Advanced Underground Design

Reporting
In Surpac V6.1

July 2008
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 Table of Contents
Underground Design Concepts ...............................................................................................4
Underground Design Reporting ..............................................................................................5
Overview ................................................................................................................................................... 5
Getting Started ......................................................................................................................................... 5
Task: Setting the Profile......................................................................................................................... 5
Task: Activate Underground Design ...................................................................................................... 6
What We Want to Achieve........................................................................................................................ 7
What is Needed ........................................................................................................................................ 8
Step by Step Illustration ............................................................................................................................ 8
Task: Starting with a blank project ......................................................................................................... 8
Task: Create the dataset ..................................................................................................................... 10
Task: Add the Development Types ..................................................................................................... 17
Task: Add the Assumptions ................................................................................................................. 21
Task: Add the Dilution Columns .......................................................................................................... 24
Task: Add the Geo- and Mining-loss Columns .................................................................................... 32
Task: Add the Development Columns ................................................................................................. 39
Task: Add final ROM group and columns ............................................................................................ 47
Task: Create Tonnage Profile in Excel 2003 ....................................................................................... 57
Task: Create Tonnage Profile in Excel 2007 ....................................................................................... 62
Task: Create a fresh table of the data in Excel 2003 and 2007 .......................................................... 66
Task: Create Graph of Tonnage Profile in Excel 2003 ........................................................................ 69
Task: Create Graph of Tonnage Profile in Excel 2007 ........................................................................ 71
Task: Create Grade Profile in Excel 2003 ........................................................................................... 72
Task: Create Grade Profile in Excel 2007 ........................................................................................... 77
Task: Create a fresh table of the data in Excel 2003 and 2007 .......................................................... 81
Task: Create Graph of Grade Profile in Excel 2003 ............................................................................ 87
Task: Create Graph of Grade Profile in Excel 2007 ............................................................................ 89

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Underground Design Concepts
Overview
To create an underground mine design using Surpac requires an understanding of underground mining
terminology and concepts. This section will cover some terms used in this manual and some basic concepts
of underground mine design.

Requirements
Prior to performing the exercises in this chapter, some experience in underground mine design is helpful, but
not required. To create a practical/ optimum mine design and schedule in any software, extensive experience
is required as inputs to the design process and throughout the design process, either by the user and/or by
management, control personnel and the project team. Mine Planning Software must enable mine planning
personnel and cannot replace them.

Terminology

• Centreline – a line which represents the centre of a drive. The centreline can be used to create solid
models, or outlines for plan view plots. Note that wall period polygons created in Minesched is
created using the height and width or string profile specified in the profile definition.
• Drive – a tunnel excavation, also known as a drift which is usually on strike or over the length of the
ore body from where access can be established to the ore body.
• Stope – a 3-dimensional excavation (usually ore) which is to be mined or caved, depending on the
planning scenario. Stopes in reef and tabular type mining methods are usually relatively consistent in
the height of the mining cut or excavation over large areas. A single stope where a single mining
crew works, can also be referred to as a panel.

Summary
You should now be familiar with the concepts and terms used for the underground design process in Surpac.
Please review this chapter or consult the Online Reference Manual if you are unclear about the definitions
used in this section. The next section demonstrates the steps involved in creating a reuseable template for
calculating ROM Tons.

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Underground Design Reporting
Overview
This particular example uses the minesched_bm_period_detailed.csv report generated by MineSched and
adds additional columns to assist the user in calculating the ROM tons.

Getting Started
Files used in this tutorial are stored in the folder:
<installation directory>\demo_data\tutorials\advanced_underground_design_reporting

where <installation directory> is the directory in which Surpac was installed.

Task: Setting the Profile

1. Right-click in the blank area to the right of the menus at the top of the screen.
Select the “advanced underground design” profile as shown below.

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Task: Activate Underground Design
1. Click on the Advanced Underground Design toolbar button.

This will activate the module which will appear as an autohide slide bar docked onto the right hand side of
the screen. There are two slide-out panels that make up the content of the Underground Design module and
both are used in conjunction with each other. You can open the Progress Map (Solution Explorer) by
hovering over the ‘Progress Map’ button and open the Design Flow-chart by hovering over the ‘Design Flow’
button on the vertical toolbar on the right. The Properties Pane is used to display the characteristics of the
highlighted item in either of the two panels.

