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Underground Mine Planning

Solution for GEOVIA SURPAC™

Benefits • Automation is built into design and scheduling, freeing engineers from repetitive
tasks so they can spend more time analysing and improving end results.

• Manual importing and exporting of data is eliminated as data flows

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seamlessly between design, scheduling and analysis, saving engineers time

and reducing potential errors.

• Development precedence logic is built into designs which is automatically

read and understood by the scheduling component.

• Schedule analysis capability allows engineers to interrogate and supplement

the data used in development schedules.

• GEOVIA’s mining experts provide training and support for the whole solution.
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Underground Mine Planning
With GEOVIA’s underground mine
planning solution for GEOVIA Surpac™,
design, scheduling and analysis are
seamlessly linked together to provide
mine planners with more control over
mine development and economic return.
Surpac, its Advanced Underground
Design module and GEOVIA MineSched™
deliver an end-to-end system for
turning orebody models into optimal
mine designs and production schedules,
streamlining and automating key
processes along the way.
Design – Advanced The underground mine planning
solution provides a logically
Underground
linked design, scheduling and
Design Module analysis process.
With the Advanced Underground
Design module, testing a large number
of different mine designs to determine
the most effective one becomes
simple: Mine planners can create and
schedule several alternative mine
designs in the time it would normally
take to create just one.

The underground mine planning

Define the orebody
solution for Surpac can be applied to Auditability and
any underground mine layout: Repeatability
• Narrow reef/seam conventional
• All mine designs in the Advanced
mining
Underground Design module are
• Narrow reef/seam mechanised mining created by following a logical,
• Conventional long hole open stoping easy to use, and visual flowchart
design process.
• Mechanised retreat long hole
open stoping • The user defines the parameters for
each element of the design, which
• Cut and fill operations
is saved in an embedded database,
• Sub-level caving
ensuring designs are both auditable Construct the design
• Block caving and repeatable.

Develop the schedule

REPORT
• Dilution
• Geoloss
• Waste
• ROM
• Ore
• Schedule Details

Mine design is easy with a visual, flowchart-driven approach. Analyse

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Design Automation “I have been in the mining game for more than twenty-six
• The Advanced Underground Design years doing mine layouts, mining statistics, strategic planning
module offers mine planners
flexibility with its staged design
and capital projects, and my view is that the Surpac Advanced
process and the ability to easily Underground Design module is an excellent tool that can be
copy and modify other designs with applied to assist mine planning and project teams no matter
little effort.
what type of mining method is used.”
• With the module, design parameters
are used to build a complete mine — Len Backhouse, Mine Designer,
design in Surpac that can be PTM, Platinum Group Metals (RSA) (PTY) Ltd.
constructed with Surpac data types
as complete or partial designs.

• The design environment frees mine

planners from mundane drafting
tasks, allowing more time to be
spent optimising designs and
testing alternatives.

Schedule – MineSched
MineSched is used by underground
mining operations of all types and
sizes to produce long-term and short-
term schedules and to meet blending
targets. MineSched offers a broad
set of capabilities, proven scheduling
algorithms, and the ability to output
results in a wide variety of formats. Generate detailed analyses and reports.

• Integrated development and

production scheduling.
• Repeatedly re-create long or
short-term schedules to explore
alternative scheduling scenarios with
MineSched’s simple setup capability.
• Create schedules that meet
quality and material ratio targets
while considering practical
mining constraints and suitable
mining methods.
• Produce schedules with complete
reports and graphical results in
just minutes.
• Ensure resource capacities are never
exceeded with resource allocation
and leveling.
• Schedule using “actual” dates to
create the most accurate mine plans.
• Change scheduling parameters at any
point along a development heading.
• Use powerful constraint definitions
on any group of headings.
• Allocate resources to headings
based on user defined priorities
and constraints.
• Schedule based on heading length,
volume, tonnage or quantity of
any product.
• Report on development tonnage
and grades from block, polygonal
and grid models.
Underground networks with thousands of headings
can be designed and scheduled with ease.
Analyse
The underground mine planning
solution offers mine planners the
ability to review both mine designs and
schedules. Using an iterative review
process, the best mine designs and
schedules can quickly be determined.
Advanced Underground
Design Module
• Compare mine designs by applying
calculated fields based on existing
values from MineSched schedules.
• Audit the analysis process with
parameters for data extraction that
can be stored, reviewed
and compared.
• Employ an iterative process to
adjust designs based on the
Completed design including ramps, crosscuts,
and draw points.
projected economic efficiency of
the results produced.
MineSched
• Use 2D and 3D graphics to visually
validate and communicate activities
and engineering drawings.
• Utilise reporting functions that
provide clear insight into the
period by period grade, tonnes,
equipment requirements, and
economics of a plan.
• Produce complete Microsoft®
Project Gantt charts and network
diagrams with ease that allow
mining activities to be reviewed
by sequence and time. The Gantt
charts MineSched creates include
full task dependency links and
organised activity groups.

GEOVIA Surpac Solution 3

Underground Mine
Planning Solution
for GEOVIA surpac
GEOVIA Surpac™:
Geology and Mine
Planning
GEOVIA Surpac is the world’s most
popular geology and mine planning
software. The software delivers
efficiency and accuracy through
ease-of-use, powerful 3D graphics,
and workflow automation that can be
aligned to company-specific processes
and data flows. Surpac addresses
all the requirements of geologists,
surveyors, and mining engineers in the
resource sector.
For more information email GEOVIA.Surpac@3ds.com or visit www.3ds.com/GEOVIA/Surpac.
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GEOVIA MineSched™:
Surface and Surpac
Underground
Scheduling
GEOVIA MineSched provides
scheduling for surface and
underground mines of all sizes and
types. It incorporates a broad set
of built-in functionality, proven
scheduling algorithms, and multiple
output results such as graphics and
charts. MineSched creates schedules
that improve productivity and profits
beyond what could be achieved by
manual scheduling. MineSched
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