Minescape User’s Guide

The aim of this manual is to provide you with an understanding of basic

Minescape concepts and to explain the terminology that is specific to
Minescape, and in some cases, mine planning in general. All Minescape
users will benefit from reading this manual. If you are using Minescape for
the first time, it is important that you read (and understand the content of)
this manual.
This manual is an entry point into the Minescape documentation set. You will
be directed elsewhere for additional information once a concept or topic has
been introduced.
This manual assumes that you have a reasonable knowledge of computing
concepts and terminology, and mining concepts and terminology.

IMPORTANT: The Minescape User’s guide is currently under development. It may

be incomplete in part and may contain some inaccuracies.

You will notice as you proceed through the User’s Guide that there are
various buttons which allow you to navigate through the manual. The
following buttons are included as navigational aids:
❏ Home returns you to the overall User’s Guide Contents
❏ Contents returns you to the individual chapter’s Contents
❏ Glossary takes you to the Glossary of Terms
❏ Index takes you to the Index.
❏ take you forward or backward one page
❏ Catalogue on the Contents pages returns you to the catalogue of
on-line manuals.

To proceed, click here Contents Index

MTDR0021.013
Feb 2001
Copyright information
 Copyright 1998-2001 Mincom Limited.
All rights reserved.
No part of this document may be reproduced, transferred, sold, or otherwise
disposed of, without the written permission of Mincom Limited.
Trademark information
Company and product names have been used for identification purposes only.
Mincom Limited has made every reasonable effort to list all trademarks
mentioned in this document. If any errors or omissions have occurred, these will
be corrected in the next issue of this document.
HP-GL, HP-GL/2 and PaintJet are registered trademarks of Hewlett-Packard
Company.
IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
Mincom, Minescape, Minos, Magicad, Minestar, Miner2, Geodas2, Geolog, and
the Mincom and Minescape logos, are trademarks of Mincom Limited.
Motif is a trademark of Open Systems Foundation, Inc.
PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc.
Silicon Graphics is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Sun Workstation is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
UNIX is a registered trademark of X/Open Co. Ltd.
XVision is a registered trademark of VisionWare Ltd.
Acrobat is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc.
Netscape is a registered trademark of Netscape Communications Corporation.
Oracle is a registered trademark of the Oracle Corporation.
Microsoft is a registered trademark of the Microsoft Corporation.