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Grade Control Services for GEOVIA Surpac™

GeOVIA’s Services GEOVIA provides comprehensive software products that span the
mining value chain, along with mining expertise and services that
are available improve productivity by streamlining workflows and establishing
consistent best-practices at our clients’ sites. One of the most
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for geology, common requests we receive is for assistance with grade control
and we have found that by helping to ensure the processes that
engineering, define grade control are efficient and repeatable is critical to driving
and operations profitability in our clients’ operations.

projects
Establishing More Effective Working with your team, we can make certain that
there are no gaps in understanding the flow of data
Grade Control: A Framework for
and information, right from drilling of a hole through to
Automation and Best Practise production of a dig plan and daily report.
Our mining professionals have worked with Surpac We Can Assist With:
clients all over the world to help them mine to plan more • Standardising and streamlining your grade control data
effectively and to drive productivity by ensuring they and workflows and reporting.
have the flexibility required to get the most out of their • Documenting procedures, responsibilities, data locations
operations. With a better grade control framework, you will and naming conventions.
have a much clearer day-to-day understanding of grade
• Automating your grade control workflows, including
variations and improved decision support to give you more
updating old Surpac macros.
mining options.
• Training your staff on the grade control procedures.

Benefits of Better Grade Control: When we complete our work with you, we will leave behind
a well-planned framework that works from day one, in
• Minimised dilution and maximised ore extraction. which all your grade control procedures, including data and
• Improved reconciliation between predicted and workflows – whether they are governed by software or
actual production. manual procedures are documented. Further, the new and
• Establishment of consistency of procedures and updated automation workflows that drive much of the overall
continuity of knowledge. process will be version controlled, documented, and put
through user acceptance testing. We will also educate your
• Increased collaboration between geology, planning team and provide you with a complete set of comprehensive,
and production. custom documentation complete with screen shots, meaning
• Automation results in significant time-savings. the process will be transparent and readily understood by your
staff even if they are new to the operation.
How We Can Help You Improve
Grade Control Get the Benefits of the New
Surpac Dynamic Shells Module
New and improved grade control procedures can be
for Grade Control
implemented at any stage in the lifecycle of a mine – we
can help you replace a home grown system, set up a new Dynamic Shells can be used as part of any grade control
area of the operation, or assist when you are about to workflow as it allows the geologist to create 3D grade
start mining. Whatever your needs, we have the expertise contours within any domain for any cut-off and for any
and experience necessary to ensure you are applying best element. In addition, it can return solid or surface models
practice grade control methodology appropriate to your to Surpac for use as 3D constraints in the block modeling
circumstances. system. The advantage of using Dynamic Shells is that
experimental models can be created very quickly without
the requirement for time-consuming manual techniques.
LEGEND: Geology Deleterious element grade shells can be superimposed over
Define sampling
methodology Laboratory the commodity grade shells with ease, further permitting
Planning the optimisation of the grade control process.
Map mining face/ Production
collect samples
Need Help with Specific Tasks
Mine to dig plan/
Assay samples
Related to Grade Control?
expose next bench
When you do not have the in-house expertise or time, D.13.1

Reconcile grade model GEOVIA’s experts can provide project assistance in

against resource model areas including:
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Validate and • Data interpretation.

Generate dig plan
interpret data • Resource and block modelling, including validation
and updating.
Update block model
• Plotting.
An example open pit grade control procedure. A similar procedure, with • Definition and updating of dig plans and other plotting
adjustments, would apply to underground mining. requirements.

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