The HxGN MinePlan product team and Prominas are pleased to announce the release of HxGN MinePlan Activity Scheduler v6.6 and HxGN MinePlan Schedule Optimizer v13.10.1, which come with many improvements and enhancements. Hexagon has worked hard to incorporate your comments and suggestions to ensure this release provides the best possible performance and functionality. We are confident that these improvements will add value to your experience. We welcome your feedback and comments as we continually strive to improve MinePlan to meet your needs. If you have questions about how to install the software, the Prominas Support team is available to support you. Thank you for choosing MinePlan. We look forward to continuing to serve you with exceptional products and services What's New in HxGN MinePlan Activity Scheduler v6.6 What's New in HxGN MinePlan Scheduler Optimizer v13.10.1 To check out more about this and…
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Pushback design is one of the most important elements in open pit mining planning. This technique consists of defining excavation phases that are economically viable, safe techniques and strategically organized to optimize resource cleaning. A good pushback design allows you to advance in stages, prioritizing the areas of greatest value and maintaining the stability of operations. By choosing the right design, laurel operations gain in efficiency, mineral utilization and cost control, generating added value to the project. To plan the pushback project, there are different methods that can be applied according to the type of deposit and the objectives of each mining phase. Learn about the Incremental and Directional methods, two approaches widely used in the sector. What are Pushbacks? Pushbacks play a…
Link Viewer – Reserves: Visualization of cuts and topographies inserted in MinePlan Reserves 4.5. Did you know that MinePlan Reserves 4.5, released together with MinePlan 2023 Release 2, has a new option, which allows the user to view the selected cut or topography in its interface? The Link Viewer option, located in the Geometry Cuts and Surface Cuts tabs, makes it possible to highlight selected geometries and/or surfaces on the MinePlan 3D (MP3D) screen. To do this, the user must access Setup Reserves located in the MP3D Reserves menu, insert the desired geometries to perform the cubing and enable the Link Viewer option. Subsequently, when selecting a certain element in the tool interface, it will be highlighted in MP3D, as shown below. Figure 1: Link Viewer option – Mineplan Reserves 4. So, did you like this tip? For more information about the Link Viewer option…
Pushback Naming – MinePlan Project Evaluator: Automatically naming pushbacks generated during optimization. Did you know that the MinePlan Project Evaluator (MPPE) features an option that makes it easy to nominate different pushbacks created in your project? During the pit optimization stage, it is common to work with a large volume of information, especially after carrying out sensitivity analyses. Therefore, organizing data is a great way to facilitate the workflow of a project. In MinePlan Project Evaluator (MPPE), when working on the Pushback Task to generate mining phases, you can automatically name, through the use of tokens, the different pushbacks created by the optimization. This can be done via the Pushback Name option. Tokens can be assigned names considering parameters such as: incremental order of phases; economic function that was used; methodology for defining…
Data Manager: Organizing data and managing object visualization. Did you know that MinePlan 3D (MP3D) has in its interface a section dedicated to the organization and management of your data? The Data Manager, located on the left part of the MinePlan interface, is responsible for functions such as managing, creating and deleting folders and objects from a project, opening and closing folders and objects, importing and exporting data, among others. . It is divided into two tabs: the Project View tab, which contains all project folders and objects in the upper part, and the contents of the selected folder in the lower part. And the Open View tab, where only the data that is open is shown at the top, and the Materials assigned to elements of those objects are shown at the bottom. Figure 1…
The MinePlan team has been actively listening and incorporating valuable customer feedback and has implemented several improvements as a result. This release covers a number of exciting features and enhancements to a variety of our tools. What's New in HxGN Geoscience MinePlan Multi-Indicator Variographic Analysis Multi-indicator variographic analysis has been added to the MinePlan Sigma geostatistics solution. Users can now conveniently analyze their multi-gauge overlay variograms, select parameters for multi-gauge kriging, and then send the selected parameters directly to the Model Interpolation Tool for model interpolation. This adds another important function to geostatistical tools for more accurate modeling on complex data with skewed distributions where more traditional variogram models may not be appropriate. Figure 1: Variographic Analysis of Multiple Indicators with input data and results visualized in MinePlan…
The MinePlan development team has been hard at work listening to customer feedback and making improvements to improve the products. The first 2023 version of MinePlan includes an entirely new product and a number of new features in existing tools. HxGN MinePlan Block Model Manager This release introduces HxGN MinePlan Block Model Manager, a solution that addresses the complex challenges associated with managing project data. With MinePlan Block Model Manager, users can quickly populate, manage and share block models from HxGN MinePlan 3D and third-party systems. One of the main features of Block Model Manager is its new API, which simplifies integration with other systems, allowing data interoperability. This means you no longer need to manually import or export block model data, simplifying the process…
MinePlan Activity Scheduler – Database: New MinePlan Activity Scheduler (MPAS) storage option in MinePlan 2023 Release 2. Did you know that in the new version of MinePlan, an option for remote storage of MPAS projects has been added? The latest MinePlan update, MinePlan 2023 Release 2, includes an option that allows users to store and access their MPAS projects remotely, also allowing access by more than one simultaneous user to the same project. To use this option, the user must map a server, where the project will be stored, through the option Configure Remote Data Store Location, available in MPAS/Planner Project Converter in the Utilities menu of MinePlan 3D (MP3D). It is necessary to map the Host (ID) of the server and the Port of access to it, and then create and configure the project normally…
The Mineral Content panel allows you to define mineral content restrictions for destinations, applying a lower and upper limit for each material, destination, area, phase and period.
The Split option, located under the Activity menu in MPAS, allows a sequenced activity on your Gantt chart to be split by geometry, mass, percentage or time.
