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Mintec has released Version 2.2 of its MineSight Torque (MSTorque) product. The program stores and manages drillhole, blasthole, and other sample data in a Microsoft SQL server database. It offers tools for filtering, importing, exporting, formatting, reporting and editing. MSTorque can be standardised for many users, while being customised to suit individual needs.

Mintec says that with the release of Version 2.2, composites can now be imported into MSTorque from all supported data sources – ODBC, CSV and SQL. Imported composites are saved as composite sets. Appending to existing imported composite sets is supported as well.

MSTorque stores data for composites that may not be available at import time, and allows three different ways of importing the data:
1. From and to: If the start and end depths of the composite interval are available, then the location of the composite interval is calculated from the geometry of the sample site.
2. Start and end location of composite interval: Start and end depth of the composite interval are calculated by projecting the location on the geometry of the sample site.
3. Midpoint and total composite length: Start and end depths, as well as location of the start and end points of the composite interval are calculated by projecting the locations on the geometry of the sample site.

All additional required information is then calculated from this data. The improved importing functions allow importing directly from CSV files (with various column separators and text qualifier options), and from SQL Server database files. A subset of total records from ODBC, CSV files and SQL Server can also be imported.