Systems built to create and protect value
We install Value Mining Systems — turning business strategy into uncertainty-aware decision policies, operating systems, and governed value.
Uncertainty is not noise. It is unpriced risk, unseen opportunity, and unmanaged value.
Mining companies rarely fail for lack of data. They fail when technical uncertainty remains unmanaged, propagating through decisions and actions until it becomes lost value.
The Hidden Flow
Beneath every business plan runs a hidden flow of unquantified uncertainty and misplaced confidence. Value is lost when that flow is left unmanaged.
Where the hidden flows emerges..
Financial exposure is hidden upstream.
When technical uncertainty is approximated instead of propagated, capital decisions inherit risks that were never priced. What looks like a business case may already contain ungoverned exposure across assets, projects and portfolios.
Project confidence is overstated.
When resources, reserves, modifying factors and drilling policies are not tied to business expectations, projects advance with confidence that may not match the risk they carry. Uncertainty is transferred forward instead of being made governable.
Systematic deviations repeat year after year.
Production plans absorb uncertainty that was never fully characterized. Deviations linked to resources, reserves, modifying factors, stockpiles, plant feed and material behaviour reappear year after year as lost value, rework and operational instability.
Three decision spaces. One architecture to create and protect value.
From capital decisions to robust projects to value captured in production.
Components for connected decisions under uncertainty
Science + Mining Fundamentals
Installed in Tier-1 companies.
Strategic mine-planning under uncertainty
+18% NPV
+US$4.4B
Value uplift achieved without a single additional drillhole in a Tier-1 mining context.
Information acquisition
12.9× return
Value-of-information optimisation showing returns of up to 12.9× on testing investment.
Short-term mine planning
+5%
Additional value captured in short-term mine planning by making tactical decisions under uncertainty.
VMS aligns decisions with business expectations
to create & protect value.
VMS + DMS
Two companies. One in Chile. One in Australia.
ROCK-TO-MARKET STRATEGY.
UNDER TECHNICAL AND COMMERCIAL UNCERTAINTY.
Uncertainty-to-decision systems
VMS · Value Mining Systems
VMS turns technical uncertainty into governed decisions across capital, project development and production value capture.
- CCD — Corporate capital decisions under uncertainty.
- RPD — Robust project development with fewer surprises.
- VCP — Production value creation and protection every shift.
- S³ · DAP · RDE — Core engines for futures, information and reserve decisions.
Enterprise-scale Optimisation system
DMS · Decision Matrix Systems
DMS evaluates engineering, infrastructure and commercial alternatives to find the best path from mine to market under real constraints.
- SPP Optimiser — Strategic production planning.
- LEADLINE — Mine-to-market placement.
- CHARTER — Early-stage project definition.
- DMS Engine — Enterprise-scale LP/MIP optimisation across constraints and commercial conditions.
VMS + DMS connect technical uncertainty with enterprise-scale decision optimisation.
Built by those who have been in the room.
Three legacies converge here — mining science, production-grade technology, and full mine-to-market strategy.
Applied Science and Mining Fundamentals
GeoInnova / GNV
GeoInnova brings more than 20 years of mining innovation and asset-level experience.
Founded by Rodrigo Riquelme and Alejandro Cáceres, GNV has worked across complex, recurring and transversal mining problems for major mining companies.
With a multidisciplinary team of more than 40 professionals, GNV has built its reputation by installing science where mining decisions are actually made — across resources, reserves, geometallurgy, planning, reconciliation, production support and value risk.
That repeated exposure to real assets shaped the scientific foundations behind VMS: the FVG Framework, the SRRF — Stochastic Resource-to-Reserve Framework, and information acquisition policies for decisions under uncertainty.
Rodrigo Riquelme · Alejandro Cáceres
The technology and Data Systems
Engineering that survives production
Eduardo Rojas brings the bridge between geology, data systems and enterprise software.
BSc Geology and MSc, Universidad de Chile.
A geologist turned systems architect, he was Innovation & Development Manager at Golder more than 20 years ago, building data and decision-system capabilities for technical industries.
His work later extended through EarthSoft, EQuIS Collect, Microsoft Cloud & AI and large-scale operational platforms. His role in VMS is to turn scientific frameworks into systems that can run, scale and survive production.
Eduardo Rojas
The full strategy AND MARKET INTELLIGENCE
Decision Matrix Systems / DMS
DMS contributes the mine-to-market strategy layer.
Created by José Cáceres and Eduardo Cáceres, DMS was built from first principles and deep operational understanding.