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What We Want to Achieve
The aim of this tutorial is to illustrate the method used to distinguish between ore and waste tons and the
calculation thereof. The report generated in this exercise would be similar to the image below:

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What is Needed
The minimum data needed includes minesched_bm_period_detailed.csv and design_phase3.str.
This file is included under the <installation directory>\demo_data\tutorials\
advanced_underground_design_reporting folder where <installation directory> is the directory in which
Surpac was installed.

Step by Step Illustration

Task: Starting with a blank project

When Surpac and Underground Design are running for the first time, no solutions are available to open.
1. Create a new solution by clicking on the first icon that says ‘New Solution’.
A form will then pop up to allow the user to enter the name of the solution.

Call the new Solution ‘AdvancedUndergroundDesign’ as shown.

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2. Right-click the solution and choose Add Project from the context menu.

This will activate the ‘New Project’ form.

Note: The name of the project should be as descriptive as possible as this name will appear in the file name when the
project gets imported and exported later on. In this case we can call the project ‘Reporting’.

3. Enter the name of the project and then set the working directory by clicking on the browse button.

It is suggested that the demo_data\tutorials\advanced_underground_design_reporting folder is chosen.

This is the folder that contains the files that will be used in this tutorial.
4. Click OK.
The progress map is populated with a project node containing Profile Definitions, References,
Design Charts and Dataset sub-nodes.
5. Click on the project (Reporting), which is the tree node just above the Profile Definitions tree node.
That will then automatically change the working directory to the relevant directory in Surpac:

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Task: Create the dataset
1. In the Progress Map, right-click on the Datasets node and choose Add Dataset.

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2. In the Property Grid, go to the Csv Columns property and click on the browse button.

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Doing this will open the Collection Editor form which allows you to specify the format of your input data.
The CSV columns refer to the data source we are using to apply our formulas to. In this case it is the Block
model report generated in MineSched. This file is included in this tutorial folder and is called
minesched_bm_period_detailed.csv.
3. On the Collection Editor form, click on the Add button to add the first column (Period Number) and
change the properties similar to the properties below.

Note: Here the word PeriodNumber is only for our own reference and does not have to be identical to the word Period
Number in the Block Model Report. However the Column Number property is important to identify the position of
the column.

4. Click on the Add button again to add the second column (Start Date) and change the properties
similar to the properties below.

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5. Click on the Add button again to add the third column (End Date) and change the properties similar to
the properties shown below.

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6. Click on the Add button again to add the next column (Heading Name) and change the properties
similar to the properties shown below.

Note: Here the Heading Name property is set to True, where the rest of the columns it is set to False.

7. Keep adding these columns until all the columns in our Block Model Report are added. Make sure all
the Heading Name properties are set to False and the Column Number property refers to the
appropriate column number in the CSV file. The Column Number increments automatically and if
these columns are added in the correct sequence, the it does not have to be changed by the user.

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8. Click OK to go back to the Dataset properties.
9. Change the First Row Number of Data to 13.
This is the row number where the actual data starts and ensures the header data is not included in your
regenerated report.

10. Change the Report File property by browsing for the minesched_bm_period_detailed.csv file
included in this folder.

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11. Change the Design File property by browsing for the design_phase3.str file included in this folder.

This file is optional and is only needed for automatically retrieving dimensions of the development types. The
design file can be seen here in Surpac graphics.

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Task: Add the Development Types
1. Open the Development Types Collection Editor Form by clicking on the browse button of the
Development types property.

A Collection Editor Form is displayed which allows you to specify the filter that qualifies the development
end as a specific development type.

2. Click the Add button to identify the first development type and change the Filter property to *decline*.
3. Change the Name property to Decline.

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4. Click on the H and W button to automatically retrieve the dimensions from the design file.

Note: As the Design File is an optional field, the Height and Width properties can also be entered manually.

5. Click on the Test Filter button.

Note: Displayed is a list of the development ends in the CSV file that qualifies as a Decline, in other words the Heading
Name column contains the word *decline*. If there are no results, keep on changing the filter until the required
number of headings is listed.

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6. Click the Add button to add the next development type (Workshop) and change the properties similar
to that in the image below.

