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21 Dec: Tips & Tricks Prominas/MineSight: Implicit Modeler using True Thickness for layer stacking

MineSight Implicit Modeler (MSIM) has been increasingly innovating and incorporating many new features since its release. One of the latest additions is the True Thickness tool. One of the improvements incorporated into the tool is the ability to restore a previous setup easily. The output – Files tab now has the option to save settings. With this, it is possible to quickly and easily change the MSIM setups, exporting and importing the parameter files. In this edition, the modeling of two groups of layers that are separated by a discontinuity will be discussed. In each of these groups, a reference layer was chosen. The modeling is carried out from drilling information for these layers and the others will be built using True Thickness (TTHK), from the stacking technique. For this technique…

20 Dec: Prominas/MineSight Tips & Tricks: Short Term Planning for your mine has never been easier!

MineSight Planner (MSPlanner) is one of MineSight's latest powerful new tools, designed for interactively generating short-term mine plans with dynamic reports. Most of its functionality stems directly from the success of MineSight Interactive Planner (MSIP), but it is also distinguished by many other features. A simple and intuitive interface along with additional planning features that will allow you to generate, execute and evaluate mine plans with ease and greater efficiency. Among the benefits of MSPlanner, the following stand out: Generate reservation reports in real time with the integration of MineSight Reserve block models, enabling the realization of reconciliations in the tool. Assign transport fleets and…

18 Dec: Tips & Tricks Prominas/MineSight: Variographic Modeling and Grade Interpolation.

This Tips & Tricks provides helpful suggestions on how to refine interpolation parameters and improve the accuracy of your 3D block model (3DBM). The Pintrpq.dat procedure in MineSight Compass uses MineSight Torque drillthrough data to interpolate values in the block model. Several different interpolation methods can be performed with this procedure: kriging techniques, including ordinary kriging and indicatrix kriging, the gradient technique, among others. You can create multiple block models or multiple model items for any parameter in order to compare and verify the results of different interpolations. Limiting the tween area The ability to limit the area of your tween implies that the pintrpq.dat procedure will run faster, making your operations more time efficient. If you have a particular model…

18 Dec: Tips & Tricks Prominas/MineSight: What's New in Pit Expansion.

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…

15 Dec: Prominas/MineSight Tips & Tricks: Digline in MineSight Schedule Optimizer (MSSO)

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…

13 Dec: Tips & Tricks Prominas/MineSight: Georeferencing vertical sections in MS3D.

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…

12 Dec: ProminasMineSight Tips & Tricks: MSEP Charting Efficiently analyzing data.

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…

09 Dec: Digblock Optimizer: Optimized cuts with MinePlan

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…

06 Dec: D&T – HxM Blast drilling plans with all the details.

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…

05 Dec: Prominas/MineSight Newsletter: Point Cloud Mesher – Revolutionizing work with large surfaces.

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….