Industry Process Experience
Produce a range of mine and plant scenarios that maximize the project’s economic value and assess its robustness and reliability. It is versatile and can be used over a mixture of mining methods, including surface, underground, and caving mines.
Key objectives include visualizing all possible options of investment scenarios in the Hill of Value and optimizing the use of the plant as from a correct selection of mine capacity and cut-off grade. By incorporating price uncertainty, risk can be minimized, making production more robust in the face of changing market cycles.
Roles
GEOVIA Block Modeler (JBM)
Benefits:
- Integrated geology modeling, geostatistics and resource estimation allow all aspects of resource modeling to be done in the one environment.
- High performance estimation and constraint engines enables efficient resource generation.
- Utilize data from other software packages with the use of Surpac’s sophisticated Data Plug-ins.
- Surpac has a worldwide reputation for being able to deliver; is easy to learn, use and customize.
- Tasks in Surpac can be automated for compliance with company-specific processes and data flows for increased time savings and consistency of execution.
- High adoption of Surpac makes it easy finding skilled workforce, while multilingual support for English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish and French make local workforce more productive.
Highlights:
- Calculate volume and quality of materials within extents of an area under investigation.
- Create reports of any geological object according to international standards.
- Generate volumetric block models & perform geostatistical analysis.
- Evaluate mineral resources.
- Produce outputs for regulatory reports and investment feasibility decisions.
GEOVIA Mine Contributor (JMC)
Benefits:
- Utilize data from other software packages with the use of Surpac’s sophisticated Data Plug-ins.
- Surpac has a worldwide reputation for being able to deliver; is easy to learn, use and customize.
- Tasks in Surpac can be automated for compliance with company-specific processes and data flows for increased time savings and consistency of execution.
- High adoption of Surpac makes it easy finding skilled workforce, while multilingual support for English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish and French make local workforce more productive.
Highlights:
- Input, access and output mining geological and engineering data.
- Select, constrain and view exploration data and mine information.
- Model and create complex surface and solids representing mining data.
- Create point and line data with comprehensive CAD toolset.
- Import and manage massive point clouds data, clean and generate surface meshes, and report on volumes.
- Automate workflows using powerful scripting capabilities with the ability to record and playback.
GEOVIA Tactical Mine Planner (JMP)
Benefits:
- Achieve scheduling objectives by quickly and easily creating and comparing scheduling scenarios.
- Increase productivity and efficiency by directly reading from all of the popular mine planning solutions or combinations thereof for a data-conversion-free advanced scheduling user experience.
- Reduce mining costs by preparing practical schedules through the use of rules, constraints and capacity targets.
- Lower processing costs by meeting your feed grade requirements through target scheduling algorithms.
- Validate schedules by visualizing them in 3D animations and sharing them via the standalone Interactive Viewer application.
- Collaborate with others by publishing your schedule results to Microsoft® Excel®, Microsoft® Project® and Microsoft® Access®.
Highlights:
- For open pit mines, accepts and schedules any number of pits.
- For underground mines, supports scheduling of development advance as well as stope production.
- Heuristic algorithms for target-based scheduling allow superior results to be obtained when targeting specific material ratios and quality objectives.
- Manages stockpiles.
- Intuitive Production Priority rules for all Mining related activities.
- Calculates haulage requirements.
- Supports all minerals and mining methods.
GEOVIA Cave Long-term Planner (GSK)
Highlights
Automatic generation of tunnel design
- Streamlined setup of tunnels, draw point, and rings for rapid start-up.
- Advanced planning.
- Advanced flow modelling.
- Analyses multiple scenarios.
- Powerful and dynamic visualization tool.
- Improved flexibility in planning.
- Improving productivity and profits.
- Superior run-time performance on full-sized projects.
GEOVIA Cave Mid-term Planner (GTP)
Benefits:
- Powerful production scheduling optimizes the NPV of a project/mine while maintaining a practical mining plan and satisfying complex cave management by using tonnage, grade, and equipment performance constraints.
- Create realistic undercut sequences in PCBC with operational constraints.
- Design the undercut level with exact ring shapes and precise grades.
- Alternative flow models to help determine the best model to be applied to any site situation.
- More flexibility in multi-lift caving environments.
- A complete residual block model obtained directly after the analysis.
Highlights:
- Schedule optimization.
- Maximize NPV.
- Improved flexibility in planning.
- Improved productivity and profits.
- Undercut model.
- Sequence draws bells with the undercut sequence.
- Advanced flow modelling.
GEOVIA Cave Operations Scheduler (GPN)
Benefits:
- Keep production schedules current under dynamically changing conditions.
- Spend less time creating scheduling options that satisfy daily production (grade, dilution, contaminants, etc.).
- Powerful production scheduling which can be rapidly updated and modified for real production statistics.
- Strong interface capabilities with LHD dispatch and monitoring systems.
- LSQ makes use of past assay data to more accurately predict the grade for selected draw points in the short-term.
Highlights:
- Cave management.
- Daily operations.
- Grade management using draw point samples.
- Operational constraints.
- Import/export data from LHD dispatch and monitoring systems.
- Powerful draw order generation using multiple methods.
- Support for variable time frames per order.