Note: It is advised that the Test Filter button is used regularly to ensure the Filter property adequately identifies all the
headings that qualify as in this case a Workshop.

7. Click the Add button to add the next development type (HWAccess) and change the properties similar
to that in the image below.

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8. Click the Add button to add the next development type (Orepass) and change the properties similar to
that in the image below.

9. Click the Add button to add the next development type (Crosscuts_waste) and change the properties
similar to that in the image below.

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10. Click the Add button to add the next development type (Crosscuts_ore) and change the properties
similar to that in the image below, then click OK.

Task: Add the Assumptions

Assumptions are constant values that can be used in the formula editor to calculate additional column values
and are included in the final results as a list to ensure audit ability.
1. Open the Assumptions Collection Editor Form by clicking on the browse button of the
Assumptions property.
A Collection Editor Form is displayed which allows the user to specify what these constant values
(assumptions) will be.
2. Click the Add button to specify the first Assumption.

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3. Click the Add button to specify the first Assumption (Miningloss) and change the properties similar to
those below. Our Mining Loss Value is 0.05 (5%).

Note: These values are numeric values. Care must be taken in the formula definition to interpret assumptions correctly. It is
not recommended to use percentage values but fractions. (20% would be entered as 0.2).

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4. Click the Add button to add the next Assumption (SG) and change the properties similar to that in the
image below.

5. Click the Add button to add the next Assumption (Dilution) and change the properties similar to that in
the image below.

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6. Click the Add button to add the last Assumption (Geoloss) and change the properties similar to that in
the image below.

Task: Add the Dilution Columns

1. Open the Groups Collection Editor Form by clicking on the browse button of the Groups property.

A Collection Editor Form is displayed. This form allows the user to add a list of Groups and a list of
Columns under every group. A typical example of a group is Dilution, and a typical example of a column is

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Volume, Tons or Content. Each Development Type can then have a different formula specified to
calculate the value to be assigned to every column.
2. Click on the Add button to add the first group.

3. Change the Name property to Dilution.

4. Expand the tree by clicking on the + in the tree view on the left and click on the Columns tree node.

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5. Click on the Add button to add the first column of the Dilution group.

6. Change the Name property to Volume, and browse for a color.

The header of this column will be displayed in this color in our new report in order to allow for easier
distinction between groups and columns.

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7. To display all the Development Types for this column, expand the tree by clicking on the + in the tree
view of the Dilution Volume node. Then click on the Crosscuts_ore node.

Note: A list of all the Development types is added under every column and allows for the user to have a unique formula
for every Development type under every Column. The top five Development types are developed off reef and
therefore do not have any Dilution. We will leave these Development types’ formulas blank.

8. In the property window, activate the Formula Editor by clicking on the browse button of the Formula
property.
9. On the Formula Editor form, drag or double-click the elements from the controls on top (Arithmetic
Operations, Assumptions, Dev Types, MineSched Report Columns and MineSmart Report
Columns) to the textbox below to form the formula as displayed below and click OK.

Note: Dilution_Volume = Width * Height * Length * Dilution_Fraction.

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10. In the Collection Editor form, click OK and then click on the Reporting button (first from the right)
above the Progress Map.

The report is then generated taking the above assumptions, formulas and the original report file into account.
On the first sheet is the original report.

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11. Click on the second sheet named Data.
On the first few rows are our Assumptions. Depending on the amount of assumptions that was added, our
data starts directly after that.

12. Scroll over to the far right of the Data sheet. Here we can clearly see the results of the formula we
added for the Crosscut_ore development type.

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13. In Underground Design, open the Groups Collection Editor form by clicking on the browse button of
the Groups property.
14. Click on the Dilution > Columns tree node and click on the Add button to add another Dilution
column.

15. Change the Name property to Tons and change the Color, preferably the same color as the Volume.

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16. Skip the other Development Types which have no Dilution and click on the Crosscuts_ore treenode.

17. Open the Formula Editor form for the Dilution Tons of the Crosscuts_ore by clicking on the browse
button of the Formula property and change the formula by dragging the elements into the formula text
field below and then press OK.

Note: Dilution_Tons = Dilution_Volume * SG.

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Task: Add the Geo- and Mining-loss Columns
1. In the Collection Editor form, click on the Dilution tree node and click on the Add button to add a
group.

