Seequent Evo, the latest innovation from Seequent, is a powerful cloud-based platform designed to unite disconnected teams and data to inspire mining innovation, writes Pieter Neethling, Director of Business Development, Platform Success.
Geoscience professionals worldwide are seeking smarter, more efficient ways to handle and validate subsurface data. A survey of over 700 geo-professionals, as detailed in Seequent’s Geoprofessionals Data Management report, revealed that 70% consider data management critically important, yet 60% lack the necessary information to make accurate, informed decisions.
Most respondents said they spent a vast amount of time wrangling with data management versus adding true value in their capacity as professionals. It’s a sentiment that remains strong in 2025, with the fragmented nature of data and software considered a key challenge across the geoscience community.
Seequent Evo, the latest innovation from Seequent, is a powerful cloud-based platform designed to help solve industry challenges by uniting disconnected teams and data with an open approach.
Evo offers public APIs to simplify the movement of customer information, including Seequent and competitor applications, to unlock the full potential of complex subsurface data and empower organisations to make faster, more informed decisions.
At the PDAC 2025 launch of Evo, Seequent’s CEO Graham Grant said Evo is going to ‘unlock unbelievable levels of value for our mining customers.’ And how will it do that? ‘One word – because it’s open.’
Structural data generated by Driver showing the local continuity of gold (Au) grade in a mineral deposit data set.
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Evo: the future of subsurface intelligence
Seequent Evo arrives at a crucial time for geoscience industries, especially mining. To meet the global demand for critical minerals, the industry must find new ways to increase productivity and efficiency. Adding to this challenge is the critical shortage of geologists, making it more essential than ever to empower and optimise the capabilities of geologists to the fullest.
Mining operations depend on accurate geoscience data for exploration, resource extraction, and reducing environmental impact. However, managing, standardising, and analysing vast, dispersed datasets often involves complex workflows across multiple software, which can lead to the risk of data loss or entry errors.
With its cross-platform connectivity, Evo addresses these complexities, unlocking the full potential of geoscience data and empowering companies to draw unparalleled insights, improve efficiency, and save time and resources. Teams can centralise geoscience data from both Seequent and third-party applications into a single, accessible source to effortlessly share data, draw valuable insights from past projects, and work with the most up-to-date information.
Seequent Evo is the future of subsurface intelligence. It provides a secure and auditable platform for geoscience data, enabling teams to work more efficiently and effectively. With Evo, organisations can evolve the way they work and achieve greater project success, said Pieter Neethling, Seequent’s Director of Business Development, Platform Success.
Seequent Director, Business Development, Platform Success, Pieter Neethling.
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Evo’s powerful cloud-compute capabilities
Gabi Brandao, Director of Orebody Knowledge at Teck Resources and a Seequent customer for more than ten years, was part of the limited availability program for Seequent Evo.
She told attendants at a Seequent customer event during PDAC 2025 that it had been exciting watching the platform come together and that the first release of Evo was the foundation for something bigger, potentially marking the beginning of ‘another Seequent revolution.’
Evo unlocks more value by adding to ore body knowledge, particularly grade control. It enhances the capabilities of Seequent’s desktop solutions, like Leapfrog, and extends them to harness the power of the cloud. This can make complex calculations run faster and enables larger data sets.
It will enable AI and machine learning as well as the opportunity to build custom applications and integrations. Its geospatial search incorporates the capabilities of Cesium, a recent acquisition by Bentley Systems.
By leveraging Evo, geoscientists and mining professionals can streamline workflows, enhance collaboration, and confidently make informed decisions, translating to increased efficiency, reduced risk of data loss, and ultimately, greater project success.
Drillholes with corresponding gold assays and interpretation grade shells shown in Seequent Evo 3D-viewer
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Evo: evolving with the digital demands of mining
Further reinforcing Evo’s impact, Seequent has developed two new mining-specific applications, Driver and BlockSync.
Driver is a cloud-based tool that enhances exploratory data analysis for geologists. It helps build 3D models faster by quickly providing information and using machine learning to reveal local trends, while allowing for adjustments based on an expert’s understanding of the ore body.
‘Driver is a really good addition to the modelling toolkit,’ said Brandao. ‘It takes the data set and applies machine learning, and it started to help us to understand, what are the trends and what are the anisotropies.’
BlockSync redefines how teams manage, analyse, and connect their block model data. It offers an open, auditable system of record where teams can collaborate on block model data from any source. It provides rapid model updates and real-time resource insights, enhancing orebody knowledge for improved decision-making and economic understanding.
Seequent CEO Graham Grant told attendants at the customer event that block models were the key data structure in mining but that they had traditionally been locked up ‘like Fort Knox.’
‘BlockSync fundamentally breaks this paradigm open. We break it into an open, auditable system of record where you can take block model data from any source, liberate it away from the software where it shouldn’t be, and put it in the cloud where it should be.’
‘So your teams can collaborate, they can enquire, they can look at just a bit, not the whole thing, no longer be moving terabytes around a billion block models. And you can update and make frequent decisions on-the-fly. It’s secure, it’s auditable and it has traceability.’
Pieter Neethling has over 30 years of experience in the mining sector and was the former Seequent Segment Director for Mining Operations.
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