted in proven product and very useful design tool for use in both operating mines and producing feasibility studies.
To complement the PCBC software, Dr. Diering successfully developed the following applications:
- Foot Print Finder enables a quick study of different footprints at different elevations, before a more detailed footprint with explicit draw points is set up in PCBC.
- Cave Management System (CMS) is a daily draw order production system that monitors daily actual tonnages and status per draw point, and uses this to produce daily draw orders that can be fed to an LHD dispatch system.
- LSQ is a Least Squares draw point sample analysis tool, which enables calibration of draw columns against actual measured sample grades.
- PCSLC is similar to PCBC, and is used by planning engineers for feasibility studies as well as for operating mines that use Sublevel Caving.
Throughout his career, Dr. Diering has made enormous technical contributions to the world of block caving, specifically in the area of software development. His contributions are prevalent, in many different forms, at most of the major caving operations across the globe. A truly international figure, Dr. Diering is well recognized as a great technology innovator.
Congratulations Tony!
Read more about Dr. Diering and his contributions to the mining industry in the International Mining article.
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