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Mine Planning and Design Series-Australia
Mine Planning and Design Series-Australia
Mine Planning and Design Series-Australia
Mine Planning and Design Series – Online - Spanish Interpretation- Mountain Time 8:30AM-5:00PM – Suitable for Africa PM
Registration PD Single Course Combined Five Weeks
Course Name Course Component Dates
Closing Date Hours Fee Course Fee Series Fee
Drillholes to Block Model MINP 401-Surpac - Resource Modeling - 5 days May 6-10, 2024 April 22 40 CA$4,500 - -
MINP 101-Whittle Core and Adv. - 5 days May 20-24, 2024 May 4 40 CA$4,500
Robust Strategic Mine
CA$6,500
Planning and Optimization
MINP 102-Whittle + Isight - Advanced - 3 days May 28-30, 2024 May 4 24 CA$3,000
MINP 301-MineSched Core and Adv - 5 days June 17-21, 2024 June 3 40 CA$4,500
Surface Mine Production
CA$6,500
Scheduling - Tactical Planning
MINP 302-Advanced MineSched + Isight - 3 days July 23-25, 2024 June 3 24 CA$3,000
Simulation of Mining Haulage MINP 501-Simulation Modeling using Arena - 5 days Dec. 2-6, 2024 Nov 18 40 CA$3,500 - -
Robust Mine MINP 302- MineSched Open Pit - Core April 17-19, 2024 - 3 Days Apr. 1, 2024 AU$4,500
Perth,
Planning and AU$10,500
Australia Optimization MINP 102-Whittle + Isight – Advanced April 22-26, 2024 - 5 days Apr. 1, 2024 AU$6,800
New Face-To-Face and Online Courses will be Offered in Second Half of 2024
MINP 102 – Robust Strategic Mine Outcomes of the course include: Day 1
Planning - Advanced GEOVIA • How to carry out strategic mine plan within designed Whittle Lab07 - Cut-off Grade Optimization
Whittle™ and SIMULIA Isight™ final pit limits, push-backs, and year-end designed pits. • Cut-off Optimization - Lane’s Theory
The life-of-mine plan determines the order of extraction • Understand cut-off optimization • Cut-off Optimization – Maximizing Profit
of materials and their destinations over the mine-life. • Understand Lane’s Theory o Mining, mill, and market limited cut-offs
The course covers advanced strategic mine planning • Carry out cut-off optimization using strategic o Cut-off optimization to balance mining and
techniques using GEOVIA Whittle and SIMULIA stockpiles and cut-of Type II in Whittle processing
Isight. o Cut-off optimization to balance mining and market
• Advanced simultaneous optimization (SIMO)
The following topics are presented in this course: cut- o Cut-off optimization to balance processing and
off grade optimization and Lane’s theory; simultaneous • CAPEX optimization
market
optimization (SIMO); multi-mine multi-process • Calculate sensitivities to develop risk reduction • Cut-off Optimization – Maximizing NPV
production scheduling, automation and parametric strategies
design using SIMULIA Isight. o Maximize the difference between present values of
• Understand and execute Sim-flow in Isight the remaining reserves
Integration of SIMULIA Isight with GEOVIA Whittle • Visualize Sim-flow results o Concept of increments in cut-off optimization
allow mine planners to run hundreds of scenarios within
one project in a short period of time. Isight is a Process • Evaluate design alternatives o Compaction of grades, tonnage, and increments
Integration and Design Optimization (PIDO) software • Create Sim-flow to capture a process, by integrating o Defining grade ranges for strategic stockpiles
framework, which enables various applications to be various software (Whittle and Isight) o Multi-element stockpiles
easily integrated. With Isight you can create flexible • Perform design optimization o Use of Profit mode in cut-off optimization
simulation process flows to automate the exploration of
• Gain Design Space understanding • Revisit: how to decide on ore selection methods
design alternatives and identification of optimal
performance parameters. This course comprehensively • Use various techniques such as DOE, Optimization, • Section A: Cut-offs
covers the Design and Runtime Gateways along with Monte Carlo etc. in Isight o Ore Selection by Cut-off and Cut-off Calculation
several fundamental components, exposing users to the • Robust strategic mine planning - Simulia Isight o The Formula for a Cut-over
ways in which a workflow can be built in Isight and the o Multiple Processing Methods
ways in which the design space can be explored. • Integrate Simulia Isight and Geovia Whittle
o Cut-offs with Multiple Elements
We present an approach on how to quantify and manage • Hill of value climbing concepts
o Ranked Cut-offs
geological and grade uncertainty using Whittle and • How to control highly variable input parameters o Cut-offs, Cut-overs, and Cut-off Scaling
Isight. The course complements theory with • Multi-mine production scheduling
comprehensive instructions and hands-on experience • Other methods: Cash-Flows, Value Mode, Profit Mode
completing two projects using GEOVIA Whittle • Feeding multi-process plants
Whittle Lab08 - Simultaneous Optimization (SIMO)
strategic mine planning software and SIMULIA Isight • Managing the risk associated with grade uncertainty
• Introduction to simultaneous optimization
process automation tool. Comparative analysis of • Quantify the Impact of geological and grade
different production scenarios, stockpiling, cutoff • How SIMO works
uncertainty on pit limits and production scheduling
optimization, SIMO, multi-mine and their impacts on • Integrating scheduling, blending, stockpiling, and cutoff
the bottom line of the mining business is illustrated. • Allowing for underground mining
• Advanced optimization control
Participants carry out strategic planning of iron ore, • Surface and underground transition o Optimization tab
gold-copper, and polymetallic (zinc, lead, silver, • Iron Ore, Gold-Copper, poly-metallic projects work o Blend bins tab
copper) case studies.
