Improving connectivity between mine sites and corporate offices

Central allows us to publish our resource estimates and all of those models are available immediately to everyone, from management all the way back to the working mine geologist.

Video Transcript

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<v ->First Majestic Silver is a Canadian company</v>

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focused on extracting and producing silver in Mexico.

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First Majestic produced in excess of 15 million ounces

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of silver equivalent per year.

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First Majestic has six operating mines

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because we have settings in different places.

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Connectivity’s an issue,

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and the way we interface between them mine site personnel

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and the corporate personnel.

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<v ->Obviously with a company like First Majestic,</v>

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we have a lot of users on a lot of different areas,

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and their focus is very different.

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Leapfrog Geo is critical to develop a realistic presentation

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of the geology at each site.

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<v ->We use Leapfrog Geo both onsite</v>

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and at the corporate office here.

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What we’re working with is complex silver deposits.

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We have multiple veins.

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<v ->We are creating the first interpretation</v>

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for one of our veins.

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Leapfrog Geo’s help us a lot to save some time

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because it’s so easy and so quick.

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We can do too many things just with a right click.

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<v ->We’ve produced all of our resources in February.</v>

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I’m using the combination of Leapfrog Geo

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and Leapfrog Edge.

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We realized it would help us effectively capture

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multiple resources across multiple mines

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in a time effective manner.

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The dynamic nature of Leapfrog Geo with Edge is of course,

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an incredibly interesting concept.

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If you reload a new drill hole set,

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the minute you adopt those into your geologic model,

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that flows through

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and dynamically updates your established resource estimate.

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<v ->Implementation of Central has helped connect us a lot more</v>

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than we were previously.

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So it is definitely a driver for collaboration

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and further connection within all of our mine sites.

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<v ->So Central allows us to publish our models,</v>

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publish our resource estimates,

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and all those models are immediately available to everyone.

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From management all the way back

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to the working mine geologists.

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<v ->I really liked the way</v>

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how we can work together with other people

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and they can see the interpretations in the real time.

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<v ->Central is helping us</v>

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to really reevaluate our company culture.

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<v ->I can’t see that we could go back to not using Central.</v>

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We would lose a tremendous amount of time and capability.

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<v ->I think in First Majestic,</v>

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we are in the right track

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to implement the best industry practices

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in resource modeling.

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And the products that we have chosen with Seequent

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are allow us to get to that place faster.

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