2. In the Group Properties, change the Name property to GeoAndMiningLoss, expand the treenode
and click on the Columns tree node.

Note: It is important not to use characters (-, +, * or /) that might be mistaken for mathematical or arithmetic operators.

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3. Click on the Add button to add the first column.

4. In the Report Column properties, change the Name property to Volume, and choose any color for the
Color property.

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5. To display all the Development Types for this column, expand the tree by clicking on the + in the tree
view of the GeoAndMiningLoss Volume node. Then click on the Crosscuts_ore node.

Note: Once again, the top five Development types are off-reef development and therefore do not have any geological or
mining loss. We will leave these Development types’ formulas blank.

6. Open the Formula Editor form by clicking on the browse button of the Formula property and change
the formula by dragging the elements into the formula text field below and then press OK.

Note: The formula to calculate Geo and MiningLoss Volume = Width * Height * Length * (MiningLoss + Geoloss)

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7. Click on the GeoAndMiningLoss > Columns tree node and click on the Add button to add another
GeoAndMiningLoss column.

8. Change the Name property to Tons and change the Color, preferably the same color as the Volume.

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9. Skip the other Development Types which have no Geological loss or Mining loss and click on the
Crosscuts_ore treenode.

10. Open the Formula Editor form for the GeoAndMiningloss Tons of the Crosscuts_ore by clicking on
the browse button of the Formula property and change the formula by dragging the elements into the
formula text field below and then press OK.

Note: GeoAndMiningloss_Tons = GeoAndMiningloss _Volume * SG.

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11. Click on the GeoAndMiningLoss > Columns tree node and click on the Add button to add another
GeoAndMiningLoss column.

12. Change the Name property to Content and change the Color, preferably the same color as the Tons
and the Volume.

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13. Skip the other Development Types which have no Geological loss or Mining loss and click on the
Crosscuts_ore treenode.

14. Open the Formula Editor form for the GeoAndMiningloss Content of the Crosscuts_ore by clicking
on the browse button of the Formula property and change the formula by dragging the elements into
the formula text field below and then press OK.

Note: GeoAndMiningloss_Content = GeoAndMiningloss _Tons * Grade_Average.

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Task: Add the Development Columns
1. In the Collection Editor form, click on one of the other main group nodes (Dilution or
GeoAndMiningLoss) and click on the Add button to add another group.

2. In the Group Properties, change the Name property to Development, expand the treenode and click
on the Columns tree node.

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3. Click on the Add button to add the first column.

4. In the Report Column properties, change the Name property to Volume, and choose any color for the
Color property. To display all the Development Types for this column, expand the tree by clicking on
the + in the tree view of the Development Volume node.

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5. Click on the Decline node.

6. Open the Formula Editor form by clicking on the browse button of the Formula property and change
the formula by dragging the elements into the formula text field below and then press OK.

Note: The formula to calculate any Volume = Width * Height * Length

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7. Now click on the Workshop node of the Development Volume tree node

8. Open the Formula Editor form by clicking on the browse button of the Formula property and change
the formula by dragging the elements into the formula text field below and then press OK.

Note: This formula is identical to that of the Decline. Alternative to dragging values into the formula text box, this formula
can be copied (ctrl + c) from the Decline and pasted (ctrl + v) into this formula textbox.

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9. Repeat step 7 and 8 for HWAccess, Orepass ,Crosscuts_waste and Crosscut_ore.
10. Click on the Development > Columns tree node and click on the Add button to add another
Development column.

11. Change the Name property to Tons and change the Color, preferably the same color as the Volume.
To display all the Development Types for this column, expand the tree by clicking on the + in the tree
view of the Development Tons node

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12. Click on the Decline node.

13. Open the Formula Editor form by clicking on the browse button of the Formula property and change
the formula by dragging the elements into the formula text field below and then press OK.

14. Do step 12 and 13 for all the Development types (Workshop, HWAccess, Orepass,
Crosscuts_waste and Crosscut_ore).
15. Click on the Development > Columns tree node and click on the Add button to add another
Development column.

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16. Change the Name property to Content and change the Color, preferably the same color as the Tons
and the Volume.

17. Click on the Decline node and open the Formula Editor form by clicking on the browse button of the
Formula.

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18. Change the formula by dragging the elements into the formula text field below and then press OK.