o Manual versus automatic bins
MINP 102 – Robust Strategic Mine Planning and Optimization
Advanced GEOVIA Whittle™ and SIMULIA Isight™
o Stockpiles tab • Create a Sim-flow to capture a process • Reduce design cycle time through integrating workflow
o Comparative analysis of value generated by SIMO • How to control highly variable input parameters into • Establishing a final pit-shell under grade uncertainty
• Simultaneous Optimization projects • Equi-probable realizations of grade within the orebody
o CAPEX Optimization process • Integrate GEOVIA’s Whittle SIMO with SIMULIA’s • Optimal pit for Krig, E-type models
o Use additional capacity at a set cost per unit optimization toolbox
• Optimal pit for P90 & P10 realizations
o Purchase additional mining and processing capacity • Assure stability of results using controllable variables
• Impact of grade uncertainty on the final pit limit
o Use period validation to control additional limits against uncertain environmental variables
• Quantifying the Impact of grade uncertainty on
o Simultaneous Reporting • Controllable variables
scheduling
o Report CAPEX limits and costs o Push-back selection
• Final pit limit in the presence of grade uncertainty
o SIMO spreadsheet reports o Mining direction
o Mill capacity Day 4
o SIMO with Mining Recovery and Dilution
o Specific errors and warnings o Mining capacity Whittle Lab11 - Multi-Mine Multi-Process
Day 2 • Environmental variables Optimization
o Commodity price • Introduction multi-mine multi-process optimization
ISIGHT Lab09 – Introduction to Isight
o Mining costs • Creating a Multi-Mine Model
• What is Isight?
o Recoveries • Merging multiple block models in one project
• The Design gateway o Processing costs • Mining limits applied to multiple mines
• The Runtime gateway o Slope stability • Advanced mine scheduling
• Using post-processing tools o Resources • Mining limits on individual mines
• Accessing the design gateway • Determine robust & optimal values for numerous • Prioritize sequence of mines
• Adding an Excel component to the sim process flow schedules
• Prioritize sequence of mines
• Adding a loop component to the model • Whittle SIMO – Final optimization of schedule using
• Multi-mine multi-process optimization
• Configuring the executable output of Isight Analysis
• Dry and wet separation streams processes
• Publishing a component • Production scale that reacts well to changing parameters
• Complex processing methods
• Automate a series of functions to create a sim-flow Heavy blocks and pit optimization
o Separation
• Add components to a sim-flow • Exclusion polygons and pit optimization
o Element extraction different stages
• Set up the core component Day 3 o Different selling costs
• Configure components to pass data to/from each other • Redirect ore to processes that are not full
Whittle Exercise 4 – Gold- Copper – Cut-off
• Execute a Sim-flow Optimization • Multiple/alternative processing streams
• Visualize Sim-flow results • Multiple/alternative products
Whittle Exercise 5 – Gold- Copper – SIMO
• Evaluate design alternatives • A complex mine logistics example
• Handling files in Isight Whittle Lab10 - Managing Risk and Grade
Uncertainty • Manipulate the multi-pit sequences
o Configuring file parameters
• Grade and Geological uncertainty • Maximize NPV by multi-process profit mode
o Isight results database
• Use Isight and windows command line for process • Lessons learnt from optimizing multi-mine
automation and simulation • Wrap up and conclusion for the course
MINP 201 – Open Pit Mine and Waste Dump Design
GEOVIA Surpac™
MINP 201 – Open Pit Mine and Waste Dump Design
GEOVIA Surpac™
MINP 201 – Open Pit Mine and Waste • Understand haul road design • Determine bearing and distance between two points
• Use year-end surfaces in pit design • Select mode to break, join, and renumber segments
Dump Design – GEOVIA Surpac™
• Create road designs incorporating super-elevation • Use String/Object/Cloud mode to delete and clean strings
Open Pit Mine and Waste Dump Design is a four-day
• Create road designs using vehicle velocities • Use String/Object/Cloud to renumber a string
course designed for mine planners, mining engineers,
and geologist who are responsible for activities that • Create simple dam and dyke designs • String tools
require them to design and manage pits, ramps, • Gridding and contouring of surface data o Create toe/crest line types/ user profiles
switchbacks, slots, and waste dumps. It is ideally suited • Generating bench plan views and reports o Create boundary polygons
to those from industry who wish to gain a more in depth • Block model tonnage and grade calculations o Creating strings for pit design
knowledge of modern mine planning and design theory • Cut and fill volume calculations • The Move tool
and software tools. • Design based on loading and hauling equipment o Move data along an axis
