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….
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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…
The design and scheduling of operations tasks are some of the most complex steps in sequencing and validating mining activities. In MineSight Atlas you can view and change your sequencing in real time, directly on the screen or through pre-defined restrictions, allowing the user to make his plan quickly and consequently have more time for analysis and improvement of his projects. In this Tips & Tricks we will highlight some types of restrictions that will help users to have better control and optimization of planned activities, imposing start and end methods for each activity. Finish By: This option allows you to define a date when the activity must be finished by allocating resources in order to meet a deadline. The resource allocation option for setting a date can be programmed in two…
When creating a geological model, interpolating or using it in mine planning, you will certainly need some kind of extra calculation for coding the block model, which is an essential part of the process, such as density coding, value economics, equivalent grades, classification codes, among others. For this purpose we have Model Calculation, which is a robust MineSight tool. With this it is possible to create several formulas to code in the block model in a timely manner, several limit options and possibilities of block-by-block tests before executing the formula in the entire block model, saving you time. The novelty now is that MineSight will release a revamped version of this tool, with a range of new features and a dynamic interface, in addition to transforming it into a plug-in, optimizing procedures. You…
You've probably heard the saying "cheap is expensive", right? This usually happens when you have chosen the cheapest option and the end result does not live up to your expectations. To obtain the desired quality, it is not always necessary to invest more resources, but to optimize and/or adapt your demand, because “time is money”. The main strategy of a project is to balance the time x quality x cost relationship. When we talk about quality, it is important to have the very clear concept that quality is suitability for use and also compliance with requirements, that is, defining what is important in demand. MineSight is a software provider of integrated and innovative solutions that guarantee ease, agility and, above all, quality so that we can get even closer to the shortest time, the best results and the lowest cost. We often have…
Hexagon Mining | MineSight is bringing greater precision, reliability and flexibility into one of the most difficult stages of mining, through a new tool that is revolutionizing the design and execution of drilling and blast plans in mining. HxM Blast allows to improve fragmentation results, excavator loading rate, reduce secondary blasts, improve operational floor condition, slope stability and mainly increase productivity and reduce costs. In a single interface, the user can design drilling meshes, apply blast parameters to the holes, perform validations, interact with other MineSight tools, among other resources. HxM Blast will provide more control over drill mesh design, management and reporting and its modern interface reflects the look and feel of current MineSight products. One of the features…
