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  Gemcom Overview

  Gemcom Overview

The Company

• The leading provider of mining productivity solutions

• 260 employees in 20 locations around the world

• In business since 1985

• Public company listed on TSX (GCM)

• Strong financial performance

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Where there’s mining, you’ll find Gemcom

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Some of our clients

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Reporting requirements

Throughput increase Market Consolidation

Industry Dynamics

Increased Demand for Metals

Fewer suppliers are generating a largerProportion of the output.

These larger and more complex organizations have increasinglycomplex management challenges.

Technical mining environments varyby commodity, mine type, locationand scale – no single software cansupport all needs.

Major mining companies are listed on multiple exchanges and are subject to reporting requirements in multiple jurisdictions.

Sarbanes Oxley

GAAP IASB

NI 43-101

JORC/VALMIN/SAMREC

China consumes more base metals than the USA.

Accomplish more with fewer resources:

2010 – 60% of geoscientists in Canada 65 years old

3600 – 7000 positions available in mining each year for the next ten years

The Staffing Shortage

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ProductionManagementProduction

ManagementProductionSchedulingProductionScheduling

Blending

Reconciliation

Stockpile Management

Simulation

Surface modelling

Block Modelling 2D and 3D Planning Production Scheduler

Strategic MinePlanning

PlanningPlanningResourceEvaluationResourceEvaluationExplorationExploration

Grade Control

Reporting BenchmarkingAnalysis

Gemcom Platform

Volumetrics Blasthole Design

Pit Design Survey

Geostatistics

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Mineral Resource Management

Enable Short Term Variability Control – Daily production scheduling to meet monthly grade targets.

Mine to Plan – Through continuous tracking of Design vs. Actual

Improve Quality Control through ongoing Mine-Mill Reconciliation

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Monitor production cost against material inventory (stockpiles, gold in process and finished)

Tracking stockpile inventories Continuously capturing production costs. Detailed activity-based costing analysis by capturing activity data from mine to mill.

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Continuous Improvement Benchmarking –Capture and standardize data for benchmarking across the Company

Six Sigma – Provide continuous flow of data to help managers and teams Identify Problems, Monitor Changes, and Track Results of Process Improvements

Implement Management by Key Performance Indicators. Put role-specific KPI Scorecards on every desktop

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Financial ManagementContinuously monitor operating

costs and analyze cost drivers

Enable Activity-Based Costing

Provide Production Audit Trail from source data system to corporate shareholders reporting

Enable best practice internal controls for reserve and production reporting across the enterprise.

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  Gemcom OverviewERP Systems

GIS Systems

ShovelPositioning

TruckDispatch

Drilling

Mine Planning

OreControl

LOMOptimization

GeologicalModel

Survey

Schedule Mine Design

ContractorsLaboratory

Stockpiles

Equipment Systems

Weighbridge

Drilling

Crusher

Plant Production

Process Control

Process Historian

Downtime Recording

Manual Entry

Information Spaghetti?

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InSiteData

Warehouse

InSiteOLAP Cube

InSite Reports Server

WorkspacesReports

Scorecards MS Office Integration

Web Analytics Mine Planning Integration

InSite Web Portal

InSiteInfoMapper

Disparate Data Sources

InSiteOperational

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Electronic Data CaptureElectronic Data Capture

Mine and Mill

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Resident Manager

Pit Manager Plant ManagerMaintenance

ManagerChief Geologist

Mine Accountant

Chief Financial Officer

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Mine Mine SiteSite

InSite Demonstration Scenario - Roles