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PCBC Tutorial
Tutorial Of PCBC
Construction of Plan Of Production Of A Mine
Underground Exploited by Panel‐Block Caving
Prepared By: Juan Quiroz R.
Updated By: Gabriela Bravo To.
October 2013
Table Of Content
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 3
Creation Of Project e Import Of Model Of Block ..................................................................................... 4
Generation Of A New Project ............................................................................................................. 4
Creation Of Space Where Is Matter The Model Of Blocks ................................................................... 7
Import Of Model Of Block .................................................................................................................... 10
Footprint Finder ................................................................................................................................... 25
Configuration Of FF2 ........................................................................................................................ 29
Result FootPrint Finder ..................................................................................................................... 34
Configuration Of Parameters Of PCBC ................................................................................................. 36
Creation Of Layout ............................................................................................................................ 41
Import Of Points Of Extraction ......................................................................................................... 45
Configuration Of Type Of Rocks ....................................................................................................... 47
Generation Of Columns .................................................................................................................... 51
BHOD, Best Height Economic Optimal ................................................................................................. 56
Creation Of Sequence ........................................................................................................................... 57
Creation Program Of Production .......................................................................................................... 64
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Introduction
The Present Tutorial Search Be A Tool For The Use Of Software Gems Specifically The
Module Of Planning Mining PCBC Used In Mines Exploited By Block Panel Caving.
Is Show The Process Full Is Say From The Import Of A Model Of Block Happening By All
The Stages Intermediate Until At last Get a Get A Program Of Production. The Stages More
Relevant Are:
‐ Import Model Of Blocks
‐ Footprint Finder
‐ Parameters Of PCBC
‐ BHOD
‐ Creation Of Sequence
‐ Creation Of Plan Of Production
For The Tutorial In Question Is Used The Following Model Of Blocks:
(*The Information Presented In This Introduction Varies Depending on Of Case Of I am a
student a Consider
Name Of Model of Block: Catalina Information
contained:
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Is Introduces The Name Of Project.
* No Is Necessary Include A Description.
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Is Introduced The Minerals Content In The Model Corresponding And The Number Of Decimals
With The Which one Is Work.
Is Press The Option Test And Then finish.
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Is Press The Option Following.
Creation Of Space Where Is Matter The Model Of Blocks
A Time Created The Project Is Has What Create A Project Of Model Of Block For What Which one
Is Has What Do Click Right In Block Model y Then Click on Create Block Model Project.
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Click In Following.
Is Puts The Name Of Model (not Necessarily Has What Be The Same Of Project).
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Is Enter The Dimensions y Origin Of Our Model Of Blocks. Is Necessary Know a Priori These
Dimensions. Important Know What The Origin Of X e And Are The Dimensions Minimum Of The
Corresponding Coordinates No Like this For The Origin In Z What Corresponds a The Dimension
Maximum Of The Coordinate (Set In Yes Is Know The Coordinates Of The Centroids o The Of The
Ends Of Block).
Also Is Necessary Know a Priori The Size Of The Blocks y Know The Amount Of Blocks In The
Corresponding Coordinates.
Click In Following.
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Is Has What Select The Standard option y Then Do Click In Following.
Import Of Model Of Block
A Time Finished What Previous Is Ago Click Right In The Standard icon And Then Click on Import
Model.
Mark Choice of Coordinates
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Do Click Right In The Header And Then do Click In Make Faithful Headers. After Of This Verify In
the section of Down What The Variables a Import match The Of Model. In This Case Matter X And
Z Density And Cu.
.
Do Click In Import. Then Appear The Statistics Basic Of Model Min Max y Average Of The Imported
variables).
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A Time Imported The Model For View The Law Of Cu Is Must Do Click Right In Cu y Then Display.
Click In Cell Display De.
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Click In New De.
Is Creates A new Profile What Is Can Call Cu.
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Then it Ago Click In Colour De.
Is Creates A profile Of Colors Called Cu.