Its optimisation engine was born in real mining operations, hardened through Tier-1 deployments, and adopted in major strategic planning environments.
DMS brings executive mine-planning, operational and commercial strategy experience — connecting pits, block caves, infrastructure, product strategy, market alternatives and capital allocation into better decisions.
José Cáceres · Eduardo Cáceres
Three legacies. Two systems. One decision architecture.
Leadership Team
People behind the systems.
ALEJANDRO CÁCERES
Founder & CEO · VMS
Creator of the FVG Framework and the SRRF — Stochastic Resource-to-Reserve Framework. MSc Geology, U. de Chile · MSc Metals & Energy Finance, Imperial College London · PhD(c) Mining Engineering · Qualified Person / MAusIMM. 20+ years leading innovation at GeoInnova, connecting resource uncertainty, geo-information value, reserves risk and enterprise decision systems.
EDUARDO ROJAS
Founder & CTO · VMS
Geologist and systems architect. Creator of DB-architecture Micronet , BSc, MSc Geology, U. de Chile. Former Innovation & Development Manager at Golder more than 20 years ago, where he built data and decision-system capabilities for technical industries. Later led and contributed to global-scale platforms across EarthSoft, EQuIS Collect, Microsoft Cloud & AI. Bridges rock, data and code.
RODRIGO RIQUELME
Founder & COO · VMS
Co-founder of GeoInnova and senior mining executive with deep asset-level experience across resource estimation, project development, operational support and technical governance. MSc Mining Engineering, Universidad de Chile · MSc Applied Economics, Georgetown University · MSc Geostatistics, ParisTech · QP / MAusIMM. Has led multidisciplinary teams across complex mining problems in Chile and internationally.
JOSÉ CÁCERES
Founder & CEO · DMS — Strategic Partner
Mining Engineer, U. de Chile · MSc and PhD in mine planning and economics, Queen’s University. Executive mining leader and creator of the DMS optimisation approach. Former General Manager and senior strategic planning executive with deep exposure to large-scale mining operations. Has led mine-to-market optimisation decisions connecting pits, block caves, infrastructure, products, markets and capital allocation.
EDUARDO CÁCERES
Founder & COO · DMS
Cross-disciplinary mining strategist with PhB Honours, Australian National University. Co-creator and operational partner behind the DMS optimisation approach, with field and market experience across Asia-Pacific, including China and Papua New Guinea. Connects mine-planning logic, product strategy, commercial execution and the demand-side view of mining decisions.
ALEJANDRO CÁCERES
Founder & CEO · VMS
Creator of the FVG Framework and the SRRF — Stochastic Resource-to-Reserve Framework. MSc Geology, U. de Chile · MSc Metals & Energy Finance, Imperial College London · PhD(c) Mining Engineering · QP / MAusIMM. 20+ years leading innovation at GeoInnova, connecting resource uncertainty, geo-information value, reserves risk and enterprise decision systems.
EDUARDO ROJAS
Founder & CTO · VMS
Geologist and systems architect. Creator of DB-architecture Micronet BSc Geology and MSc, U. de Chile. Former Innovation & Development Manager at Golder more than 20 years ago, where he built data and decision-system capabilities for technical industries. Later led and contributed to global-scale platforms across EarthSoft, EQuIS Collect, Microsoft Cloud & AI. Bridges rock, data and code.
RODRIGO RIQUELME
Founder & COO · VMS
Founder of GeoInnova and senior mining executive with deep asset-level experience across resource estimation, project development, operational support and technical governance. MSc Mining Engineering, U. de Chile · MSc Applied Economics, Georgetown University · MSc Geostatistics, Paris-Tech · QP / MAusIMM. Has led multidisciplinary teams across complex mining problems in Chile and internationally.
JOSÉ CÁCERES
Founder & CEO · DMS — Strategic Partner
Mining Engineer, Universidad de Chile · MSc and PhD in mine planning and economics, Queen’s University. Executive mining leader and creator of the DMS optimisation approach. Former General Manager and senior strategic planning executive with deep exposure to large-scale mining operations. Has led mine-to-market optimisation decisions connecting pits, block caves, infrastructure, products, markets and capital allocation.
EDUARDO CÁCERES
Founder & COO · DMS
Cross-disciplinary mining strategist with PhB Honours, Australian National University. Co-creator and operational partner behind the DMS optimisation approach, with field and market experience across Asia-Pacific, including China and Papua New Guinea. Connects mine-planning logic, product strategy, commercial execution and the demand-side view of mining decisions.
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