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…
MineSight introduces a new addition to the MineSight Axis Grade Control suite: the Digblock Optimizer (DBO)! Grade Control is essential for short-term success, detailing materials and their respective destinations to reach your production target. Bad Grade Control practices lead to improper or inadequate optimization of your cut design, causing a lot of dilution or even erroneous classification to which destination it will proceed. MSAxis-DBO generates economically optimized cuts to be used in quality control in your mine. In many open pit mine operations, fire plan and mine face clearance polygons are used as a starting point for quality control. These generated cuts can be manipulated to meet specific needs based on economic factors, warehouse geometry and mine equipment….
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….
Tips & Tricks Prominas/MineSight: Operationalization and mining sequencing with inclined benches. Tips & Tricks Prominas/MineSight: Operationalization and mining sequencing with inclined benches. In open pit mines located in regions with high rainfall, the need for a drainage system has always been a factor of great importance in mining activities. One of the most significant actions in this regard, the conduction of effluents out of the pit, is the inclination of all the mining benches in the mine so that they lead the water to previously studied collection points. Currently, the task of designing inclined mine plans in large mines is extremely complicated due to the fact that the block model is not inclined, and it is at this point that the proposed new methodology will have its fundamental role: to facilitate the application of mine planning…
Field samples are arguably the most important part of mine assessment and planning. Incorrect information will result in failure of resources and mine plans. The reliability of your data is critical. MineSight Torque will offer the QA/QC module, an embedded, flexible and easy-to-use quality assurance and control tool designed to validate and determine the precision and accuracy of laboratory samples. To this end, it provides graphing and analysis functionality for analytical samples, standards, blanks, and duplicates. The QA/QC backstage allows creating, editing, importing attributes, laboratories, analytical methods, measurement methods, blank samples and standards, as shown in Figure 1. Once the project configuration is finished, the user can manage all the data with assurance and quality control in three different categories: samples,…
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…
