Preparing the Tasks

Tasks for Open-Pit Schedules

  • Primary Types

    • Mining Blocks

  • Individual Tools

    • Mining | Resource Optimisation | Pit Optimiser

    • Scheduling | Schedule | Task Preparation | …

      • Incremental Solids Generator

      • Bench Solids

      • Mining Blocks

 

Tasks for Underground Schedules

  • Primary Types

    • Development

    • Stopes

  • Individual Tools

    • Development

      • Mining | Mine Design | Underground Mine Design | Centreline to Solid

      • Scheduling | Schedule | Task Preparation | Development Solids

    • Stopes

      • Mining | Resource Optimisation | Stope Optimiser

 

Tasks for All Schedules

  • Individual Tools

    • Mining | Task Preparation | Material Bins

    • Wireframe | Assign | Attribute Assign | From Block Model

    • Wireframe | Calculations | Attribute Expressions

    • Scheduling | Schedule | Add Tasks | From Wireframes

    • Scheduling | Schedule | Task Types | Auxiliary Task Rules

    • Scheduling | Schedule | Add Tasks | Inter-Group Dependencies

  • Wizard

    • Schedule | Add Tasks | Schedule Definition

    • Use wherever possible

 

Schedule Definition – Purpose

  • Creates binding context for design parameters from one step to next

  • Applies design parameters to task sources to prepare wireframes for tasks (“mining blocks”)

  • Assigns volumes, masses and grades for elements and material bins from block models to task wireframes

  • Calculates, and defines block-to-task aggregation rules for, custom fields

  • Imports multiple task sources from multiple block models

  • Generates dependencies between tasks from different sources

  • Simple, flexible, repeatable and auditable

Best practice for defining schedules within Micromine Beyond.

 

Schedule Definition – Structure

  • Scheduling | Schedule | Add Tasks | Schedule Definition

  • Combination of lists of:

    • Elements (products/commodities) with grade and mass units

    • Block models with mapped elements and material bin sets

    • Task sources

      • Wireframe sets (reserved or unreserved)

      • Pit wireframes (or block model shells)

      • Centreline strings

      • Development networks

      • Pit optimisations

    • Auxiliary task rules

    • Dependency rule sets

      • For slope angles

      • For bench solids

      • Between user-defined groups of tasks (inter-group)

  • Defines schedule using design parameters and rules

 

Schedule Definition – Option Integrations

  • For pit wireframes:

    • Mining | Task Preparation | Mining Blocks

  • For centreline strings:

    • Mining | Mine Design | Underground Mine Design | Centreline to Solid

  • For all task sources:

    • Derivation of task attributes from wireframe attributes and design parameters

    • Mining | Task Preparation | Material Bins

    • Wireframe | Assign | Attribute Assign | From Block Model

    • Scheduling | Schedule | Add Tasks | From Wireframes

    • Scheduling | Schedule | Task Types | Auxiliary Task Rules

    • Scheduling | Schedule | Add Tasks | Inter-Group Dependencies

    • Scheduling | View | Interactive Dependencies | Vertical | …

 

Schedule: Task Attributes

  • Schedule | Attributes | Task Attributes

  • Defines attributes for all tasks in schedule

  • Master list of attributes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule Definition: Block Model Attributes

  • Defines new attributes for block model and specifies aggregation rules

  • Attributes not saved permanently in block model

  • Working attributes available only within Schedule Definition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule Definition: Task Type Attributes

  • Selects attributes from master list for tasks of this type

  • Defines selected attributes using combinations of:

    • Wireframe Attributes = Aggregated block model attributes saved as attributes on intermediate wireframes

    • Core & Task Attributes = core and other attributes of reference task

    • Task Categories = categories defined by Schedule | Task Types | Categories

  • Attributes for this task type