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Is Assigned The Colors To Profile Of Colors In AutoFillRange. Then From Law 0 Until The Maximum
y Is Create The Intervals Automatically.
Is Can Manipulate The Colors To Taste Clicking In the Icon To Side Of Color.
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Click In Apply.
T
Apply And Then Ok Until Out.
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For View Is Ago Click In Block Create From Block Model.
Click In Cu And Is Choose The Interval Of Values What Want What Show
Is Recommended No From From 0 y Yes Of 0.00001, Already What Of This Way Eliminate All
The Blocks What Have Law 0 (which Are Tired And We Allows See Our Blocks Of Interest About The
Maximum Put A number Large By Example 123.
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Then Yes Is What Still No Is Can View The Profile Of Copper In The Screen Is Ago Click In Options
3d Work Area Based On Current Block Model Ok
Then Is Ago Click In Workspace Create o Modify Workspace
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Click In New (Intersection Upper left).
Is Choose The option that Is See In the Image.
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Is Ago Click In Following Until The End.
Again Is Ago Click In New But Now Is Choose The Option In the Image.
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Is Choose Block Cave area, Is Adds The Name y Is Ago Click In Following. After Is Close y Save.
Click Right In Block Caving And After In Add Workspace.
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In This Case Is Choose Catalina.
Click Right In Catalina And Is Open.
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Click In New Area
The Name Like Catalina, And Is Creates A profile Initial Display As DISP.
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Is Leave All By Defect.
Then Is Save.
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Footprint Finder
A Time Created The Project E Imported The Model Is Begins By Calculate The FOOTPRINTFINDER
• Build A Line In the Base Of Model Of Blocks.
• Surface construction To From The Line.
• Creation Clipping Polygon representing The Area a Evaluate.
• Script Of Economic model.
• Advanced settings De Of Foot Print Finder.
• Simulate with Footprint Finder.
• Choose Floor.
• Create Clipping Polygon that Defines Area Economic.
• Configure Parameter Of PCBC
• Create A Mesh Of Points Of Extraction.
• Import Point In the Mesh
For Do The Line In The Base Of Model Is Ago Click In View Plan View Looking Down
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Is Tightens The Key Delete Several Times And Then Put 2350 What Is Our Dimension More Low y
Then Is Press The Key “Enter”.
Click In The 2d file (with The Keys Of The Numbers “2” y “3” Is Can View Of Way Automatic In 2d
Or 3d respectively).
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Then Fact The Clip Is Save: Edit Clip Save cliping Boundary.
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Script Model Economic:
2.7 Price
8.5 Cost mine
11 Plant cost
0.4 Cost Of Sale
0.9 Recovery
22.04 F (Factor Of Conversion
45.62 Revenue Factor
For Do The Script Model Economic:
Cu = BlockModel. Model ("Standard", "CU", Column Row Level
RFCU = 45.62
CM = 8.5 CP
= 11
BlockModel. Model ("Standard", "Economic", Column Row Level) =RFCU * CU‐CM‐CP
Is Ago Click In Block Edit Simple Manipulation
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Then it Copy the Values Before Mentioned Click In Excute And At last In All The Blocks Of Model
(The Economic script Can Change Depending on Of The Parameters).
Configuration Of FF2
Is Comes To Configure The Profile of FF2 Do Click In PCBC Project Advance De.
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Click In Generate
Is Choose FF2 (Click In OK). Then Is Close The Tab y Is Open Of New Of This Way Will be shown
The Profile Of FF2.
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Is Set up the Parameters.
(Important In The Locker DOLLAR, Put Economic What Is The Previous Script What Is Had
executed).
Important: Before Of Run FF2, There What Make sure What This Open The Block Caving.
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Is Select FF2. Then Ok.
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Is Select The Clip1 What Is Had Drawn.
Like this Is See The FF2. Is Creates A File called FOOT1, and to The Right Is As Is See Floor To Floor.
