Faena — Mining-Analytics Hub
A single open launcher that catalogues a growing set of independent, in-browser mining-analytics tools across the value chain — exploration → drill & blast → load/haul → comminution → processing → tailings → asset health → economics. Each tool is its own documented product on a named real dataset or a validated synthetic. Three live today, seven in active development, and more mapped on a visible roadmap.
Business Context
A portfolio of analytics tools is only useful if you can find the right one and trust its status. Faena is the map: it groups the tools by where they sit in the productive cycle and by what kind of method they are, and it is explicit about maturity — so a visitor sees at a glance the few that are production-quality today versus the many that are in progress or planned, without any tool overselling itself.
Strategic Value
Faena turns a scattered set of mining-analytics experiments into one coherent, honest catalogue with a visible lifecycle. The launcher pattern keeps every tool independent (its own repo, subdomain, data and docs) while giving the whole a shared front door and a truthful roadmap — planned, building, live — that never claims more than what actually ships. It is the organizing surface that lets the collection grow tool by tool without losing the thread or the honesty.
The Challenge
Mining analytics spans the whole value chain — geology, drill & blast, haulage, comminution, flotation, tailings, asset health, economics — and useful tools for it tend to be one-off notebooks or heavyweight platforms. There was no single, honest place to see the pieces as one catalogue: what exists and works today, what is being built, and what is still just a plan.
Our Approach
Faena is a static launcher, not an app: a fast, crawlable index that lists each tool and links out to its own repo and subdomain — it never bundles or proxies the apps. It is fully data-driven from a registry: two organizing axes (value-chain stage as swimlanes, solution-type as a colour facet) and a three-state lifecycle — planned → building → live — so the roadmap is visible and honest by construction. Adding a tool is a data edit. Built with Astro (ships almost no JavaScript), bilingual EN/ES, light/dark, deployed to GitHub Pages.
Key Performance Indicators
| KPI | Baseline | Result | Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finding the right tool | Scattered notebooks / repos | One launcher, indexed by value-chain stage + solution type | The whole collection is navigable at a glance |
| Honest maturity | "N apps" with no status | A visible lifecycle: planned → building → live | You see what actually ships vs what is in progress |
Architecture
faena hub
One launcher, many tools
Faena is the open hub for a growing family of independent, in-browser mining-analytics tools. It is not an app itself — it is a fast static index that catalogues each tool across the value chain (exploration → drill & blast → load/haul → comminution → processing → tailings → asset health → economics) and links out to its own repo and subdomain. It never bundles or proxies the apps. Live at faena.fasl-work.com.
Honest by construction
Every tile carries a lifecycle status, so the catalogue tells the truth about maturity: 3 live today (ChargeCascade, RotorVitals, CutoffGrade Studio), 7 in active development, and ~29 more mapped on the roadmap — tiles advance planned → building → live as each one actually ships. “Live” here means brought to the quality bar, not merely deployed. There is no “39 mining apps” claim; there is a small set that works today and a visible plan for the rest.
How it is organized
Two axes: value-chain stage as swimlanes and solution-type (computer vision, 3D physics, optimization/OR, condition monitoring, geospatial, forecasting) as a colour facet you can filter. The whole site is data-driven from a registry — adding a tool is a data edit — and built with Astro for a static, crawlable, near-zero-JS surface, bilingual EN/ES with a light/dark theme.
Technology Stack
Visual assets for this project are not publicly available.