{"id":5533,"date":"2020-06-02T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/?p=5533"},"modified":"2020-06-02T19:14:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T23:14:03","slug":"neb-zurkic-a-career-consulting-with-mineplan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/neb-zurkic-a-career-consulting-with-mineplan\/","title":{"rendered":"Neb \u017durki\u0107: A career consulting with MinePlan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For 50 years, geologists and engineers worldwide have used Hexagon\u2019s MinePlan Software for design, modelling, scheduling and operations. For more than half that time, consultant geologist Neb \u017durki\u0107 has used MinePlan to help his clients solve their toughest challenges at the surface and below it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As Director of \u017durki\u0107 Mining Consultants, Neb rotates between his native Belgrade, Serbia and his company base in Melbourne, Australia, assisting clients in some of the world\u2019s biggest mines with deposit modelling, resource estimation, ore control and technical auditing. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a recent podcast interview, he shared how the software has changed during the last 27 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/828664033&amp;color=%230097ba&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"HxGN RADIO\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/hxgnradio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HxGN RADIO<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Neb \u017durki\u0107: A career consulting with MinePlan\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/hxgnradio\/neb-zurkic-a-career-consulting-with-mineplan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neb \u017durki\u0107: A career consulting with MinePlan<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Q: Tell us about \u017durki\u0107 Mining Consultants and the work you do for mines.<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nNZ: We\u2019re sort of a pretty small group, part of a larger loosely affiliated group of associates. The structure helps us keep the cost down for clients so we\u2019re accessible to even the smallest of exploration companies. We can do things from planning and managing drill programs right through feasibility studies, grade control, improving practises after the operations have started and things like that.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Q: Describe some of the bigger or more complex projects that you\u2019ve been involved with.<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nNZ: Outside of full-blown feasibility studies, most of the work we tend to do is fixing up underlying input data to use in the software. As we all know, most people are familiar with the GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) acronym. There isn\u2019t any software that can fix that so to get the most out of what we\u2019re doing and the software and the math and everything that we do, we spend a lot of time on fixing input data: sampling quality and all that sort of thing. The most notable example is that we added four million ounces to a resource estimate without even drilling the hole. The project was a big project to start with but adding that sort of quantum of ounces to any project is significant to the business.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Q: Tell us how the software has changed during 27 years.<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nNZ: I guess that establishes how old I am! I\u2019ve been using it ever since it was called Medsystems &#8211; back in the days when visualization was in VBM land and we used to generate wire frames in the old 670 executables. It was a pretty clunky system back then. It would fail 4 out of 5 times but unlike today when everybody has a wire frame of their ore body, back then it was rare, so you\u2019d persevere, and it was cool to have a wireframe back then. Then came MineSight in the mid 90\u2019s and that was revolutionary. Probably the closest thing I could compare it to was probably a decade after that where we first played with an iPhone. It was quite a big difference when MineSight came along.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5536\" style=\"width: 607px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/neb2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5536\" class=\" wp-image-5536\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/neb2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hgnminingblog.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/neb2.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hgnminingblog.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/neb2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hgnminingblog.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/neb2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hgnminingblog.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/neb2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snakes are a recurring feature of Neb\u2019s photo albums, especially when consulting in Indonesia.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Q: So, there are a lot of software solutions on the market. Why do you use MinePlan?<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nNZ: I started with it. I\u2019ve worked for mainstream consultancies and a large US-based gold company at one point. So, I\u2019ve seen most of your competitors. There are probably two or three that can compete. The rest don\u2019t compete and of those two or three maybe it\u2019s a comfort thing in the end. Support was a big thing. Support was always a big thing way back when it first appeared in Australia. So, support\u2019s probably one of the big things why I would use MinePlan.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Q: What improvements have you seen in the software?<\/em><\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nNZ: Probably the biggest one was just transitioning from a command-driven, file-based system, into a windows-based system. Just getting everything into one spot and doing everything in one area. For example, right at this moment I\u2019m doing some pretty high-end geo stats. Looking at some of the advanced geo statistics and running some conditional simulations for a nickel laterite. That, I had to do previously using some other piece of software and now that\u2019s all integrated, which helps a lot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/neb3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5538 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/neb3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hgnminingblog.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/neb3.jpg 893w, https:\/\/hgnminingblog.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/neb3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hgnminingblog.