The participants will complete a pit-design project • Define Bench geometry as a function of equipment specs o Move data in a plane
during the course. The course covers open pit design • Design of toes, crests, ramps, switchbacks and slots o Move data in three dimensions
terminology, impact of loading and hauling equipment • Create a simple pit design
• Define berm width, pit slope angle and batter angle
on pit and waste dump design, working bench and o Managing data in layers
safety berm geometry, haul road parameters and • Create final pit designs and surfaces from the designs
o Creating a boundary string between two DTM
geometric pit design. • Obtain volumes, tonnages and grades reported by bench
o Calculating cut and fill volume using DTM surfaces
Prior to engaging in pit design, the course reviews • Design variable pit slopes
o Calculate a volume for a solid model
principles and fundamental concepts in creating points, • Handle multi-benching
o Clip data by a boundary
strings, and triangulations; generations of plans and • Manage single-pit splitting to multi-pits
• Produce a plot of a pit using Auto-plot
sections and tools required in pit design. In addition, • Design variable pit slopes based on rock-types
surface and solid modeling for the purpose of open pit Day 2
• Design waste dumps
design is reviewed and practiced. Pit Geometry
Day 1
The course includes a project for top-down and bottom- • Basic bench geometry
up pit design guided by year-end surfaces generated in Introduction to SURPAC for pit design
• The pit expansion process
a life-of-mine Whittle project. The project starts from • SURPAC data types
the final optimal pit shell, intermediate pits shells, and • Pit slope geometry
• Function-centric and data-centric operations
the long-term schedule generated in Whittle. It covers • Final pit slope angles
• Strings
topics on how to choose the required parameters such • Plan representation of bench geometry
as berm width, variable pit slope angle, and batter angle o String data hierarchy
• Geometric sequencing
to achieve a desired pit and dump design. The project o Description fields
o Frontal cuts
continues with creating surface triangulations from the o Data numbering and ranges
o Drive-by cuts
pit design, obtaining volumes, tonnages and grades o String directions
o Parallel cuts
reported by bench, rock type and grade range from the o String file structure
o Minimum required operating room for parallel cuts
designed pit. • Planes
o Cut sequencing
Outcomes of the course include: o Active plane
• Open Pit Terminology & Calculations
• Understand pit design parameters & components o Planes projection distance
o Bench Face, Crest, Toe
• Understand pit design theory o Moving between planes
o Bench Height and Width
o Moving between planes in reverse view
• Create detailed pit and dump designs o Berm, Batter Angel, Bank Width
o Changing the viewing corridor
• Use optimal pit shells in pit design
MINP 201 – Open Pit Mine and Waste Dump Design
GEOVIA Surpac™
SURPAC Tools for Pit Design o Create a DTM of a pit design • Haul truck stopping distance
• Open Pit Design o Surface creation errors • Sight distance and vertical curves
o How many benches? • Intersect pit design with surface topography • Road Width for curves
o Deepest bench? • Create a block model constraint of material in a pit • Turning circle of large haul trucks
o Single pit splitting into multiple pits • Calculating and categorizing volumes • Super-Elevation
• Pit design parameters o Volumetric reports (tonnes/grades) • Super-Elevation Runout
o General design parameters o Volume between two surfaces • Inflection point
o Define bench parameters o Volume by bench • Spiral or transition curve
o Define ramp slot parameters o Grades and tonnages • Vertical curve
• Display the mine design toolbar and menu bar • Optimal and maximum sustained grades
• Typical pit design issues and errors
• Creating a simple pit • Road Geometrical Design Process
• Pit design data preparation Day 3 o Integrating design methodology with mining plan
o Create ore outlines Life-of-mine pit design exercise o Including haul roads in the ultimate pit design
o Import LG practical optimal push-backs o Integrating roads through the mine schedule
o Import Whittle long-term mine plan Waste Dump Design
o Safety berms, ditches and drainage
o View Whittle outlines in the block model • General dump design parameters
o Intersection design
o Add slope values • Define bench parameters
• Road Surface
• Pit design project set up • Set current bench/toe
o Traction
o Modify toe/crest string profiles • Create new toe/crest lines o Rolling resistance
o Create new toe/crest strings • Create ramp entrance o Typical rolling resistance values
o Define the starting string • Expand single bench
o Define the slope method • Expand multiple benches Haul Road Design
