Detect reconciliation issues earlier. Understand why they happen. Quantify the value at risk. Resolve them before operational losses become permanent.
From the 3D engine with the whole mine to the potential economic impact: what Argus Mine does, in one minute. Narrated in English, with subtitles.
Recorded on the platform with demo data.
The difference between what was planned and what was executed —dilution, overbreak, sequence delay— doesn't disappear when nobody measures it: it accumulates, silently, until period close. Argus Mine turns it into an NPV figure, period after period, while there's still time to act.
Every mine site operates with a gap between the planned design and what actually happens on the ground. That gap always exists; the risk isn't that it exists, but that today it's detected late — at quarterly reconciliation, at period close, once the cost has already been taken.
You don't protect a mine site's value with more reports. You protect it by watching the gap between plan and reality before it becomes a loss.
An unreported overbreak, a dilution that grows unnoticed, a sequence delay that worsens month after month: individually, they're operational noise. Accumulated over a quarter, they're an NPV adjustment nobody can reverse anymore.
The goal isn't to document how much value has already been lost. It's to show, period by period, how much value is still at risk and how much of it is recoverable if you act in time.
Reconciliation latency turns an operational deviation into growing economic exposure — every day a problem goes undetected or unresolved, the value at risk keeps accumulating.
more exposure between day 1 and day 21 unresolved, in this example
Illustrative example of how exposure grows while a deviation remains unresolved — not data from a real site.
| Day | USD |
|---|---|
| 1 | $0.8M |
| 3 | $1.9M |
| 7 | $3.2M |
| 14 | $4.8M |
| 21 | $6.7M |
Closing the gap between detecting and resolving a problem is, itself, an operational KPI.
Argus Mine isn't a variance report. It's the system that connects plan, execution, and economics so every deviation ends in an action — and in recovered value.
Ground survey and continuous satellite monitoring (InSAR/SBAS + ICESat-2) cross design against actual execution on every AOI, without waiting for period close.
AI distinguishes operational cause (F1: mining outside design) from geological cause (F3: an over-promising block model) — and remembers whether it's a recurring pattern in that same area.
Every deviation is translated into NSR and NPV, separating the impact already realized from the purely temporal cost of executing late: how many days separate plan from execution, and what that delay cost.
The alert arrives with an action plan sized to the impact: priority, owner, and how much of that value is recoverable if acted on in time.
Every action is checked against the next period's real outcome — marking it "done" isn't enough; the system measures whether the value was actually recovered.
Every reconciliation is indexed for semantic recall — next time a similar pattern occurs, the system already knows whether the previous mitigation worked.
We don't sell time savings. Argus Mine translates every spatial deviation into economic impact, period by period, so the decision is made while it can still be corrected.
Monthly reconciliation is common industry practice. Argus Mine recalculates the period as soon as a new survey arrives: the cycle is set by the site's survey cadence, not by month-end close, and a drill-and-blast deviation can be corrected on the next shift.
We don't publish generic improvement percentages: they depend on each site, and each site is measured against its own baseline.
A simple estimate, not a promise: adjust your operation's parameters and see the order of magnitude of value that closing your reconciliation gap could represent.
Illustrative calculation based solely on the values you enter — not a financial projection or contractual commitment.
Modify the excavation boundary for the next period
Illustrative scenario with example figures to show the product flow — not real customer data.
This isn't a product hunch. Mining engineering literature has documented for years that reconciliation shouldn't stop at comparing tonnes and grades — and that delays in detecting losses and dilution have measurable consequences across the entire mine-to-mill chain.
Independent academic studies cited as industry context — not Argus Mine customer case studies.
Argus Mine is reconciliation software for metal mining — copper, gold and polymetallic operations, open pit and underground. It compares what was planned (mine design and block model) with what was actually executed (as-built surveys and satellite monitoring) and translates every deviation into tonnes, grade, NSR and NPV.
For the teams accountable for the gap between plan and reality: site management, mine planning, resource geology, survey, mine control, processing and finance. Every deviation is attributed to the stage of the process where it originated, so it gets investigated by whoever can fix it.
Three widely used reconciliation factors whose definitions vary between companies; Argus Mine declares its own. F1 (mine vs. plan) measures whether the design was mined as intended; F2 (plant vs. mine), whether what was mined reached the plant; and F3 (plant vs. plan), how well the block model predicts what is actually processed. This separates operational accountability from geological accountability.
Mine designs in DXF, as-built topographic surveys in DXF or GeoTIFF (for example, from drones) and the block model with grade and NSR per block. Optionally, grade control samples to refine grades and measured plant tonnage for an independent F2.
No. Argus Mine works on top of the designs and block model your planning and modelling software already produces. It does not estimate resources or classify reserves (JORC, NI 43-101); it provides the actual production evidence that classification needs to stand over time.
Every day a deviation goes undetected, unexplained, or unresolved, the value at risk keeps growing. Start by seeing it.
No commitment.