Following this, events will be held throughout the company's global offices, including Russia, North America, Indonesia, the UK and South Africa.

The company said Geobank 2017 delivers improved usability, functionality and performance, with a variety of user benefits relevant to both exploration and mining operations.

Commenting on the upcoming release, MICROMINE's product strategy manager, Mark Gabbitus, said: "Geobank 2017 is the culmination of a lot of hard work by the product team recently to get new features, improved user experience and client requests out to all our clients, we believe that the new Sample Tracker functionality is going to be a real winner."

Sample Tracker enables batch loading of lab data, essential at operations with onsite labs, as well as several automated features designed to reduce configuration and management for the database administrators.

The new Excel lab file importer is set to help clients in Russia, an emerging market for MICROMINE's Geobank, Micromine and Pitram solutions. "This is something our Russian clients have asked for and we have delivered" said Gabbitus. "The labs over there traditionally provide sites with analysis results in multi tab excel spread sheets. In the past, this required the database administrator to export the data to CSV and then import. Now it's set and forget."