GEOVIA Minex is the whole practice, on purpose
There are consultancies that will take on any mining software. We do one thing: keep coal and stratified-deposit teams productive in GEOVIA Minex, through a transition the vendor has already announced.
Software outlives the people who understood it
That is the failure we keep being called in to fix. Not a bad purchase — a good one that nobody documented.
A coal operation buys Minex because nothing else models a splitting seam or a wash curve as well. The first model gets built by one geologist who learns the software properly. It works. Monthly reporting settles into a rhythm only that person fully understands.
Then they leave.
What remains is a set of files nobody can rebuild, a reserve statement nobody can trace back to a borehole, and a licence renewal that suddenly looks expensive because half the seats are idle. The software was never the problem. The absence of a second, third and fourth person who could do the work — that was the problem.
Now add the platform question. Dassault Systèmes has moved Minex onto a Continued Support footing, describing the programme as supporting teams “as Minex full support concludes.” Your models do not expire when a support tier does. But the window to get them documented, scripted and understood by more than one person is not indefinite.
MinexCoal is a service of ACALA
PT Acala Genesa Sumberdaya trades as ACALA: an Indonesian geology and mining practice that supplies and supports the GEOVIA platform and does the mine planning work that sits on top of it. MinexCoal is the part of that practice built specifically around coal and stratified deposits.
An official Dassault Systèmes partner
ACALA supplies GEOVIA through proper channels — Surpac, Whittle, MineSched, Minex and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. For you that means the licence, the migration and the training come from one accountable party rather than three that can point at each other.
A working consultancy, not only a supplier
Exploration, geological modelling, resource estimation, open pit and underground design, scheduling, mineral asset valuation and due diligence. The people who train your team on Minex are the people who use it on live projects.
Certified, and audited on it
ISO 9001:2015 for quality management and ISO 14001:2015 for environmental management. Procurement and vendor-onboarding teams ask for both; having them means your purchasing process does not stall on a questionnaire.
Rooted in Indonesia
Head office in South Jakarta, working across all three Indonesian time zones — on site and remote. Every engagement is staffed and run from here, and we take no work we cannot staff properly.
Head office: South Quarter Tower A, 18th Floor, Unit G&F, Jl. R.A. Kartini Kav 8, Cilandak Barat, Jakarta Selatan 12430, Indonesia · +62 852-1234-3631 · acala.co.id
Four commitments we will not trade away
Every consultancy claims to be honest. These are the specific places where honesty costs us money, and we hold them anyway.
We tell you when you do not need us
If the official Continued Support workshop covers what your team needs, we will say so and tell you which sessions to attend. If your existing setup is sound, the honest audit finding is “change nothing”. A recommendation we cannot defend is worth less than the fee attached to it.
We scope to what your team opens
Being an official Dassault Systèmes partner means we can supply the licence through proper channels. It does not mean we scope one bigger than your usage. When we size a licence we size it against what your geologists actually open — which more often means fewer seats, not more.
We work to make ourselves unnecessary
Every engagement ends with written procedures, scripted workflows and people who can run them. Retained support exists for model reviews and staff turnover, not to keep you dependent. If you need us less each year, the work was done right.
We train on your data, not a demo
Sample-dataset training produces people who can pass an exercise. Your seams split where they split, your faults behave the way they behave. We teach on your own project wherever the commercial terms allow, and build an anonymised twin when they do not.
A vendor partner, and clear about what that means
MinexCoal is a service of ACALA, an Official Partner of Dassault Systèmes. That relationship lets us supply and support GEOVIA licences through proper channels. It does not make us Dassault Systèmes. We do not publish, develop or control GEOVIA Minex, and we cannot vary its licence terms, warranties, support commitments or roadmap.
A partner badge is a supply channel, not a promise about the product. The commitments that bind Dassault Systèmes are the ones in their own agreement with you.
Where we advise on scope we act on your instructions. Where we supply a licence we act as the vendor’s partner. We will always tell you which of the two we are doing. Full detail in our Disclaimer.
Tell us what your team cannot rebuild
That question usually finds the real problem faster than a capability checklist does. A first conversation costs nothing and often ends with us telling you the fix is smaller than you feared.