o Define a new ramp entrance o Design a waste dump • Designing roads using string editing tools
o Ramp generation and automated pit design o Calculate dump volume o Design a road using CURVE END
o Expand by bench height and berm width o Design a road using CURVE TANGENT
Day 4
o Expand single bench o Design a road at a Constant Gradient Along Contours
o Expand multiple benches Haul Road Design Concepts o Create a variable width road outline
o Edit a pit design • Haul road geometric design parameters • Using the road design module
• Pit design methods o Design of a spiral road-inside the wall o Create horizontal curves
o Bottom to top design o Design of a spiral ramp - outside the wall o Drape centreline over DTM
o Top to bottom design o Design of a switchback o Create longitudinal profile
• Additional Pit Design Tools • The volume represented by a road o Create vertical inflection points
o Restart a pit design • Road section design o Create vertical curves
o Design a switchback • Straight segment design • Apply longitudinal profile
o Create slot entrance & switchbacks • Curve design • Create road outline
o Create line for opposite ramping • Conventional parallel berm design • Calculating road design volumes
• Creating a DTM of a pit design • Median berm design • Calculate road cut volume
o Clean pit design strings • Key road planning and alignment factors • Calculate road fill volume
MINP 301 - Surface Mine Production Scheduling
GEOVIA MineSched™ Core
MINP 301 - Surface Mine Production Scheduling
GEOVIA MineSched™ Core
MINP 301 - Surface Mine Production • Control all aspects of the schedule or use target-based o Quality of elements report average or aggregate
scheduling algorithms. o Define user parameters
Scheduling – GEOVIA MineSched™ Core
• Incorporate mining directions, bench lags/leads, face o Define user calculations for mining cost, NPV, NSR
Surface Mine Scheduling is a four-day course designed geometry, location limits, and other mining constraints to • Validate material type quantities
for mine planners, mining engineers, geologists, and ensure practical schedules. • Scenario management
technical managers who are responsible for activities that • Schedule ancillary activities such as drilling, blasting, and o Creating and opening scenarios
require them to generate or oversee monthly and weekly back filling. • Navigating the scenarios
mine production schedules. The course is designed to
• Include material movement to stockpiles, processes, and o Data grids & Charts
provide theory through lectures, complemented by a spatially modeled waste dumps. o Dashboard & Spreadsheet views
hands-on production-scheduling project using GEOVIA
• Blend material from mines, stockpiles, processing plants, • Scenario parameters – geological model data
MineSched. The project covers all the required steps from
and waste dumps. o Defining geological models
a long-term yearly schedule generated within a designed
pit to a monthly production schedule taking into account • Visualize Mine Schedules with 2D and 3D Graphics. o Add the model for scheduling
mining and processing capacities, truck-shovel hours, • Display tonnage and grade attributes. o Assign material classes for the schedule
drilling and blasting, blending, and stockpiles • View colored period and production data. o Validate model & check the model for errors
management constraints. Learn how to model and • Generate intermediate mining surfaces. • Define mining locations for scheduling constrained by
manage stockpiles and processes, block modeled waste o Surpac constraints file
• Animate mining sequence as a movie or frame-by-frame.
dumps followed by automated filling strategies and waste o Surfaces/ Solids
scheduling. Also, reporting and 3D visualization of a • Validate and communicate the sequence of activities. o Block/ Polygon
spatial database of the materials within the waste-dump, • Generate reports with production tonnage and grade data. o X, Y,Z planes
which is critical for both long-term waste dump • Produce polygon and bench reports. • Define mining method
management and reclamation. The course covers the • Obtain a detailed understanding of the schedule. o Benches / Polygons
following topics: • Communicate the results to management. o Whole / Bench-polygons
• Medium/ short-term planning concepts • Create reverse vertical lag or constant face distance. • Define mining directions by
• Alignment of short-term plans with strategic plans • Design cut polygons on specific layers o Direction / Azimuth
• Parameters: rates, delays, priorities o Radial / Roaming
• Apply geometry rules to create new polygons.
• Quantity and quality targets • Consolidate blocks into larger units
• Attach attributes to the mine cut polygons.
• Defining mining locations Polymetallic Net Smelter Return (NSR)
• Sequence the mine polygons.
