2022 User Conference Highlights for the Mining Community
It was great to see everyone in San Diego and meet personally with members of the Mining Community. A summary of activities at the conference can be found c/o the Mining Industry UC Guide
Throughout the week it was fantastic to hear and see the work being done by our customers to solve a wide variety of business challenges and experience the fluid exchange of ideas and sharing of knowledge. We are confident this will filter back to enhance their respective geospatial approaches and/or strategies, as it applies to their business requirements and specific workflows.
Here’s a quick summary of some of the Mining Track highlights:
User Presentations
Freeport’s Grasberg Mine The Indonesia based team (Prayoga Sagita and Arif Susanto) presented a remarkable mapping project of noise monitoring inside the (copper) ore processing mill, complete with sophisticated real-time dashboards to monitor and improve worker safety.
Liberty/Pilot Gold USA - Gerald Heston described the extensive program of operational and reclamation work activities monitored at the Goldstrike project in SW Utah and the data sharing environment with the BLM and Utah DOGM from whom they have been given the Environmental Excellence Award in April of this year.
Luck Stone – Patrick Hess described the GIS journey at Luckstone from initially the faxing of physical paper maps with notes and sharpie markups through a lightweight ArcGIS desktop (ArcMap) deployment, to the enhanced power of ArcGIS Pro and leverage of ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Server capabilities, Patrick is looking forward to an enterprise scale deployment for the future.
Integrated Precision Systems – Janaki Gattu (and Hari Yeruva) described the careful balancing act between the growing need for construction sand in the face of increasing environment protection in India.
Wyoming DEQ’s (Mila Brown) and Brierly Associates (Harry Plendl) – discussed the effort to mitigate subsidence from WY’s Abandoned Mine Lands project using a digital enterprise approach, resulting in considerably improved data, logistics and reporting.
SAG Awards
Congratulations to the Mining related recipients of the 2022 Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Awards.
- Martin Marietta Materials, US SAG Award
- Vale S.A., Brazil – Brazilian SAG Award
- Antofagasta Minerals - Chile SAG Award
- Geological Survey of Ethiopia – Ethiopean SAG Award
Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting
Trends and Technology in Mining: A Community-Based Discussion
For this year’s SIG we started with high level ‘lightning talks’ from three of Esri’s partners; Mike Baumgartner of Trimble Land, Anthony Walker of Cyient, and John Shippick of Datamine. They touched on key updates in their respective technologies and services, then took questions from the audience.
Following this we tabled the current state and desire to re-invigorate the Mining User Group (MUG) and took the opportunity to have Brian Boulmay share his experience (~20 years) of working and chairing the Petroleum User Group (PUG) and what could we maybe leverage across to the MUG. This included and emphasized the critical need for volunteers from our industry customers… and I am really pleased to say that I have had four people reach out since to express their interest in potentially getting involved and/or assisting with a local ‘chapter’ or meeting in their respective cities which is fantastic.
Socials
The mining community had the opportunity to convene socially twice, once in an early bird mining social at the Rocking Baja Lobster in the downtown Gaslamp district and another at an Energy and Mining Social held on the Marriot Coronado Terrace. There was great food and music, and an opportunity to network with industry peers on a personal level to share stories, ask questions, or simply catch up.
Esri Mining Communities
Stay connected with the Esri Mining Community all year long!
- Twitter: @EsriMining
Sponsors
With special thanks to our sponsors who contributed to our socials and SIG and for those users that stepped up to provide insightful presentations. Your contributions enhanced the quality of our mining track and was received with gratitude and appreciation.
Map Gallery Winners
See the beautiful and innovative maps submitted by our Mining community to the User Conference.
Geological Survey of Ethiopa (GSE) *Award Winner