MineSight Interactive Planner Tips & Tricks

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MineSight Interactive Planner Tips and Tricks

MineSight Interactive Planner (IP) is a planning tool that works with all the MineSight models and drillhole files. This paper will describe some new aspects of the tool and several tips and tricks that will make your usage more productive. IP requires an open database connectivity (ODBC) connection to the Attributed Geometry Database Model (AGDM), which can be either a Microsoft Access or Microsoft SQL database. A template of the Microsoft Access AGDM is located in the winexe directory and is called attrib13_16.mdb. The normal procedure is to copy the attrib13_ 16.mdb from winexe to the project directory and rename it to reflect the IP plan. This is important since you may have several different ODBC connections to each project, such as an acQuireTM database, and one or more different IP connections.

The AGDM is connected to MineSight by clicking Database | Database Management | Connect to Attributed Database, then picking the appropriate ODBC connection.

MSAGDMConvert

MineSight 3-D 3.30 uses a different version (v1.6) of the AGDM then previous versions and as such requires existing AGDM to be converted to the new format. MSAGDMConvert requires that you have two existing ODBC databases in which to move the IP plans. This will allow you to run previous versions of IP along with IP 3.30 for testing. While you can convert a MineSight 3-D 3.30 version AGDM to a pre-3.30 version, the 3.30 only attributes will be lost.

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If you do not wish to convert all the IP Plans in the database, you can convert one IP Plan at a time by selecting the IP Plan to convert.

MSAGDMConvert will inform you if you have already converted a Plan.

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New features of the AGDM

IP now is versioned for each component. IP will now check the versions of the scripts and the AGDM to make sure that they are compatible with each other. The new version of the AGDM has all Table names converted to Upper Case so that the SQL versions of the AGDM can be run on case insensitive or case sensitive databases. There have also been additional fields added to the AGDM for equipment reporting purposes.

Average DH/Composite

New to MineSight 3-D 3.30 is the option to create an IP Plan using drillhole data. To select this option, create a new Interactive Planner Object (IPO) and check the Drillholes box. The setup will be similar to IPOs created for models, except you will be picking a DH View object instead of a Model View object.

The DH View object will control the items available for selecting the zone, density, and grade items. In particular, the density used for the calculations of tons will be based on the Zone item.

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The Material Set will be similar to the Model View types as well, with the exception that all the cutoffs come from the default material.

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The Design Cuts panel is setup similarly to the Model View IP setup as well. One important difference is in the 2-D Options panel.

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In order to define the volume of the cut, you need to specify the distance from the section. In plan view this is above/below, in section in front/behind. The reserve reports will calculate the tonnes based on the Zone items density, but reported under the Default material.

MineSight Interactive Planner Setup

IP Tool -Area 2-D Partials calculations The IP Tool panel has the 2-D Partials calculations area where you can modify the number of vectors to slice through each block for the partials calculations. This defaults to 20. If you are comparing the IP cuts against M650IP cuts, change this value to 10. The higher the number of vectors, the better the precision of the partial calculation. The direction of the slices can be changed from the default horizontal to vertical. This option can be important for some deposits that have certain geometries and block sizes and track ore percentages, such as complex coal projects. Zone Items The zone items define the classification of the material. You can have different IP Areas saved to report out the reserves based on a Confidence item (Measured, Indicated, Inferred), an Ore Type (Oxide, Mixed, Sulfide), by Rock Type (1, 2, , n), etc. Grade Items IP allows up to 50 different grade items. The first grade item is the one to which the Material cutoffs will be applied. The Accum option is for items that get accumulated instead of averaged, e.g., barrels, ounces, and carats.