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/neb3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hgnminingblog.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/neb3-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hgnminingblog.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/neb3-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 50 years, geologists and engineers worldwide have used Hexagon\u2019s MinePlan Software for design, modelling, scheduling and operations. For more than half that time, consultant geologist Neb \u017durki\u0107 has used MinePlan to help his clients solve their toughest challenges at the surface and below it. As Director of \u017durki\u0107 Mining Consultants, Neb rotates between his<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/neb-zurkic-a-career-consulting-with-mineplan\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":5534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[662],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-community"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Neb \u017durki\u0107: A career consulting with MinePlan - Hexagon - Mining Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/neb-zurkic-a-career-consulting-with-mineplan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Neb \u017durki\u0107: A career consulting with MinePlan - Hexagon - Mining Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For 50 years, geologists and engineers worldwide have used Hexagon\u2019s MinePlan Software for design, modelling, scheduling and operations. For more than half that time, consultant geologist Neb \u017durki\u0107 has used MinePlan to help his clients solve their toughest challenges at the surface and below it. As Director of \u017durki\u0107 Mining Consultants, Neb rotates between hisRead More\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/neb-zurkic-a-career-consulting-with-mineplan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Hexagon - Mining Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-02T16:00:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-06-02T23:14:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/neb1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Neville Judd\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Neville Judd\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/neb-zurkic-a-career-consulting-with-mineplan\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/neb-zurkic-a-career-consulting-with-mineplan\/\",\"name\":\"Neb \u017durki\u0107: A career consulting with MinePlan - Hexagon - Mining Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-02T16:00:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-06-02T23:14:03+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/f2e58f1da3a0995be147cef04af207e4\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/neb-zurkic-a-career-consulting-with-mineplan\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/neb-zurkic-a-career-consulting-with-mineplan\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/neb-zurkic-a-career-consulting-with-mineplan\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Neb \u017durki\u0107: A career consulting with MinePlan\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Hexagon - Mining Blog\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/f2e58f1da3a0995be147cef04af207e4\",\"name\":\"Neville Judd\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Nev_300x400-150x150.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Nev_300x400-150x150.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Neville Judd\"},\"description\":\"Neville Judd was a journalist for 25 years before becoming manager of content and communications for Hexagon\u2019s Mining division. He is the linchpin for the company\u2019s life-of-mine narrative, sharing stories of customer partnerships and digital transformation.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/author\/neville-judd\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Neb \u017durki\u0107: A career consulting with MinePlan - Hexagon - Mining Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/neb-zurkic-a-career-consulting-with-mineplan\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Neb \u017durki\u0107: A career consulting with MinePlan - Hexagon - Mining Blog","og_description":"For 50 years, geologists and engineers worldwide have used Hexagon\u2019s MinePlan Software for design, modelling, scheduling and operations. For more than half that time, consultant geologist Neb \u017durki\u0107 has used MinePlan to help his clients solve their toughest challenges at the surface and below it. As Director of \u017durki\u0107 Mining Consultants, Neb rotates between hisRead More","og_url":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/neb-zurkic-a-career-consulting-with-mineplan\/","og_site_name":"Hexagon - Mining Blog","article_published_time":"2020-06-02T16:00:58+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-06-02T23:14:03+00:00","og_image":[{"width":800,"height":600,"url":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/neb1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Neville Judd","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Neville Judd","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/neb-zurkic-a-career-consulting-with-mineplan\/","url":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/neb-zurkic-a-career-consulting-with-mineplan\/","name":"Neb \u017durki\u0107: A career consulting with MinePlan - Hexagon - Mining Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2020-06-02T16:00:58+00:00","dateModified":"2020-06-02T23:14:03+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/f2e58f1da3a0995be147cef04af207e4"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/neb-zurkic-a-career-consulting-with-mineplan\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/neb-zurkic-a-career-consulting-with-mineplan\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/neb-zurkic-a-career-consulting-with-mineplan\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Neb \u017durki\u0107: A career consulting with MinePlan"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/","name":"Hexagon - Mining Blog","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/f2e58f1da3a0995be147cef04af207e4","name":"Neville Judd","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Nev_300x400-150x150.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Nev_300x400-150x150.jpg","caption":"Neville Judd"},"description":"Neville Judd was a journalist for 25 years before becoming manager of content and communications for Hexagon\u2019s Mining division. He is the linchpin for the company\u2019s life-of-mine narrative, sharing stories of customer partnerships and digital transformation.","url":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/author\/neville-judd\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hexagonmining.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}