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This technical data sheet describes the Micromine modules required for Exploration.
CORE Module
CORE is the engine of Micromine and is always included in every installation. This powerful module allows you to import, validate, process, display and interpret a wide variety of surface, drillhole, and subsurface data.
CORE key features include: Fast and flexible data import, export, entry, editing, processing and validation
Basic gridding and contouring functions Coordinate transformations between all common coordinate systems in use around the world, including local plane grids External database links using ODBC On-the-fly data filtering Automation and repetition of any Micromine process using macros and Form Sets (saved dialog boxes) Multiple windows, including floating and docked overviews. Clipped section limits can optionally be highlighted as corridors in other views Streamlined and intuitive spatial editing with the Active Layer. Simply click a feature in any editable layer to start modifying it Simple grade-tonnage calculations using polygonal outlines Native support of many third-party CAD, GIS, image processing and mining application formats Ability to export 3D views to CAD or Virtual Reality file formats, and tables to Excel format
As a CORE user, you view supported data using Vizex (Visual Explorer), a true 3D visualisation environment that allows you to simultaneously display, query, and interactively edit multiple data layers.
VIZEX provides:
A multiple-document, multiple-window interface allowing you to display any combination of graphical or tabular windows, which can be docked, tabbed, or tiled Seamless 2D/3D transitions with one-click immediate access to user-defined views in any orientation, and numerous 2D and 3D coordinate grid display options Geolinked windows, allowing you to keep all views synchronised as you browse your 3D data Flexible view management tools including user-defined Section Control Files, section browsing tools, and zoom-to-selection capabilities Comprehensive per-object configuration tools including labelling, symbolisation, draw style, visibility, dynamic data pop-up, snapping, and selection Powerful snapping tools including snapping to points, lines, coordinate grids, and intersections. You can also snap when youre not editing, for example measuring length or area, or drawing interactive sections Many editing and manipulation tools including curves, gradients, bearing/distance, splitting, between-point, draping, smoothing, simplification, replication and more Intuitive and interactive tools for creating 3D fly-through animations and recording them to common media file formats
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exploration Module
The EXPLORATION module extends the basic capabilities of Vizex to include the analytical and modelling tools, and required statistics and geostatistics functionality needed in a more advanced exploration project such resource estimation.
EXPLORATION key features include: Advanced Vizex display objects such as contours, pie charts, and drillhole structures Advanced statistical tools including semi-variograms, variogram surfaces, assay quality control, and single or multiple linear regression Display menu item: Graph Strings menu item: Create DTM Advanced drillhole menu items: Data entry, reporting, calculations, compositing, merge, and log Advanced Stats menu items: Scattergrams, quality control, semi variogram options, trend surface, QQ plots, and paired samples Advanced Grid menu items: Create (including kriging and trend removal), assign, and generate Z values EXPLORATION key benefits include: Ability to visualise, interpret and model advanced project data Vizex displays such as contours, pie charts and oriented drillhole structures Easily manage drillhole information with advanced drillhole options Ability to combine, simplify, or redistribute drillhole data using downhole, grade, interval, geology (and other) compositing methods DTM menu items: Create, volumes, contours, boundary strings, seam thickness, assign, and generate Z values Enhanced gridding and contouring Digital terrain modelling and calculations, including contouring, volume, and thickness Oriented drillhole structural data processing, including on-the-fly calculation of apparent or true dip from raw core measurements Stacked section displays Statistical and geostatistical calculations Drillhole calculations including numerous compositing options Drillhole log displays with interactive grade intersection calculations Ternary diagrams, stereonets, and spider plots Analyse advanced exploration data with advanced statistics and geostatistics Use grid tools to perform advanced surface modelling Build digital terrain models with DTM tools Use DTM tools to label points as falling above or below a DM, and use a DTM to generate new Z (elevation) values Calculate cut-and-fill volumes, or the volume between two DTMs
EXPLORATION is used in all types of exploration projects as well as for resource evaluation. It is also a prerequisite module for the RESOURCE ESTIMATION module because of its advanced statistics and geostatistics functionality.
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Vizex
Micromine uses Vizex (Visual Explorer), a true 3D visualisation environment that allows you to simultaneously display, query, and interactively edit multiple data layers.
MINING Module
MICROMINES MINING module provides the necessary design tools for open pit or surface and underground mining.
