MALLA REDDY ENGINEERING COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)

MAISAMMAGUDA, DHULAPALLY, KOMPALLY, MEDCHAL,

HYDERABAD-5001
DEPARTMENT OF MINING ENGINEERING
OREBODY MODELING AND RESERVE ESTIMATION BY USING SURPAC
MAJOR PROJECT STAGE-II REVIEW

PRESENTED BY
UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF: KAVURU VINEETHA (18J41A2523)
P. TAVITI NAIDU
Assistant Professor PUNGANURU JEEVESH (18J41A2537)
Department of Mining Engineering CHANDRAMMAGARI PAVAN KUMAR
MREC
(19J45A2503)
KATAKAM SAI TEJA (19J45A2508)
MD MOMIN ALI (19J45A2514)
CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
LITERATURE REVIEW
METHODOLOGY
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
FUTURE SCOPE OF WORK
CONCLUSION
 INTRODUCTION
• Generally, the size of the database is just too bulky to manage studies with hand effort. Thus, numerical
algorithms and mathematical approaches necessitate computer applications to beat huge computational time
and processes.

• SURPAC is a computer-aided valuation system capable of generation of the survey, stratigraphy, assay
databases, drill hole, and bench compositing, 2D and 3D log sectioning, contouring, 3D surface generation,
cross-sectioning, 3D orebody modeling, designing of the open pit, volume, and reserve estimation and
economical valuation.

• With the help of a mine planning and design software SURPAC, a geological database was created into
which the coordinates and alignment of the borehole points and their constituents along with their grades
were fed into.
 LITERATURE REVIEW
SNO AUTHOR TITLE SCOPE OUTCOMES
& &
YEAR STRATEGIES

1 Saboror et al Conventional and Discusses about the computer Through comparison, gave
December 2017 computer aided ore aided methods and the proper accurational
reserve estimation conventional methods. analysis of 71 drillholes
record.

2 Maitreya et al Geological modelling of a To develop a graphical The overall surface area for
July 2017 deposit and application representation of the ore the ore model is obtained
using SURPAC deposit from the borehole data, and grade estimation is
compute it’s reserve and calculated.
estimate it’s grade.

3 Dr.H.K Naik et al Optimization study of a Mathematical-statistical The completion of pit

December 2018 surface mine and grade analysis and determining cut-off design, the amount of ore
monitoring using SURPAC. grade. loss due to part of ore
falling outside the pit.
 TIME FRAME
September-2021 November-2021 January- 2021

Starting of a Project . Practicing the project with demo

data Completed the project.

Learning and studying about the Preparation and analysis of the paper.
project. Getting data from GSI. Also published the paper.

October- 2021 December-2021

February -2022
METHODOLOGY
 GEOLOGICAL DATA CONCEPTS

• The Geological Database module in SURPAC is an

Collar table

important area of functionality when you are conducting

feasibility studies, or want to perform estimations from

drill hole data.

• A geological database consists of several tables, each of

Required geological database tables
which contains different types of data.

• Each table contains several fields. Each table also has

many records, with each record containing the data fields.

 STUDY ABOUT THE  DRILL HOLES

Displaying the drill holes Gold grade

Rock material Both Gold grade and Rock material

ANALYSIS OF DRILL HOLES BY CREATING STRINGS
AND INTERSECTING THEM TO FORM AN OREBODY

Drawing strings Displaying strings with Boreholes Displaying strings without Boreholes
 DTM’S (DIGITAL TERRAIN MODELS)

• Digital Terrain Models or DTM’s

are how SURPAC models
surface. 
• Surfaces are used in SURPAC for
such things as 3D visualization
Solid validation report and estimation calculating
volumes. 
• DTM’s are made of triangles, with
each point of each triangle
equivalent to a point in the
original String file.

X, Y, Z min and max values

DTM(Digital Terrain Model)
 BLOCK MODELLING

• From the available exploration data, a geological

database is created to determine the extent of ore
deposits and characteristics.

• A full-body volume analysis has been done of the

created block model to compare the volume of the ore
body which has been determined and the volume of
the block model of the ore body.

Display of Block modelling

 ORE BODY MODELLING
• Here the process has executed the development of the ore
body. The ore body has been developed from the boreholes
through frequent sectioning and digitizing of the boreholes.

Display of Solid modelling

• The calculation of the ore body is completely dependent on

the software.

Solid Modelling Report

 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
• The diagram frames the mean against the Coefficient of Variation (COV) at various grade cut-offs, allowing

the geologist to examine which cut-off will yield an acceptable COV and its effect on the mean grade.

• To help geologists in making these decisions, the development of a tool called the ‘mean and variance top

cut diagram’, is located inside the Basic Statistics window.

• The diagram plots the mean against the Coefficient of Variation (COV) at various grade cut-offs, allowing

the geologist to assess which cut-off will yield an acceptable COV and its impact on the mean grade.

• A histogram and cumulative frequency curve will then be exhibited.

Statistical analysis of gold for Cumulative Frequency ( Number of samples on Y-axis and class on X-axis)

Statistical analysis of gold for Frequency ( Number of samples on Y-axis and class on X-axis)
Statistical analysis of gold for Cumulative Frequency and Frequency ( Number of samples on Y-axis and class on X-axis)

Statistical analysis of gold for Normal Distribution ( Number of samples on Y-axis and class on X-axis)
 FUTURE SCOPE OF WORK

 With the help of the three-dimensional model, it will be very easy to calculate ore reserve estimation

by the options available in SURPAC under the design menu.

 Eliminating the process of drilling the excess amount of overburden, which reduces the economy and

time-capital.

 Enables mining practitioners to quantify and evaluate mineral deposits and to plan the efficient

extraction of reserves.
 CONCLUSION

• Once estimation of the ore body has finished the report of the ore body has been generated which shows the

volume, tonnage, average grade of the minerals of the ore body.

• Summary reports have also been generated as per attributes inputted which include calculating reserve as

per depth and different mineral grades.

• The overall surface area is 357671m² and the volume is 3460976m³.

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