Amidst the downward trend in coal prices, the company will, of course, carry out efficiency measures on all sectors, including mine planning by using mine scheduling software and by re-sequencing mining blocks. SPRY is mine scheduling software that is affordable, but powerful enough to handle the re-sequencing of mining blocks quickly and easily. SPRY can also display line distances in its scheduling, which allows mine engineers to do sequencing engineering to reduce one of the biggest contributors to mining cost, namely the overburden (OB) distance.