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MineSight Interactive Planner Tips & Tricks IP Tool - Material Sets

Zone Name The Zone name is where you specify the name that will appear in the Cut Reserves panel. Normally these are linked to the values of the Zone item defined in the Area tab. The Zone name that is checked as the default is used. In the Multiple Ore Percent case, you can have both a default ore and waste item. Note that in the case of Drillhole IPOs there is only a single type of material, so dont bother entering in multiple Zone names, usless you have different densities for the zone items and you do not have a density item in the assay or composite file. For example, if you are using rock as the zone item and there is no density item in the file, then you would use the zone names to specify the density based on the rock type so that the tonnage is calculated using a weighted average density. Show AutoSlicer Setup For IPOs without Patial mapping, this option lets you target AutoSlicer by Reserves (tonnage). By default the Reserves target is the total tonnage of a cut (including waste). You can restrict reserves bins to sum into AutoSlicer target in material table. The right click menu options include options such as Select All, Select Column, Select Row, etc. Any accumulation scripts that are toggle to run automatically will be run against each cut generated by the AutoSlicer.

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Defaults Auto naming The auto naming option lets you automatically assign a name to each cut generated. Although this is not required, it is very helpful in identifying each cut. A Prefix and Suffix can be assigned to each cut as can the starting integer value for the cut. Each cut can be padded with leading 0s to simplify the ordering of the cuts. Strip Numerical grades suffices When working with multiple ore percent models, you may wish to summarize all the grades across the different zones. This option will report just the ore and waste types without the ore1, ore2, waste1, waste2 suffixes.

IP Cut Design

Polygon Cut Orientation If you are snapping your cuts to an Edit Grid, or the cut has some 3D variation, then the cut polygon may not be orthogonal to the model. Selecting the type of cut will affect the calculation of the partials without modifying the cut polygon.

2-D Cut Options

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MineSight Interactive Planner Tips & Tricks Apply to Coordinate Range

By default an entire bench is used for 3-D models and the seams/zones range displayed for GSM models are used. This option allows you to specify a partial or multiple bench calculation for 3-D models and an elevation range within a seam/seam range for GSM models. Note that if you use Coordinate Range with a GSM model, the reserves will include any seams within that range, whether or not they are displayed. The attributes tab is where you specify the items that you want to track for each cut. This is where the flexibility of IP stands out. Items of interest for each cut that would not normally be stored in the model are defined here. For example, you can store the Destination of the cut, the Shovel, Drill Rig, Shift, and other site-specific item for each cut as an attribute in the AGDM. IP can apply validation on the attributes, such as range checking for integer and real numbers and against a lookup list for text items. The attributes are chosen for each session, thus different attributes can be created for different objectives and only those applicable to the current planning process are used. IP now has more scripts accessible at one time. There are three Accumulation scripts and six Additional scripts that can be specified. This gives more flexibility in choosing which script to run for each cut.

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Attributes

Scripts

The Quick Attributes tab allows you to add or modify attributes for existing cuts. For example you could set the mining date, destination, shovel, or hardness for existing cuts. For non-validated attributes, you can specify a base and increment value and have the cuts be auto numbered. There is a new option, $index which, along with the base value, can be used to sequence cuts.

Quick Attrib

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AutoSlicer can be used in two ways in IP. Within IP you can activate AutoSlicer by clicking on the AutoSlicer icon. The icon brings up the AutoSlicer and prompts your for the solid or polygon to use, the target value (Distance, Volume/Area, Coordinate, Node Points, By Grade, Reserves), direction of the cut and cut naming options. The created cuts slices are imported as cuts into IP. Import Multiple The other way to use AutoSlicer output is to click File | Import Multiple on the menu bar of the IP Cut Design window and select the polygons that you wish to import. This could also be used for selecting previously made cuts from another IPO. The equipment Reporting scripts are now included as part of IP. The scripts are divided into two parts, a setup script and a run script. Existing cuts can be displayed outside of IP and the properties can be controlled by the attributes assigned to the cut. When creating Geometry View items you can filter the objects based on the attributes. Thus you could display all the cuts that were sent the Leach Crusher for the month of May.

Autoslicer

Equipment Reporting Geometry View

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