Mining

Incremental Solids

On the Mining tab, in the Task Preparation group, you can now select an option to create Incremental, cumulative and/or remainder solids from a list of surfaces clipped to specified bounds and (optionally) topography.

The outputs of this process can be used as inputs to a new Bench Solids tool.

 

Bench Solids

On the Mining tab, in the Task Preparation group:, you can now select an option to create Bench Solids from a block model that satisfies a minimum mining width.

Inputs to the process will typically be a block model that was wireframe assigned using a new Incremental Solids tool. The process will generate a solid wireframe for each bench of the block model, separated by the specified extraction number.

To create bench pushbacks from optimisation results, this option is also available on the Mining tab, in the Resource Optimisation group: Select Pit Optimiser | Create Bench Pushbacks.

 

Development Solids

On the Mining tab, in the Task Preparation group, when you select Development Solids to load and decode a network of centreline strings as a development design profile (or when the same development networks are selected as a Task Source in a Schedule Definition), error detection and reporting has been improved to include:

• Development network nodes without predecessors that have not been explicitly marked as entrances.

• Lower priority blocks lying entirely within higher priority blocks (causing them to be skipped).

• Self-intersecting blocks, which occur mainly where there is a short segment length next to a sharp corner.

When these errors occur, the option to continue or abort the development solid building process is provided. Error details are written to the output console.