The Total Study Platform — Real-Time, Secure Client Access to Every Part of the Study
Most consultants hand over a PDF and a spreadsheet at the end. IMC gives clients live, real-time access to the running study — to run their own optimisations, cost runs, financial models, block-model work and AI analysis — inside a secure, isolated sandbox.
Ask what you actually receive at the end of a typical study and the answer is a PDF and a spreadsheet — a static snapshot of someone else’s work. IMC delivers something fundamentally different: live, real-time access to the running study itself, through the MiningIQ platform, inside a secure sandbox that is isolated from the outside world. To our knowledge, no other mining consultancy gives clients this depth of direct, self-service access to their own live study.
Run it yourself — in real time
Authorised client users don’t wait for the next revision. Inside the sandbox they can:
- Run their own optimisations — pseudo-flow (HPF) pit shells and scenarios.
- Run cost runs against the zero-based MineCost model.
- Run financial models — full three-statement scenarios and sensitivities.
- Manipulate the block model — reblock, re-domain, transform, re-flag.
- Ask AI of the full dataset — query the entire study corpus in natural language.
Secure and isolated by design
The sandbox is isolated per client and per project. The AI is not a shared model trained on your data: each client and each project is indexed into its own dedicated, isolated vector store, so your data is never co-mingled with anyone else’s and is never used to train shared models.
World-class secure file transfer
Study data moves under genuinely best-in-class protection. Files are encrypted client-side, end-to-end, with AES-256-GCM; keys are derived with PBKDF2 (256-bit, 600,000 iterations); each recipient gets their own wrapped file key; integrity is verified with SHA-256; and access is governed by policy, authorisation and expiry controls. There is no admin recovery key — a true zero-knowledge design where only the intended parties can read the data.
A project-focused board
Every project carries its own task board — a familiar, Trello-style workflow with per-board membership and permission levels — so actions, owners and status live alongside the data, not in a separate email thread.
A georeferenced Design Studio
The Design Studio renders the block model, pit shells, design strings and haul-road network in an interactive 3D viewer, with robust handling of rotated models and conversion between UTM (world) and mine-grid coordinates, and a satellite/basemap overlay for real-world context.
Why it matters
For an ITR or a financing study, this is the ultimate expression of the glass box: the client (and any reviewer) can interrogate, re-run and audit the live study directly, rather than taking a static document on trust. (See also One Hood, Full Visibility.)
Frequently Asked Questions
Can clients really run their own optimisations and models?
Yes. Authorised users can run pseudo-flow optimisations, cost runs, financial-model scenarios and block-model manipulation directly in the platform, and query the full dataset with AI — in real time.
Is my data secure and isolated?
Yes. The sandbox is isolated per client and per project, the AI uses a dedicated vector store per client/project (never a shared model), and files are encrypted client-side end-to-end with AES-256-GCM under a zero-knowledge design with no admin recovery key.
How secure is the file transfer?
Client-side AES-256-GCM encryption, PBKDF2 (256-bit, 600,000 iterations), per-recipient wrapped keys, SHA-256 integrity, and policy/authorisation/expiry controls — a genuine zero-knowledge design.
Do you handle rotated models and mine-grid coordinates?
Yes. The Design Studio handles rotated models and converts between UTM/world and mine-grid coordinates, with a satellite/basemap overlay for visualisation.