19. Click on the Workshop node and open the Formula Editor form again by clicking on the browse
button of the Formula property. Then enter the same formula as step 18 and repeat this for all the
other development types (HWAccess, Orepass, Crosscuts_waste and Crosscuts_ore).

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Task: Add final ROM group and columns
1. In the Collection Editor form, click on one of the other main group nodes (Dilution,
GeoAndMiningLoss or Development) and click on the Add button to add another group.

2. In the Group Properties, change the Name property to ROM, expand the treenode and click on the
Columns tree node.

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3. Click on the Add button to add the first column.

4. In the Report Column properties, change the Name property to Volume, and choose any color for the
Color property. To display all the Development Types for this column, expand the tree by clicking on
the + in the tree view of the ROM > Volume node.

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5. Click on the Decline node.

Note: The ROM Volume formula for all the development types will be the same.

6. Open the Formula Editor form by clicking on the browse button of the Formula property and change
the formula by dragging the elements into the formula text field below and then press OK.

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7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 for all the development types.

8. Click on the ROM > Columns tree node and click on the Add button to add another ROM column.

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9. Change the Name property to Tons and change the Color, preferably the same color as the Volume.
To display all the Development Types for this column, expand the tree by clicking on the + in the tree
view of the ROM > Tons node.

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10. Click on the Decline node.

Note: The ROM Tons formula for all the development types will be the same.

11. Open the Formula Editor form by clicking on the browse button of the Formula property and change
the formula by dragging the elements into the formula text field below and then press OK.

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12. Repeat steps 10 and 11 for all the development types.

13. Click on the ROM > Columns tree node and click on the Add button to add another ROM column.

14. Change the Name property to Content and change the Color, preferably the same color as the
Volume. To display all the Development Types for this column, expand the tree by clicking on the + in
the tree view of the ROM > Content node.

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15. Click on the Decline node.

Note: The ROM Content formula for all the development types will be the same.

16. Open the Formula Editor form by clicking on the browse button of the Formula property and change
the formula by dragging the elements into the formula text field below and then press OK.

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17. Repeat steps 15 and 16 for all the development types.

18. In the Collection Editor form, click OK and then click on the Reporting button (first from the right)
above the Progress Map.

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The report is then generated taking the above assumptions, formulas and the original report file into account.

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Task: Create Tonnage Profile in Excel 2003
1. In the generated report, go to the Data sheet and select all the data excluding the Assumptions.
Then go to the Data menu item and select PivotTable and PivotChart Report.

2. Accept the default values and click Next.

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3. The data we selected will be used, so in Step 2 of 3 of the wizard, click Next.

4. To create the pivot table in a new worksheet, click Finish.

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5. In the pivot table sheet, select the PeriodNumber field from the Pivot Table Field List box and drag it
to the Column fields area.

6. Select the DevType field from the Pivot Table Field List box and drag it to the Row fields area.

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7. Select the ROM Tons field from the Pivot Table Field List box and drag it to the Data Items area.

8. To change the count of the Tons to a summary column, select the Field Settings from the Pivot
Table toolbox.

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9. Change the Summarise by field to Sum, click OK and close the pivot table listbox and toolbox.

The completed pivot table must look similar to the one displayed below.

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Task: Create Tonnage Profile in Excel 2007
1. In the generated report, go to the Data sheet and select all the data excluding the Assumtions.

2. In Excel 2007 activate the Insert ribbon and click on the Pivot Table button.

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3. Create the Table on a new Worksheet by accepting the default values and clicking OK.

4. From the Pivot Table Field list, drag the Period Number field that should appear on top of the list
into the Column Labels area.

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5. From the Pivot Table Field list, drag the DevType field into the Row Labels area.

6. From the Pivot Table Field list, drag the ROM Tons field into the Values area.

Note: The summary column is by default a count, however we would like to calculate the sum of each period.

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7. Click on the Count of ROM Tons in the Values area and click on Value Field Settings.

8. In the Summarize by tab change the Summarize value field by to Sum.

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Task: Create a fresh table of the data in Excel 2003 and 2007
1. Start copying the pivot table data into a new table below the table in order to create a clean set of
values for the graph by moving focus to a cell a few rows below the table. Type ‘=’ and then select the
first cell of the pivot table (A6).