What Important Of Archive of Excel Is What Is Can Observe Floor a Floor The Value The Height
And The Area What Has. Of This Way Is Choose The Floor Economic.
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Is To Criteria Of User Which one Floor Choose Knowing that There One What Has 5300 m2 y 19
Musd Less What The Greater. Here Is Shall elect The Floor 2440.
To Choose The Floor Economic Draw Our Cliping (Lay1) Economic Where Is Imported The Points
Of Extraction More Go ahead. By Be The Floor Economic 2440, This Cliping Is Placed 20 m More
Down With This Criteria No Is Loses Mineral.
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Is Save The Clipng Called Lay1, Of The Same Way As Is Have Saved Previously The Cliping.
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Configuration Of Parameters Of PCBC
Before Of Import the Points Of Extraction is Must Set up the Parameters To Use By PCBC.
First it Creates The Variable Of Fine Content By The Blocks. Is Initializes A New variable.
The Value By Defect It'll be 0.3. Then Click In Following.
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Is Initializes The Variable
Click In Ok. With This Is Supposed What All The Blocks Of Model Of Blocks Has 30% Of Fine.
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Is Configured The Parameter General: PCBC Project General Parameters. Is Includes The Perfin.
Then Is Creates The Mixing.
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Then Is Creates The Economic parameter.
Is Creates A Production Block. Is Will What All Has The Same Production Blocks. The Productions
Blocks Serve For Differentiate Sectors Different Of The Mine.
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Is Creates The Way Of Point Of Extraction. Is Will As A cone.
Then In The Same Parameter Xy Curve Is Configured The Profile Of Speeds Of Extraction. The
Previous Supposed What The Point About A 30 Of Extraction Already This Mature y Is Can Get
a Maximum Speed Before On the rise.
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Creation Of Layout
A Time Configured All The Parameters Of PCBC Is Comes To Create The Layout And After Import
The Points Of Extraction.
• Is Configured Advanced De Lay
• 2420 Is Puts Level Of Production. No 2440, Well Yes Is Just There Is Loses Material.
• Offset It's the Deviation In Y Between 2 Ptd Faced In A Same Street.
• Minor Dist Of 2dpt Contiguous In Same Street. Entry Angle
• Brow: Long Of The Punt.
• Major Dist. Between 2 PuHow many Underground Faced
12m 12mm
m 20m
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Is Runs The Layout Generation.
Save
Ok
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Is Choose The Profile
Is Choose The Cliping.
There What Look What All The Clippnig have Points Of Extraction No matter what Exist More.
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A Time Executed Layout Generation Is Has What Modify The File Of Output y Has What
Remain of The Way Of Down.
Of This Way Has What Stay The File Of Output.
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A Time Modified Is Has What Save The PCBC file As Csv.
Import Of Points Of Extraction
Is Ago Click In PCBC Drawpoint Import Draw Point
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Is Add The Parameters Before Configured. And Then Click In Import.
A Time Imported Is Must Save.
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• Oxide y Waste are dilution, Pm And Mx Son Ore And Air Is Puts Not Used.
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Parameters For Pm
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Parameters For Mx
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Parameters For Air
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Parameters For Mx
Generation Of Columns
• Is Select some Points. PCBC Select Drawpoint Selected All
• PCBC Slice File Initialize To New Slice File
• PCBC Slice File Compute Block Fractions
• PCBC Slice File Slice File Report Dump Fraction File
• What Previous Calculated The Fraction of Each Block What Is Within The Geometry Of
The Column.
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A Time Fact What Previous Is Must Save The SliceFile.
• Save Slicefile:
– PCBC SliceFile Currenttosave.
– Is Popularity Pcbcsave. 253 By Nomix. 253
– What Previous Is Ago In The Folder Of Project In the Folder BlockCave
• Is Creates Advanced ProfileLMIX
• Is Put Same Parameters Of Agreement To What What Is Put With FPF For Be Consistent.
