Underground Mine Scheduling Workflows

  • Resource model

  • Stope optimisation

  • Development centrelines

    • Underground design

    • Validation

  • Development network reserves with attributes for sequencing

  • Inter-group dependencies between development and stopes

 

Summary

  1. Prepare resource block model.

  2. Generate stope designs.

    • Calculate attributes from resource block model.

  1. Define centrelines for underground development network.

    • Connect and set directions as required.

    • Extrude centrelines to solids.

  1. Divide development solids into advance lengths.

    • Calculate attributes from resource block model.

  1. Set dependencies between development and stopes.

    • Use network structure and advance-stope adjacencies.

    • Apply custom rules as required.

Steps

  • Prepare resource block model

  • Generate stope designs and calculate attributes

    • New from resource block model

      • Mining | Resource Optimisation | Stope Optimiser

    • OR … Calculate attributes for existing designs from resource block model

      • Wireframe | Assign | Attribute Assign | From Block Model

      • OR … Schedule Definition > Task Wireframes

  • Define centrelines for underground development network

    • Mining | Mine Design | Underground Design

      • Connect network elements and set directions as required

      • Validate network

        • Modify | Validate

  • Extrude centrelines to solids, cut into advance lengths and calculate attributes

    • Mining | Task Preparation | Development Solids

      • Calculate attributes from resource block model

        • Wireframe | Assign | Attribute Assign | From Block Model

      • OR … Schedule Definition > Development Networks

  • Set dependencies between development and stopes

    • Use network structure and advance-stope adjacencies

    • Apply custom rules as required

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