Seequent Chief Technology Officer John Vandermay told Mining.com’s that Seequent Evo is the ‘secret sauce’ which will be a game-changer for the mining industry.
By Paul Gorman
Seequent Evo’s unlocking of geological data from across many sources will help transform a mining industry facing tricky challenges, from soaring demand to rising costs.
In an interview with Northern Miner, Seequent CTO John Vandermay said Seequent Evo effectively smoothed the data path and connected modelling tools directly with geoscience platforms.
‘The data can come from a Seequent product or a non-Seequent product, it can come from our customers’ own systems or from partner systems. It can even come from competitor systems,’ he told Northern Miner.
Customers using Seequent’s BlockSync and Driver products could maximise them through Seequent Evo in a way that was ‘very, very powerful and very, very enabling’.
‘Being able to get faster, more accurate insights into your geological models and understanding what you have underneath the subsurface of the earth is critical,’ John said.
Asked how the products could give mining companies greater confidence when evaluating the worth of an orebody, John said it was about ‘making the right decisions off the right data’.
‘Oftentimes it’s difficult to know what the latest version of your geological model is. What is the latest version of your block model. And having all the lineage, in terms of knowing who did what when.
‘Understanding the transformations that data went through is absolutely key. And Seequent Evo provides that full capability in terms of versioning, auditability, traceability, data lineage, all in one place.’
There was a lot of talk about artificial intelligence in the industry and how it might shape exploration and mine development during the next decade, John said.
‘With Evo being open, using web standards for APIs (application-programming interfaces), making the schemas and reference applications open-source, Seequent is enabling machine learning and geo-agentic AI to be deployed in the mining industry at scale.
‘As a result, we are going to see significant transformation enabled and unlocked through Seequent Evo.’