• Is Mixture With Laubscher (It Runs PCBC Slice File Mixing Pre‐Vertical Mixing Using
Laubcher MethOds )
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Current To Save.
Is Generates The Advance Proflie LMIX.
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Is Executed according to The Method Of Laubscher.
BHOD, Best Height Economic
Optimal
A Time Done everything What Previous Generate A Advance De BHOD, In The Which one Is
Introduced The Following Parameters:
• HOD_MIN. Minimum Hod What Accept What Have A Point
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• DELH. Difference In Height Maximum What I 'm going To Accept Between A Point
And Their Neighbors (Depends Of Criteria Of Planner Us Use 50 [M])
• HOD_MAX: Height Maximum Of Column Of A point Of Extraction.
• Is Run with PCBC ProductionScheduler Run BestHOD. Surface
delivery Of Outline What Generates BHOD y A report In Excel
Important What In The File BHOD. xls General Is Can Observe The Height of Column Tonnage Law
Dilution etc.
Creation Of Sequence
The Sequence Is Creates To From Of A Line.
PCBC Will Advance This Line In A Some Address y Like this Is Go Creating The Bucket Of Sequence.
For Generate that Bucket Sequence Is Must follow Several Steps.
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Creation y Export of The Line:
Polyline/Contour Line/Status Line
Is Ago The Line Anti‐clockwise y Is Save In MiscLine
Is Must Save The Line : Seq. Asc Must Be Outside Of The Folder BlockCave. It
should be Save In Folder "Santa Catalina
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Is Creates A File Of Excel Called “Sequence” The Which one Is Must Save In The Folder BlockCave
Of The Folder Of Project.
In The Sheet Excel Previous Is Him Says To Program How Is Called The File Where Is Kept The
Attributes Of The Line (seq. asc) y In addition Is Him Gives The Direction of Advance Of The
Sequence.
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Is Generates The Sequence
Click In Cancel
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Ok
Ok
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At last Is See The Sequence In Colors.
In The Previous file Is Creates Automatically The Sequence In Where Is Has Two Columns: A With
The Name Of The Points y Other In Where Is Can Appreciate The Number Of Sequence.
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Is Add The Points And The Sequence Created In The File “Sequence”. Is Adds A Column
TMAXIMO In Where Is Must Put The Tonnage Economic Is Say The Tonnage What Delivery The
BHOD, Copy And Paste y PAST Is Him Add 0.
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2) Add Into the Folder BlockCave, A Prodtons file, Of The Way:
The File Previous Is Copy By What General Of An earlier project, Already What When Is Run The
Program Of Production Is Will rewrite the Values.
Parameters Important Of Prodtons:
In The Sheet Table Is Mark The Periods Of Exploitation The Days What Is Contemplate The Points
Of New extraction What Is Contemplate Add and the Rhythm Of Exploitation required.
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Considerations: About The Tonnage By Period Add a All The Periods The Tonnage In Regime
Already What That Be Determined By The Profile of Speeds Before Configured.
A Time Fact What Previous Is Comes Of The Following Way:
Is Introduces The Directory Of File Buckets The Sheet And in What Row Are The Names Then Is
Brand The Get option Data From Excel.
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Is Brand The Bucket option Type Seq
Then Is They pass the Values In The Same Order What Appear. When it appears Bucket Mane
Sufix Is Must Press Cancel. Is Ago Click In End.
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Then it Recorded The Bucket Data
Bucket Type : Seq
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Then Is Ago What Same for TMAXIMO And PAST
Is Choose Bucket Type BEST_HOD For The Bucket TMAXIMO
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At last With PAST
Is Choose Bucket Type OTHER For The Bucket PAST
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The Last Step Before Of Run The Plan Of Production Assign The Slice File Calculated:
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Is Choose The Fact As The Method Of Laubcher.
Now Is Runs The Plan of Production:
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Press No
Choose Prodtons
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At last You get The Program Of Production. All The Files are registered In The File Prodtons.
The end
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