AGRICULTURE
Stope optimization can be challenging without a software package that includes an industry-standard algorithm. A package that allows you to create mine designs and activity-based schedules is also vital.
Not only is it time-consuming to manually build a mine design, there’s no ability to quickly model all preceding activities that lead to production, or to evaluate strategic optimization scenarios. No algorithm means ambiguity when determining stope economic limits, and no insight into equipment resources.
MinePlan UG Strategic Planning combines the industry-standard engine for producing optimized stopes with the MinePlan 3D CAD tool. MinePlan Stope Optimizer allows you to evaluate strategic mining scenarios by generating economic stope limits based on economics and constraints input by the user. Detailed designs can be created using MinePlan 3D CAD tools.
The package provides the necessary 3D visualization, room and pillar, and engineering UG CAD tools to help minimize dilution, improve resource recovery, maximize equipment utilization and maintain consistent production levels.
The industry-standard algorithm for stope optimization allows for variation of economic and geometric parameters. It includes underground CAD design tools and an activity scheduler that understands sequence and precedences for underground activities.
Not only can engineers evaluate and optimize stope designs, they can use MinePlan 3D CAD tools to create mine designs and activity-based schedules that account for sequence and precedences for underground activities.
Communicate activity-based schedules to operations directly, via integration with the HxGN MineOperate UG Pro fleet management system. Tasks can be assigned and completed in the field with results being pulled back into MinePlan to update schedules on the fly.
Basis Modeling is a set of routines for creating and manipulating surfaces and solids, as well as routines for building, managing, and basic interpolation of 3D block, stratigraphic, and gridded surface models.
Using constraints and design parameters, Stope Optimizer provides the optimal stope shape design to maximize the value of an orebody. The outputs are suitable for use in strategic and tactical planning.
Applied tactically, Hexagon’s short-term planning software can reap rich operational rewards, explains Technical Services’ specialist, Javier Castaneda in a video interview.
Manage underground fleet equipment and broadcast time-utilization information the instant it’s needed in remote areas deep below the surface with HxGN MineOperate UG Pro. See the video.