• Defining process streams • NSR Calculations
• Period polygons: tonnage/grades Day 1
o Recovery factor of the metal at the mill
• Reporting: Excel, Access, MS Project • Data storage and familiarization o Concentrate grade / Transport cost
• Animations & presentation tools a) Setup data management hierarchy o Payable metals
b) Data review o Treatment charges / Penalties
Outcomes of the course include:
• Data editing and management o Price participation / Refining charges
• Schedule from block, polygonal and grid models with any
o Block model reporting o Calculate the NSR factors ($/ unit of product)
number of elements, material types, and qualities
o Determine the tonnes and grades in rock types • Estimate the value of a mining sector
• Calculate polymetallic Net Smelter Return (NSR) o Polygons for graphical results
• Graphically sequence mining blocks • Calculate the revenues of mine plans
• Block model material classes
• Calculate the value of broken mineralization in the plan
o Assign material classes for the schedule
MINP 301 - Surface Mine Production Scheduling
GEOVIA MineSched™ Core
Day 2 Day 3 Day 4
• Production - mining constraints • Targets • Selection of Loading & Hauling Equipment
o Define mining resources / diggers o Quality and Quantity targets o Shovel size selection
o Allocation of resources to locations o Add a quality target to the schedule o Bucket capacity selection
o Production rates o Add flexibility to the schedule o Theoretical cycle time
o Resources capacities o Explore the options for meeting the targets o Fill factor, efficiency, and availability
o Resources availabilities o Minimize the rehandling o Determination of shovel geometry
o Physical location constraints o Material ratio and strip ratio targets o Dumping radius and height
o Precedence of mining based on date/event o Effects of material classes on capacities o Shovel Selection from OEM literature
o Delays between mining locations o Create a schedule that has a constant ore production o Haulage truck selection
• Create schedule o Create a schedule that pre-strips waste • Bench Geometry and Equipment Specifications
o Define a timeline for the schedule o Variable throughputs o Shovel working range specifications
o Define units of time for periods • Fill locations o Haul truck OEM specifications
o Create the schedule o Add the block-model that will be used for filling o Working bench width calculations
o Add reports and charts to the dashboard o Dump location modeling o Safety bench width calculations
• Publishing results o Change the waste stockpile to two waste dumps • Haulage and Tonne Km calculations
o Create graphical results & animations Make the schedule more practical o Adding Haulage to the schedule
o Standard and custom reports • Production parameters o Create haulage route strings
o Gantt charts o Mining direction o Reporting TKM
o Block model schedule o Investigate the different mining directions • Short-term polygons
o Analyzing the schedule o Investigate vertical and horizontal-lag o Creating short-term polygons within the long-term
o Production charts by material type o Investigate maximum-lag schedule
o Stockpile balances o Maximum active benches o Bench plans
o Detailed production reports o Maximum active groups o End of period surfaces
o Production animation o Maximum bench drop per period o Polygon mining vs. Bench Polygon mining
• Adding calendars to resources o Maximum benches per period o Polygon constraints
o Preventive maintenance for shovels o Maximum and minimum capacity o Polygon mining to a seam boundary
o Preventive maintenance for mill o Recalculate active location at period start o Polygon mining a single bench
o Working days and holidays o Swell factor o Different polygons on separate benches
o Duration and frequency o Number of active benches per period o Polygon mining a single bench by flitches
o Start and end date o Production rate modifiers • Polygon sequencing
• Sequencing the stages • Precedence parameters o Adding a polygon sequence
o Sequencing the stages using precedences o Blocks in sequence o Apply the correct sequence for this schedule
o Sequencing the stages using production priorities o Block precedences constrained by group • Ancillary activities
o Production priority changes after date/event o Groups in defined sequence o Drilling and blasting activity
o Graphically sequencing polygons o Horizontal lag all directions o Graphically animating the activities
• Perform quick metal price sensitivity studies o Maximum lag distance o Production activities (optional)
o Vertical lag all directions/specific direction
MINP 401 – Drillholes to Block Model using GEOVIA Surpac™
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MINP 401 – Drillholes to Block Model using GEOVIA Surpac™
o Move data in three dimensions o Creating quick planes o Calculate the volume between two DTMs
• Creating data o Cross-sectional viewing o Calculate cut and fill volumes
o Create a simple pit design o Ore digitization o Net volume between DTMs
o Create a simple pit design • Compositing • Clipping a DTM
• Triangulated surfaces o Compositing Downhole o Clip a DTM – file-based method
o Naming conventions o Statistics – downhole compositing o Clip a DTM – graphics-based method
o Breaklines and spot heights o Bench Compositing o Clip a DTM with another DTM – file-based method
o DTM conventions o Fixed length within geological domains o Clip a DTM with another DTM – graphics-based
o Viewing a DTM surface Basic Plotting method
o View a DTM in Graphics • Updating plotting ssi files. • Sectioning a DTM