MINING key features include:
Advanced Vizex display objects: Pit Design, Underground Design, Ring Design, and Blasthole Design The Grade Control, Ring Design, Blast Design, Pit Design, and Mine Design toolbars The Mining menu including: Underground stope, panel, and ring design Open pit, stockpile, and blasthole design Pit optimisation import/export Sophisticated functions for drive, rise, shaft, decline and incline design Blast pattern design including calculation of volumes, production of collar/assay files, and blast displacement of ore blocks Ring design tools Interactive grade control calculations Import and export functions to exchange data with the Whittle Proteus and MineMax pit optimisation programmes Open pit and underground grade control in any orientation using wireframes, closed strings, or outlines Blast charge calculation options and enhanced blast design tools Open pit design tools for cartographic slope lines
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Vizex
Micromine uses Vizex (Visual Explorer), a true 3D visualisation environment that allows you to simultaneously display, query, and interactively edit multiple data layers.
Wireframing Module
The Wireframing module provides the tools for building, managing, and analysing 3D solids and 3D surfaces used for advanced exploration, resource estimation, mining and geological modelling. It uses powerful and intuitive tools for visually constructing 3D shapes to illustrate underground mine designs or orebody interpretations, using data such as centre-line strings, profile shapes or polygonal strings.
WIREFRAMING key features include:
The Wireframe toolbar The entire Wireframe menu including: Editor, Centre Line to Solid, Surface or Solid from Profile, Build Polygonal Solids Surface to Solid, Bedding Plane from Points, Grade Shells Boolean, Intersection Strings, Slice by Planes, Cut, Separate Pierce Points, Assign, Generate Outlines Grade Tonnage Report, Volumes, Attribute Assign Utilities, Clean, Simplify, Save as Single Wireframe Interactive wireframe construction and editing of simple or complex shapes with on-the-fly validation One-click construction of 3D solids with automatic detection and modelling of bifurcations (trouser legs) Interactive wireframe triangle editing, with snapping Back-calculation of drillhole pierce points Sophisticated interactive and automated wireframe Boolean operations Generation of solids from strings Generation of solids from two surfaces Numerous display options including draping, transparency, smoothing, edge highlighting, and per-attribute colouring Data flagging using wireframe surfaces or solids. Block models can be sub-blocked or factored. 3D point attributes can be reverse-assigned back to wireframes Creation of outlines or contours from wireframes Wireframe grade-tonnage reports using point, drillhole, or block model source data Wireframe utilities including simplification, separation, polygonal cutting, slicing, coordinate transformation (between any supported coordinate systems), and clipping
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RESOURCE ESTIMATION key features include: Advanced Vizex Display object: Search Ellipsoid The entire Modelling menu including: 2D Block Estimate, Gridded Seam Estimate, 3D Block Estimate (including inverse distance weighted, ordinary/universal kriging, indicator kriging, multiple indicator kriging, and statistical, unfolding and flattening) Model Report, Index, Sub-blocking (including reblocking, adding, optimising, and regularising a block model), Generate Waste Blocks Seam Coding 2D and 3D block modelling Sub-blocking tools including validation, reblocking, adding and optimising Flattening and unfolding for complex deposits Polygonal resource estimation Gridded seam modelling 3D block (isotropic or anisotropic) inverse distance weighted interpolation 2D grid nearest neighbour 2D grid minimum curvature 3D block kriging (ordinary/universal with optional trend removal and natural log transform, rank, indicator and multiple indicator including nested) Wireframe constraints Numerous block model reporting options
RESOURCE ESTIMATION key benefits include: Available Micromine tools such as form sets simplify the process of setting up a resource estimation Form sets also provide a documentation trail (essential for standards-compliant reporting) and a quick and easy way to re-run a resource estimation Regular models (where the blocks are all the same size) and subblocked models (where the block size varies in response to the complexity of the orebody) are both supported Sub-blocking tools make it easy to convert sub-blocked models into regular models, and vice versa. This is essential for sharing data with other applications that do not support sub-blocking Sub-blocking tools also make it easy to combine different models for the same project, for example an orebody model (where blocks only exist within the orebody) with a waste model (where blocks exist in surrounding barren areas that may still be extracted by the mine). The Resource Estimation in-built validation ensures there are no conflicts between the models
RESOURCE ESTIMATION is used for: Advanced exploration In-house resource estimation work Resource estimation consulting Mining Orebody modelling
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introduction
Many mining operations use a manual scheduling process combining generic spreadsheet and project management applications. Although these tools are capable of getting the job done, they have shortcomings such as lack of integration; managing complex formulae, importing and exporting files, version control and data integrity risks.
