MineSight has an excellent tool for the design of operational pits, mine plans, piles, among others. In today's Tips & Tricks, we'll cover the latest features built into the MineSight Pit Expansion Tool. From version 9.50 of MineSight 3D, in Pit Expansion it is possible to generate the reserve report in real time, export surfaces, pit solids or feeds, bench midlines, ramp center lines for geometric objects and also save the drawing history, and use it after restarting the tool. Reservations With this new option, it is possible to generate reservation reports in real time for each bench created, for which the user must only indicate a MineSight Reserve reservation logic file and choose the desired option. The calculation of reservations will be carried out after each…
One of the advantages of MineSight, which contains fully integrated tools, is being able to optimize it more and more to make your day-to-day tasks easier! Now, starting with version 8.90, MineSight Schedule Optimizer (MSSO) has a new item integrated with MineSight 3D in its menu: the Digline tab. Thus, you can add areas for level cut groups and diglines to predefined areas, relocate diglines to alternate areas, change their sequence, and easily locate Groups, Diglines and Direction directly in MSSO by interacting on the MineSight 3D canvas. These new options in the MSSO allow for greater agility and flexibility in adjusting your sequencing. Mining direction is a key configuration for a good sequencing result and for that, the user can intuitively add, edit, remove, locate and delete groups and diglines always integrated into MineSight 3D. In addition to the previous options, you can view Mining Area, Phase, Level, Name, Digline, Direction and Partition from…
In this edition of Tips & Tricks we'll show you how easy it is to insert vertical sections interpreted and done the traditional way (pen and paper) into MineSight to guide your geological modeling. So, get to work! First, let's take as an example a vertical section not orthogonal to the N/S and E/W axes. The example will be performed in the section highlighted in red in the image below. For this example, MineSight Plot is used to first print the section with the holes and descriptions, topography and the grid of axes for later georeferencing. So the section is interpreted by hand, and then the steps below are followed. Note that you need to have in the handmade section, the grid of Z axes and North or East, depending on which reader chooses to work. In this case we have both axes, but it was chosen…
MSEP Charting (MSEPc) is a powerful tool for analyzing data generated with MSOPIT (Design Pit) and MSVALP (Reserves and Schedules). MSEPc plots a wide variety of 2D and 3D tables and graphs from SUM, SCH, and RES files. The graphics already have standard settings, which facilitates their creation, and can also be customized to suit the needs of each project. MSEPc is accessible from the MineSight menu under MSEP > Charting. In addition to the importance of generating graphs with different parameters, it is also important that the user has an integrated tool capable of joining results from several files, facilitating the interpretation and analysis of the data, thus understanding the behavior of the project. The graph below is an example of the economic effects of changing the type of sequencing adopted. THE…
MinePlan presents a new tool from the MinePlan Grade Control Geo suite, within the HxGN MinePlan Axis product: the Digblock Optimizer (DBO)! Quality control (Grade Control) is essential to guarantee success in the short term, detailing materials and their respective destinations to achieve the production target. Bad Grade Control practices result in improper or inadequate optimization of your cut design. Which causes a lot of dilution or even erroneous classification as to which destination will proceed. The MPAxis-DBO generates economically optimized cuts for your mine's quality control. In several open pit mine operations, we use fire plan and mining front release polygons as a starting point for quality control. We manipulate these generated cuts to meet specific needs based on economic factors, geometry of the…
Hexagon Mining brings precision and reliability to one of the most challenging stages of mining using its new drill and blast manager, HxM Blast. In a single interface it unites the design of drilling plans, inclusion of blasting parameters for the holes and moorings to the fire plan. In this way HxM Blast brings much more control over the design, management and reporting of drill plans. HxM Blast can work with existing fire plane polygons in MineSight or digitize a new one within the tool. For this you can count on extremely easy options, Template assignments and pre-defined functions for the design, naming your holes and defining dimension values for the mouth of the holes, for example. The configuration of spacing and spacing of the holes is completely dynamic, to facilitate…
The new Point Cloud Mesher (PCM) is a simple but very powerful application tool that was created with the aim of facilitating and improving work with large surfaces. It gives MineSight users the ability to triangulate from a 3D perspective coming from big point cloud data. Three-dimensional representations of underground cavities, tunnels, complex topographies and with a high level of detail can be easily and quickly generated while preserving their original features. In addition, PCM can refine the triangular mesh, performing surface interpolation to smooth data roughness or to variably discretize surface triangles, thus reducing complexity and file size, optimizing calculations and future work. Several mines in Brazil and around the world still face problems in the treatment and manipulation of surfaces with high levels of detail….
In open-pit mines located in regions with high rainfall, the drainage system is crucial to the efficiency of mining operations. Driving effluents out of the pit requires tilting the mining benches in order to direct the water to previously studied collection points. This article explores how mining bank inclination and appropriate methodology can facilitate mining planning and sequencing in open pit mines. Importance of Drainage System in Open Cast Mines In areas with high rainfall, efficient drainage is vital. Accumulated water can compromise the safety and efficiency of mining operations. Therefore, tilting the mining benches to guide water to specific collection points is essential. However, designing inclined mining plans for extensive mines…
Field samples are, without a doubt, the most important part of evaluating and planning a mine. Incorrect information will result in failed resources and mining plans. The reliability of your data is fundamental. MinePlan Torque will offer the QA/QC module, a built-in, flexible and easy-to-use quality assurance and control tool designed to validate and determine the precision and accuracy of laboratory samples. To do this, it provides graphical and analysis functionalities for analytical samples, standards, blanks and duplicates. Project Setup and Data Management The QA/QC backstage allows you to create, edit, import attributes, laboratories, analytical methods, measurement methods, blank samples and standards, as shown in Figure 1. Once the project setup is complete , the user can manage all data with guarantee and control…
Geostatistics based on variogram allows to generate two types of block model: Estimated and simulated. Estimated models depend on the implementation of kriging methods to calculate the mean and variance of each attribute of interest in each block. A wide range of kriging methods can be implemented, including universal kriging, ordinary kriging, and simple kriging. Each of these methods is designed for a specific purpose. Simulated models rely on implementing Gaussian-based simulation methods, including sequential Gaussian simulation (SGS), LU simulation, and tuning band simulation, to generate equally likely deposit scenarios that honor the drillhole data. Any of these Gaussian-based simulation methods are expected to generate the same type of realizations for a given variographic model. These methods are different in the way they handle resources…