• Two-dimensional plotting o Create a DTM section axis line
• Creating a DTM surface
• Plan view plotting o Create DTM sections
o Create a DTM — graphics-based method • Section plotting
o Create a DTM — file-based method • Creating contours
• Adding an image of a legend
• Creating a boundary string between two DTM surfaces • Three-dimensional plotting o Create DTM contours – file-based
o Create a boundary string – file-based method • Create a section plot with a plan strip o Create DTM contours – graphics-based
o Create a boundary string – graphics-based method • Create multiple section plots o Create index contour file with annotations
Day 3 • Draping a string over a DTM
• Calculating cut and fill volume using DTM surfaces
• Calculate cut and fill volumes between two DTMs Surface Modeling o Drape a spot height string over a DTM
• Clip data by a boundary • Surface Modeling Concepts o Drape a non-spot height string over a DTM
• Apply a boundary string to a soil sampling file o Drape an image over a DTM
o Setting up for the surface (DTM) creation
• Classify strings • DTM/DTM intersections
o Strings and DTMs
• Polygon intersection o Create an upper triangles surface of two DTMs
o Naming conventions
o Calculate the area of an ore zone within a pit o Breaklines and spot heights o Create a lower triangles surface of two DTMs
o Clip ore blocks inside a pit o Graphical vs file-based options o Create solid by intersecting two DTMs
Day 2
• Creating a DTM • Point cloud for surface
Drillhole Databases o Create a DTM – graphics-based method o Create a surface mesh
• Drillholes/Geological Database o Create a DTM – file-based method o Create a surface mesh with classification
o Geological Database o Create a DTM from spot height data o Restrict surface mesh generation within a polygon
• Importing and viewing data o Create a DTM using breaklines and spot heights o Restrict mesh generation within closed segment
• Display Drillholes o Create a DTM on the plane of best-fit o Restrict mesh generation within closed string
• Applying Styles to Drillholes • Viewing DTMs o Calculate the deviation of a point cloud
• Setting Up a Default Styles File o Recalculate the deviation of a point cloud
o Colour a DTM by elevation
• Basic Statistics and Histograms o Create a point cloud from a trisolation
o Perform graphical animation
• Displaying drillholes with color filled bar graphs o Remove outlier points from the point cloud file
o Save images of a graphical animation
• Drillhole investigation and interrogation Solid Modeling
• Transform a DTM to a different coordinate system
o Identify drillhole • Solids concepts
• DTM volume calculations
o Graphically edit drillhole o What is a solid model
o Create a boundary string using the file-based method
• Sections o Terminology
o Create a boundary string using the graphics-based
o Creating sections graphically o Solids files
method
MINP 401 – Drillholes to Block Model using GEOVIA Surpac™
c project. The completed models and labs will be shared • Assess the uncertainty associated with the fleet
by the participants. productivity, haulage costs, and cash flow analysis to
Simulation Software: Arena Review of past Haulage Simulation Projects support decision making.
Fundamentals of Discrete Event Simulation (DES) We will present mine haulage simulation tools developed • Mixed fleet truck-shovel simulation modeling using
modeling and its industrial applications to mining and and implemented for our clients’ large-scale mining resources sets and maintenance schedules.
processing systems are presented. Theoretical and operations. The developed simulation models have been • Introduction of resource failures with defining
statistical aspects of simulation, including input and output used as operational planning tools in our clients’ probability distribution functions for mean time
analysis, experimental design, and variance reduction businesses. The simulation tool takes the mine production between failures and mean time to repairs of trucks,
techniques are presented. Arena Simulation Environment schedule as an input and imitates the truck-shovel haulage- shovels, and crushers.
(by Rockwell Automation) is used as the primary modeling systems and its interaction with the extraction plant • Truck dispatching using station-route and assessing
simulation tool for explaining simulation concepts. including crushers and downstream assets. The simulation the reliability of the system.
The course focuses on modeling detail truck-shovel tool reports the major system’s KPIs at 95% level of • Combined continuous and discrete event simulation of
simulation models that uses the historical dispatch data, statistical confidence within 3% accuracy of the historical processing systems.
road profiles, and short-term mine plans as input into the dispatch data. Major KPIs reported by the automated • Comminution operations including crushing
simulation model. The simulation models need to be output reporting system are: ore and waste production, machines, grinding, and semi-autogenous mills,
calibrated, and verified to link the short-term mining queue time, spot time, load time, dipper tonnage, haul time,
schedules to the operational plans in presence of • Bulk material terminal modeling including arrival of
dump time, truck speeds, backup time, loading cycle time,
uncertainties of cycle times, scheduled and unscheduled trains, stockyard cells, stockpile blending, stackers and
head grade, time and number of trucks in queue, and truck-
down times, shift changes, etc. reclaimers, and the ships loading section.