MICROMINE SCHEDULING
The Micromine Scheduling module provides a smart, integrated solution to assist short term planning of resources to tasks over a given period of time. It enables the optimum mineral extraction process to meet corporate objectives. Scheduling utilises the powerful mine planning and design tools within the Micromine Wireframing module to generate a 3D block model of the mine. The block models define the tonnes and grade (quality) of the ore body represented as a three dimensional view of the material to be removed and forming the basis of the subsequent production sequencing. The information can be displayed against predetermined attributes and constraints to provide both a visual and temporal schedule that defines how each mining block will be extracted and over what period of time. Micromine Scheduling overcomes the problems associated with manual scheduling methods such as generic spreadsheets combined with project management applications including: Maintaining complex formulae and equations associated with spreadsheets Avoiding the often error prone step of importing mining blocks and associated attributes from 3rd party applications into the spreadsheet Overcomes the limitations of the Gantt chart facilities in applications such as Microsoft Project. Whereas these facilities do enable diagrammatic representation of the Schedule, they are unable to handle mining attributes such as tonnes, grades and equipment resources adequately
SCHEDULING key features include: Fully integrated within Micromine no requirement for manual processes such as managing complex Excel spreadsheets and importing and exporting files to third party applications Creation of block models to map the resource Provides sequencing, allocation of resources and time components Provides integrated visual and animated 3D views of the schedule using Vizex, the Micromine 3D environment Provides temporal and dependency information in a Gantt chart window Offers various reporting options including visual and temporal SCHEDULING key benefits include:
Schedules the extraction of material to meet production and economic targets Automatically works out what material will be extracted to cost effectively meet targets Calculates volumes and grades over user-defined time periods Allocates resources Calculates the time it will take to mine Provides an ordered sequence of events Provides both time (temporal) and visual (Micromine 3D) reporting Is fully integrated within Micromine making manual scheduling obsolete
Screen 1 illustrates the Scheduling data visualised in both Vizex and the Gantt chart concurrently to show both temporal and spatial views.
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The pre-schedule stage. Use tools such as Wirefram Extrusion, Wireframe Centreline to Solid, Wireframe Boolean, and Wireframe Cut to create Mining Block wireframes.
Step 1 Prepare
The reserving stage. Use functions like Wireframe | Grade Tonnage Report Estimate or Wireframe | Attribute Assign or Grade Control. Optionally define the sequence using Wireframe | Assign.
Select Scheduler | Schedule | New. This creates a Microsoft Access or SQL Server database and a subfolder for files used to support the scheduling process.
The default calendar is a 24/7 operation. Use the Scheduler | Calendar function to modify the default calendar or add a new calendar. Multiple calendars are supported. In terms of mining blocks, Resources represent the equipment used to extract material. Each resource has defined Work Rate. Rate units are always time based for example Tonnes per Hour. Alternatively, Tasks can be assigned a Default Work Rate. Exceptions, due to factors such as commissioning, maintenance or training, can be defined.
Step 2 Configure
Define Attributes
Attributes associated with a Task can be tracked, recorded and reported on. Typical attributes for a Mining Block are Volume, SG, Tonnes and Grade. One of these attributes is called the Task Quantity. The Rate of the Resource(s) assigned to a Task, together with the Task Quantity, determine how long a Task will take to complete.
Task Types are a way of grouping Tasks with the same Attributes. Once tasks have been imported (see below) they can also be grouped in the Gantt View.
Import the mining block wireframes as Tasks, either interactively (using Vizex) or via the Scheduler | Tasks | Add Multiple function. Strings, digitised in Vizex, are a convenient way to define sequences. Task Attributes can be mapped to Wireframe Attributes.
Finalise Sequencing
Use the Scheduling | Interactive | Resequence tools, or the Gantt View, to perform any additional sequencing. Use task groups to logically group tasks (for example into pits, or levels, or drives, or panels).
All Tasks (mining blocks) can be given a default Rate. For greater flexibility, Resources with Variable Rates can be assigned Tasks.
Validate Sequencing
Step 4 Validate
Use the tools in Vizex and the Gantt View to validate the schedule. Use colour coding to check Resource Allocations or Sequencing. Play an animation to visualise the process.
Use the facilities in the Gantt View to assign Dependencies, or Lag, between tasks.
Step 5 Report
Report on Tasks, Resources and Attributes for given time periods. Export results into Excel for graphing and further analysis. In Vizex use the time based slider to visualise the mine at any future date.
Screen 2 shows a complex schedule in terms of dependencies (visible in the Gantt behind the dialog box) and the level of fine control over events shown in the calendar for a resource with regular maintenance days and modified working hours
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