Micromine
Exploration and Mine Design
Micromine is a comprehensive and easy-to-use
exploration and mine design solution, which
offers integrated tools for modelling, estimation,
design, optimisation and scheduling.
Micromine provides explorers with an in-depth
understanding of their projects so prospective regions
can be targeted more effectively, increasing the chance of
a project’s success. Miners are provided interactive and
easy-to-use estimation and mine design tools to simplify
day-to-day production tasks.
Micromine’s modular structure means it is adaptable
to your needs. As your operation grows and your
requirements change, Micromine will grow with you.
Its flexible, non-prescriptive nature also allows you to
adapt the software to your workflow. Micromine’s intuitive
graphical environment is ‘geologically logical’ with a
proven capability to handle large and complex graphical
datasets.
Ease of use
Micromine saves time and increases productivity. It is
renowned for its intuitive and user-friendly interface,
easily enabling advanced tasks, such as pit optimisation,
mine design and complex plot layouts to be executed
in minutes. Micromine’s intuitive macro capabilities and
reusable form sets facilitate rapid progression through
complex processes.
“Micromine has introduced significant benefits to
Great Panther by improving work practices and
efficiencies… Micromine continues to add value to
our business”.
Alistair Barrett, Mapping Manager, Great Panther
Powerful, fast editing tools
Micromine’s philosophy of simplicity extends to its
streamlined editing tools that allow complex geological
modelling and engineering design to be conducted
efficiently, accurately and with ease.
Microsoft Gold Partnership
Micromine complies with the latest Windows standards
providing a familiar working environment, and is Windows
8 and Windows 7 compatible.
Compatibility with third-party products
Compatible with many third-party software applications
including GIS, Google Earth, ALS CoreViewer and various
mining applications. Micromine’s import and export tools
make sharing data with other users and applications easy.
Micromine Functionality
Core
Core is the ‘engine’ of Micromine, allowing users to import,
validate, process, display and interpret a wide variety of surface,
drillhole and subsurface data. Core incorporates Vizex (Visual
Explorer), Micromine’s seamless 2D/3D viewing, design and editing
environment. It also supports Google Earth and numerous CAD, GIS,
GPS, image processing and mining application formats, most of
which can be displayed in Vizex without conversion. Core includes
essential statistical tools and powerful Plotting functionality, featuring
a Vizex-style interface which enables the creation of complex plot
layouts in minutes using ready-made templates. Core also includes
macro tools that allow any Micromine process, such as creating
multiple plot layouts, to be automated. The embedded Python
programming language can be used for advanced automation and
customisation.
Exploration
Micromine’s Exploration module
allows users to effortlessly
visualise, interpret and model
advanced data in a more
advanced exploration and
resource estimation project.
It includes comprehensive
statistics and charting tools for
Exploratory Data Analysis and
QA-QC, along with enhanced
drillhole calculation and display
options. Polyline sections
simplify the creation of multi-
segment cross-sections.
Advanced explorers and
resource evaluators benefit from Micromine incorporates a Semi
highly visual and interactive Variogram Map display with an
interactive Select Direction tool
variography and 2D gridding.
Wireframing
Micromine’s Wireframing module provides the tools for creating
the solids and surfaces used for advanced exploration, geological
modelling, resource estimation and mining. It builds wireframe shapes
representing orebody interpretations, underground workings and
production stopes referencing data such as centre-line strings, profile
shapes or polygonal strings. Management tools simplify ongoing
maintenance tasks, and grade/tonnage and volumes reports are
easily created from wireframes and drillhole data.
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Resource Estimation Mining

The Resource Estimation module is designed specifically
for detailed and advanced resource analysis and reporting
using block models. Advanced exploration work, in-house
resource estimation projects, resource estimation consulting,
and orebody modelling all use the Resource Estimation
module. The module supports block factor models and
sub-blocked models which can be aligned into the orientation
of the orebody, and multi-threaded interpolators minimise
waiting time.
Micromine’s Mining module includes a range of planning and
design tools for surface and underground mine operations.
Specialised tools simplify the design of development
and production openings, along with associated blasting
activities. One-click pit design tools accelerate the design
process, including automatic berm-by-berm pit and haul road
design, including switchbacks. The waste dump modeller
simplifies the creation of waste dumps with known levels
or volumes, and road design tools simplify the creation of
surface roads.

Implicit Modelling
Surveying
Micromine users can
create and visualise The Surveying module supports communications with survey
instruments and provides tools for survey calculations. Users
the most complex of
have access to generic tools for survey calculations, and
wireframe models.
DTM tools which simplify the process of creating surfaces
The Implicit Modelling
and calculating contours, thicknesses and volumes.
module uses industry-
standard radial basis
functions (RBFs) to Pit Optimisation
model grade shells,
lithology intervals, Micromine’s Pit Optimisation module is used to determine
Micromine’s Implicit Modelling module the most profitable open pit given a mineral resource and
faults or surfaces uses industry-standard radial basis a set of economic and metallurgical parameters. It is also
from drillholes, to model grade shells, lithology
used to perform advanced analysis of stockpiles and costs
point clouds and boundaries, faults and surfaces
over time. Micromine offers various analysis modes, allowing
polygonal boundaries.
a mining sequence to be defined anywhere between the
Wireframes extracted from an implicit model are readily best and worst-case scenarios. Pit optimisation assists
displayed in Vizex and are a valuable tool for finalising with understanding the potential value of the project and
geological or grade interpretations. Micromine offers identifying areas for future drilling. Results of advanced
simple methods for adding control points (such as drillhole analysis are used in various pre-feasibility and feasibility
intersections) to create a more accurate fault model. It also banking studies, providing expected return of investment
provides support for trend information to produce models and NPV, and considering multiple scenarios reduces
that better reflect your project area. potential uncertainty and risk.

Stratigraphic Modelling Scheduling

Micromine’s Stratigraphic Modelling module is ideal for
any stratified deposit. It includes an intuitive and visual
stratigraphic summary that makes it easy to understand
the relationships between layers. Plus, interpolation
options readily handle changes in thickness, producing the
best possible representation of the deposit. Visual seam
correlation provides an instant way to view and validate
stratigraphy or geological logging between drillholes, and the
new stratigraphic display makes it easy to visualise even the
most complex stratigraphic hierarchy.
The Scheduling module is an interactive scheduling solution,
which provides a streamlined interface, combining Gantt
charts and calendars with integrated visual and animated
views of the mine schedule, assisting both short and long-term
resource extraction planning. Users can visually see how the
mine will progress over a defined period of time. In addition to
tracking mine production parameters and assigning equipment
to resources, users can interactively define precedence,
establish time lags, re-sequence tasks and immediately see
the effect in Vizex.

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