and-shovel operational KPIs. The simulation tool gives the
The rest of the course will focus on combined continuous planner capability to assess the impact of changing Day 1
and discrete-event simulation of processing systems. Size operational scenarios such as stockpiling, different sizes of Lec01 – Introduction to Simulation Modeling
classifications including sieves and hydrocyclones; mixed-fleet trucks, and introduction of new haul-roads into
• Fundamental simulation concepts
comminution operations including crushing machines, to the mine plan. Normalized results of real projects will
grinding, and semi-autogenous mills; solid-liquid be presented. • Systems and models
separation including thickeners and filtration; and also Outcomes of the course include: • Types of simulation models
gravity and magnetic separation modeling will be covered • Review of main truck-shovel time charts such as • Discrete and continuous models
by examples. definition of work, ops delay, ops standby, short down, • Static vs. dynamic
The course is intended for mining and processing down service, down technical, down waiting, and out • Deterministic vs stochastic
engineering disciplines and participants who would like to of system. • Advantage and disadvantages
use simulation to design and optimize real-world mining • A review on probability and statistics and fundamental • Steps in simulation study
systems. On completion of this course, successful simulation concepts. • Functional specification / assumption document
attendees will have an in depth understanding of principles • Review of main truck-shovel KPIs such as definition
and methodologies, of discrete event simulation. Lec02 – Review of Basic Probability and Statistics
of physical availability, use of availability, operating
Also, they will be able to use Arena Simulation efficiency, effective utilization, tonne per net • Probability and statistics review
Software (Rockwell Automation) as the simulation operating hours, etc. • Variance and covariance
modeling tool for simulating and optimizing real world • Truck-shovel simulation modeling using resources, • Correlation
systems. A series of labs using Arena Simulation queues, and basic animation to calculate fleet • Generating random variates
Software (Rockwell Automation) are undertaken to productivity. • Statistical inference
model and optimize real world systems. Students • Confidence interval estimation
undertake a complete simulation modeling/analysis
• Half-width
MINP 501 - Simulation of Mining and Haulage Systems using Arena
• Testing Goodness of Fit • Combine discrete and continuous models o Spur and Stations
o Chi – Square • Illustrate variable values in a plot o Intersections
o Kolmogorov – Smirnov (K-S) Test • Start and end zone control rules
• Modify inter-arrival times during the simulation
o Square – Error • Deadlocks
• Hold entities until a specific condition is met
o The P-P (probability – probability) plot Lab12 – Advanced Transporters – Free and Guided Path
o The (Q-Q) (quantile – quantile) plot • Model surge bin and crusher dump pocket
Lec11_Advanced Statistics • Mine haulage simulation
Lec09_Output Data Analysis
• Arena Constructs:
• Output Data Analysis and Modeling • In shift time persistent statistics
o Intersections element
o Within replication statistics • In shift frequency statistics
o Intersection object
o Across replication statistics Lab11 – Stockpile Modeling o Network data module
o Observational and Time-Persistent Data o Network Link module
• Read the records from a sequential file
• Simulation time horizon
• Write the results to a sequential file Lec14_Conveyors
• Finite horizon
• Model truck arrivals based on dispatching data • Gravity based and powered conveyors
o Infinite horizon
• Coal/Iron Ore Terminal Stockpiling and Ships • Accumulating conveyors
o Runtime confidence interval
• Non-Accumulating conveyors
• Process Analyzer • Modeling Discrete/Continuous Models
• Fixed spacing conveyors
Lec10_Discrete Continuous Models o Flow Process Template – To Model Flow
• Random spacing conveyors
o Tanks, Regulators and Regulator Sets
• What is a continuous system? o Seize Regulator and Release Regulator modules • Cell size and efficiency
• Simple linear continuous systems o Trigger actions using a Sensors • Modules
o Animate Flow of material o Conveyor - Segment
• Combined discrete/continuous systems
o Continuous to discrete conversion o Access, Convey, Exit
• Non-linear and complex systems o Start, Stop
• Continuous systems Elements Day 5
o Enter and Leave
o Levels and Rates Lec12_Transporters Free Path • Transferring between conveyors
o Continuous • Model constrained entity transfer with resources • Merging conveyors
o Crossing tolerance • Model constrained entity transfer with transporters • Diverging conveyors
o Detect Block • Model automatic guided vehicles systems • Processing on conveyors
Lab09 – Flow Process • Basic animation for entity transfer situations
Lec15_Transporters & Conveyors Failures
• Tanks • Flowchart modules
o Allocate, Move, Transport Lab13 – Crushing and Size Reduction Plant
o Bulk material holding or storage
o Liquid storage where a regulator represents a valve o Free, Halt, Activate • Model size reduction machines
o Fluid-like material storage regulator is a gate valve Lec13_Transporters Guided Path • Model classifiers and branching streams
• Combining tanks • AGV is autonomous powered vehicle • Crusher and Conveyors
Lab10 – Modeling Coal Storage Bin Design • Transporters compete with each other for the space • Storage bins and stockpiles
• Model storage bins/stockpiles • Vehicle’s network Lab14 – Magnetic Separation
• Model crusher and run of mine stockpile o Network links • Comminution machines
o Zones and Bidirectional path • Gyratory Crusher
• Use continuous simulation - signal and regulators
o Unidirectional path • Semi-Autogenous Mills
MINP 402 – Drillholes to Block Model using GEOVIA GEMS™
MINP 402 – Drillholes to Block Model using GEOVIA GEMS™
COURSE DESCRIPTION Outcomes of the course include: • Report volumes and tonnages using the block model
Software: GEOVIA GEMS By the end of this course, you will be able to complete the Day 1
following in GEOVIA GEMS:
Drillholes to Block Model is a five-day course that covers Module 1: Project Databases and Workspaces
principles and fundamental concepts involved in drillhole • Create new projects and databases
• Drillhole databases