Note: This section is illustrated in Excel 2007, however this is done identically in Excel 2003.

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2. Drag the formula of this cell down until all the development types are copied.

3. Also drag across until all the summary values are copied to the new rows.

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4. Manually enter the first two period numbers in column B and C.

5. Drag the rest of the periods over until the last period is included.

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Task: Create Graph of Tonnage Profile in Excel 2003
1. Select all the new data and on the Insert menu item, click on Chart.

2. Select a line chart and click Next.

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3. The data of the chart has already been selected, so in step 2 of 4, click on Finish.

The completed Tonnage Profile must be similar to the image below.

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Task: Create Graph of Tonnage Profile in Excel 2007
1. Select all the new data and on the Insert ribbon, click on the 2-D Line chart.

2. A graph of the Sum of ROM Tons should look similar to the image below.

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Task: Create Grade Profile in Excel 2003
The method we will use to calculate the Grade is Content/Tons. We have a sheet with the Tons, so now we
will create a sheet with the Content.
1. In the generated report, go to the Data sheet and select all the data excluding the Assumptions.
Then go to the Data menu item and select PivotTable and PivotChart Report.

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2. Accept the default values and click Next.

3. The data you selected will be used, so in Step 2 of 3 of the wizard, click Next.

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4. To create the pivot table in a new worksheet, click Finish.

5. In the pivot table sheet, select the PeriodNumber field from the Pivot Table Field List box and drag it
to the Column fields area.

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6. Select the DevType field from the Pivot Table Field List box and drag it to the Row fields area.

7. Select the ROM Content field from the Pivot Table Field List box and drag it to the Data Items area.

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8. To change the count of the Content to a summary column, select the Field Settings from the Pivot
Table toolbox and change Summarize by: to Sum.

9. Click OK and close the pivot table listbox and toolbox.

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Task: Create Grade Profile in Excel 2007
The method we will use to calculate the Grade is Content/Tons. We have a sheet with the Tons, so now we
will create a sheet with the Content.
1. In the generated report, go to the Data sheet and select all the data excluding the Assumptions.

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2. Activate the Insert ribbon and click on the Pivot Table button.

3. Create the Table on a new Worksheet by accepting the default calues and clicking OK.

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4. From the Pivot Table Field list, drag the Period Number field that should appear on top of the list
into the Column Labels area.

5. From the Pivot Table Field list, drag the DevType field into the Row Labels area.

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6. From the Pivot Table Field list, drag the ROM Content field into the Values area.

7. Click on the Count of ROM Content in the Values area and click on Value Field Settings.

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8. In the Summarize by tab change the Summarize value field by to Sum.

Task: Create a fresh table of the data in Excel 2003 and 2007
1. Start copying the pivot table data into a new table below the table in order to create a clean set of
values for the graph by moving focus to a cell a few rows below the table. Type ‘=’ and then select the
first cell of the pivot table (A6).

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 Note: This section is illustrated in Excel 2007, however this is done identically in Excel 2003.

2. Drag the formula of this cell down until all the development types are copied.

3. Also drag across until all the summary values are copied to the new table.

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4. Manually enter the first two period numbers.

5. Drag the rest of the values over until the last period is included.

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6. In Cell A14, enter the name Content.

7. In Cell A23, enter the name Grade.

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8. In Cell below that, type =A15.

Note: The only development type that will have a grade, is the Crosscuts_ore. The rest are all waste.

The formula to calculate the Grade is Tons/Content. We will use the Tons data from the Tons datasheet
and the Content data from the Content sheet to calculate the Grade.
9. In cell next to Crosscuts_ore, type the formula =IF(tons!B15>0,B15/tons!B15,0).

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10. Drag this formula over to the end of the 48 periods.

11. Enter the 48 periods on the row above the grade.

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Task: Create Graph of Grade Profile in Excel 2003
1. Select all the new data and on the Insert menu item, click on Chart.

2. Select a line chart and click Next.

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3. The data of the chart has already been selected, so in step 2 of 4, click on Finish.

The completed Grade profile must be similar to the image below.

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Task: Create Graph of Grade Profile in Excel 2007
1. Select all the new data and on the Insert ribbon, click on the 2-D Line Chart.

The completed Grade profile must be similar to the image below.

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