4. Mining Fields step

The default Mining Fields are volume, dry tonnes, wet tonnes and moisture. In addition to the defaults, add any block model fields that are present in the inventory files and which are relevant to scheduling. For example: product grades, contaminants, resource class, geological class, and water table class.

Any field which affects the commercial value of the material should be flagged in the Product Field column (i.e. tonnes and grades).

Click the folder icon on the side and import the sample “.openfields” file to auto-populate the Fields table (or configure manually from the side button menu).

Mining Fields table

Indent	Product Field	Name	Description	Units	Field Type	Summary Type	Weighting	Formatting
0	False	volume	Volume	bcm	Double	Sum		#,##0
0	True	dryTonnes	Dry Tonnes	dt	Double	Sum		#,##0
0	True	wetTonnes	Wet Tonnes	wt	Double	Sum		#,##0
0	True	moisture	Moisture [ (wt - dt) / wt ]	t/t	Double	WeightedAverage	wetTonnes	0.#####
0	True	grades	Grades		Title	None
1	True	fe	Fe	%	Double	WeightedAverage	dryTonnes	#,##0.000
1	True	al	Al	%	Double	WeightedAverage	dryTonnes	#,##0.000
1	True	si	Si	%	Double	WeightedAverage	dryTonnes	#,##0.000
1	True	p	Phos	%	Double	WeightedAverage	dryTonnes	#,##0.000
1	True	mn	Mn	%	Double	WeightedAverage	dryTonnes	#,##0.000
1	True	loi	LOI	%	Double	WeightedAverage	dryTonnes	#,##0.000
0	False	ctadj	Truck Cycle Time Factor		Double	Sum		#,##0.00
0	False	class	Class		Title	None
1	False	res	Resource Class		Title	None
2	False	indicated	Indicated	t	Double	Sum		#,##0
2	False	inferred	Inferred	t	Double	Sum		#,##0
2	False	measured	Measured	t	Double	Sum		#,##0
2	False	unclassified	Uncalssified	t	Double	Sum		#,##0
0	False	drilling	Drilling Fields		Title	None
0	False	contourPct	Contour Percentage		Double	WeightedAverage	dryTonnes	#,##0.00
0	False	path	Imported Input Path		Title	None
1	False	weight	Weight		Double	Sum		#,##0
1	False	priority	Priority Sequence		Double	WeightedAverage	path_weight	#,##0