database management; data manipulation, filtering, and • Add and modify sections and plans views
validation techniques; drillhole compositing techniques; • Workspace and database concepts
plot generations; surface and solid modeling for geological • Load and display drillholes
• Header, survey, assay, lithology,
domain characterization; basic geostatistical analysis, • Manipulate data in the database
variography and search ellipsoids setup, block model setup • From–to, distance, and point databases
and estimation, single and multiple folder block models, • Perform basic statistics on drillhole data
• Workspace concepts
inverse distance and kriging estimation, and NI-43-101 • Composite drillhole data
resource classification into measured, indicated, and • Data types
inferred categories. This course will also explore different • Create points and polylines
• Creating workspaces for drillholes
methods of categorizing and reporting volumes and • Use Plot Maker
tonnages for resources. • Editing data
• Use drillhole data to create basic surfaces
The course complements theory with comprehensive • Validating the drillhole data
instructions and hands-on experience using GEOVIA • Digitize 3D rings from interpreted drillhole data
• Defining colour profiles and drillhole display profiles
GEMS software. Participants will complete a resource • Create and manage triangulation solids ad surfaces
modeling project with an iron ore drillhole dataset. The • Opening drillhole data into the graphical area
project covers all the required steps from drillhole database • Perform statistical analysis
• Profiles and profile groups
setup to statistical analyses, experimental variogram • Understand variogram concepts
calculation, variogram modeling, search ellipsoid setup, Module 2: Sections, Plan Views, and Plotting
grade estimation using inverse distance and kriging, cross • Calculate experimental variograms
validation of results, and finally resource classification. • Sections and plan views
• Model variograms
The modules for the course are as follows: • Profiles and profile groups
• Interpret variogram maps
• Module 1: Drillholes Databases and Workspaces • Cross and longitudinal sections, plan views
• Establish search ellipsoids
• Module 2: Sections, Plan Views, and Plotting • Creating sections and plan views
• Create block model projects
• Module 3: Basic Statistics and Data Manipulation • Viewing data on sections and plan views
• Update block attributes for rock type and density
• Module 4: Drillhole Compositing • Creating inclined and diagonal sections
• Understand kriging theory
• Module 5: Geology – Surface and Solid Modeling • Plotting data
• Estimate grades using inverse distance and kriging
• Module 6: Basic Statistics • Creating drillhole plots from displayed data
• Indicator kriging for numerical rock type modeling
• Module 7: Variograms • Creating symbol plots from displayed data
• Create partial block models
• Module 8: Single Folder Block Model • Creating a grid and contour plot
• Cross validate the estimated block model values
• Module 9: Partial Block Models • Create a structure plot
• Import and export block models
• Module10: Resource Classification • Batch plotting
• Classify resources based on NI 43-101 guidelines
MINP 402 – Drillholes to Block Model using GEOVIA GEMS™
• Defining plot styles o By equal length o Create topography, weathering, pits, faults, etc.
• Creating extra viewports o By length within intervals from another table o Creating surfaces with two sets of lines
o By merging intervals from two tables o Optimizing surfaces
• Creating title blocks and graphical images
o By a single cut-off value. o Creating Surfaces using Spherical Gridding
• Saving images into catalogues
o By multiple cut-off values o Defining a spherical grid profile
• Defining grid transformations o By grouped similar values • Solid Modeling
Day 2 o By Optimal values o What are the basic polyline types and uses
Module 3: Basic Statistics and Data Manipulation • Workspace for composite results o Digitizing new polylines
• Point data and filtering data • Calculating the composite o Making polyline modifications
• Validating data • Performing a thickness calculation o Drawing close polylines on sections
• Creating a workspace structure report o Defining 3D rings on section or plan
• Displaying drillholes with the calculated composites
o Using tie lines to connect 3D rings
• Generating a quick report o Composite by rock code for geology polylines
o Basics rules for the creations of rings and tie lines
• Preparing a user defined report o Composite by cut-off grade
o Grooming the 3D rings
o Basic Statistics on Composites
• Data extraction from the workspace o Creating the solid from rings and tie lines
o Determine optimum sample length for compositing
• Univariate statistics o Plotting the solid on section
o Composite equal length intervals within domains
• Multivariate statistics o Handling split rings
o Extract composites into a point area workspace
o Handling dog ears
• Creating a point area workspace o Carry out and compare basic statistics
o Drawing tie lines
• Importing points into a point area workspace Day 3
o Create geological domains using solids
• Defining the point display profile Module 5: Geology - Surface and Solid Modeling o Quick tonnes/grade calculations for geological
• Opening points in the graphical area • Surface Modeling domains
• Basic statistics on raw data o Working with polyline data o Solid boolean operations
o Creating a polyline workspace o Solid intersection with clipping boundaries
• Working with data filters
o Importing polylines from DXF or ASCII files o Contouring solids
• Working with SQL filters
o Defining the polyline display profile Day 4
• Manipulating data o Opening polylines into the graphical area Module 6: Basic Statistics
• Defining manipulations o Selecting the drillhole intersects for the surface • Understanding the Geological Domains
• Simple manipulation and conditional manipulation creation
o The Impact of Domains on Estimated Values
o Creating surfaces from active data
• Cross table transfer and de-surveying • Basic Statistics
o Preparing the surface using Laplace gridding
Module 4: Drillhole Compositing o Descriptive statistics
o Gridding and Contouring Surfaces
• Compositing methods o Histograms
o Create and validate surfaces
o By plan view o Cumulative probability plots
MINP 402 – Drillholes to Block Model using GEOVIA GEMS™