This week we are going to talk about the big and important news for underground mine projects and how MineSight has managed to integrate numerous tools to facilitate the work and optimize the time of professionals in the area. This will be the first in a series of Tips & Tricks aimed exclusively at Underground tools. In this way, we will talk about how MineSight is the result of the application of experience and knowledge in order to illuminate the tasks of evaluation and engineering of underground mines. Atlas, Stope, Sub-Blocking, Implicit Modeler and a host of new CAD tools are the result of all this effort. MineSight Atlas and MineSight Sub-Blocking open up a new world of modeling and activity-based planning work for underground mines. In conjunction with MineSight Stope, Decline Design and Room and Pillar tools, the demand for productivity is now even more favorable under the surface. “MineSight…
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In this week's Tips & Tricks we'll talk a little about Decline Design, a new tool option that facilitates the design of accesses to underground mines. Decline Design is the tool that allows you to easily create accesses and ramps for underground mines, in order to find the shortest distance between two points, respecting slope and radius of curvature. Its configuration panel is quite simple and has the necessary options to create new accesses in just a few clicks. With the arrival of Decline Design, it is no longer necessary to develop the access manually, it is enough to inform the start and end points, letting the tool scale and return with the best result, always respecting the entered premises such as, radius of curvature, inclination of ramp, curved slope and type of access. In addition to all these…
MineSight is bringing precision and reliability to one of the most difficult stages of mining with a new drill and blast management tool. MineSight Blast will revolutionize the design and execution of drilling and blast plans with all the ease of MineSight 3D tools. In a single interface, the user will be able to draw drilling plans, apply blast parameters and connect a fire. According to Mark Gabbitus, MineSight Operational Product Manager, “MineSight Blast will redefine blasting. A bad blast can undo all the good work done by geologists and engineers to build a solid block model and mine plan. Therefore, it is vitally important that the design and execution of the blast minimize errors and interpret the effects when things don't go the way...
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…
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…
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…
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…
