Mine Source Configuration

A mine location is a source stock location. Material can only be moved off this location. It is within a mine location that the lowest level, a mine source, is created. Nothing is moved onto a mine source; it is considered to be the starting point of all transactions, and defines the quality and tonnage that will be moved from this point through the supply chain. It is on a mine source that the first details about the survey of the mine or the input of material into the supply chain are created.

Mine locations and mine sources are created after the business areas have been defined.

Mine Source Contributors

Mine sources in the supply chain can be a contributor source that contributes to a material supply.

If mine sources are modelled, they are the source location for most contributor groups.

After a contributor group has been configured, it can be assigned to a mine source and tracked through the supply chain from the mine to the customers.

Contributor Filtering

If mining areas, blocks or polygons are set up as contributor groups, the number of contributors within these groups can often number in the thousands or more. This makes contributor charts difficult to view and interpret and editing of contributor information becomes very inefficient.

Dynamic contributor filtering and cut-off functionality removes contributors with zero or very small contributions from the various contributor views associated with stockpiles, trains, trucks, barges and shipments. It also simplifies the editing of contributor data.