Maptek Vulcan

Maptek Vulcan is a software solution designed specifically for mining engineers and geologists. According to the vendor, it serves as a tool for designing, evaluating, and maintaining mine operations. The product caters to mining companies of various sizes, from small-scale operations to large multinational corporations. It is used by professionals in the fields of mining engineering, geology, surveying, exploration geology, and resource geology.

Key Features

Vulcan Geology: According to the vendor, this feature allows users to manage, view, and validate drillhole data, interpret geological structures, accurately model orebodies and deposits, and prepare resource reports.

Vulcan Open Pit Mine Planning: The vendor claims that this feature enables users to design, evaluate, and maintain daily open pit mine operations, modify designs and interact with them dynamically, compare planned surfaces against actual topography, and create equipment schedules.

Vulcan Surveyor Bundle: According to the vendor, this bundle allows users to import survey data into Vulcan for review and manipulation, communicate directly with survey technology to reduce errors, download/upload to data collectors and total stations, and perform survey network adjustments.

Vulcan GeoStatModeller Bundle: The vendor states that this bundle provides the capability to perform geostatistical analysis for resource modeling, create variograms and conduct comprehensive analysis and reporting, estimate grades using various methods, and apply multivariate transformation tools.

Vulcan Explorer Bundle: According to the vendor, this bundle offers an interactive 3D visualization and modeling environment, allowing users to assess block models and 3D surfaces, manage and validate various data types, and perform statistical analysis.

Vulcan GeologyCore: The vendor claims that this feature streamlines the workflow for importing and validating drillhole data, generating geological models, managing and validating different data types, and creating/editing 3D surface and solid triangulations.

Vulcan MineModeller Underground Bundle: According to the vendor, this bundle provides tools for designing, evaluating, and guiding daily underground mine operations, applying dedicated mining tools, storing and using information via variables, and creating custom reserve reports.

Vulcan Pit Optimizer: The vendor claims that this feature allows users to integrate with block modeling tools, determine optimum pit design based on economic and technical parameters, generate pit optimization analysis reports, and dynamically update the design.

Vulcan Data Analyser: According to the vendor, this feature enables users to perform data analysis, generate charts for reporting, define estimation domains, and automatically refresh graphs when input data changes.

Vulcan Short Term Planner: The vendor states that this feature allows users to analyze mining scenarios, create schedules for short-term planning, assign resources, and generate reports and export data.