Vulcan
About Vulcan
Vulcan is Maptek's flagship product and one of the most widely used mining software platforms globally, with a heritage dating to the early 1980s as the world's first true 3D mining software. It provides a comprehensive 3D visualization environment for managing, validating, and transforming geological data into geological models, mine designs, and operational plans across open pit and underground operations.
Vulcan's modular architecture includes a core platform with specialized add-ons. The Geology & Estimation add-on provides drillhole management, lithological/geophysical data validation, integrated stratigraphic and implicit block modelling, and grade estimation (Inverse Distance, Simple Kriging, Ordinary Kriging, Indicator Kriging, and Indicator Simulation), along with variogram modelling and analysis tools. Vulcan is the core environment into which GeologyCore and DomainMCF plug, forming Maptek's integrated geology workflow.
Vulcan's differentiators include its long 3D heritage, modular architecture allowing mines to license only what they need, and integration with Maptek's broader hardware/software ecosystem (laser scanners, BlastLogic, Evolution scheduling, Sentry monitoring). It competes head-to-head with Datamine Studio RM, Seequent Leapfrog, GEOVIA Surpac, and Hexagon MinePlan.
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