Blendopt simultaneously optimises how ore should be stockpiled, processed, and blended with the goal of maximizing revenue and reducing costs. Orebody personnel is a wa owned mining recruitment company specialising in processing, maintenance and mining personnel to the australian and overseas resource sector. Build, optimise, and evaluate a variety of scenarios throughout the life of mine. The mine planning software foundation course is a comprehensive threeday course designed for mining and resource industry professionals including mine planners, mining engineers. It enables you to maximise the value of your deposit without compromising.
These elements provide an extended mathematical framework that allows modeling and direct integration of orebody uncertainty to mine design, production planning, and valuation of mining. Mining strategy formulation or strategic mine planning can be viewed as. Orebody modelling and strategic mine planning find, read and cite all the research. Application of computers and operations research in the minerals industries, south african institute of mining and metallurgy, 2003.
As orebody knowledge improves, technical and operational parameters and conditions are better understood. Having a basic understanding of the orebody modeling and the mine optimization methods used can help investors determine how much effort a company places into the quantification of risk to manage their assets. Strategic mine planning flexible mine planning to meet. Orebody modelling and strategic mine planning smp 2014. Realistic quantification of downstream processes applied to orebody. The effect on fi nancial return of grade uncertainty, dilution, and ore model block size is discussed. Mining software assists open pitcut and underground mines with everything from planning and design to the management of operations for all phases of a mining. The following is a selection of technical papers presented by jktech personnel at conferences over the past five years. Orebody modelling and strategic mine planning smp 2014 is a threeday international symposium that highlights the latest advances, technologies, practices and concerns in the field. The in situ model, representing perfect knowledge at all relevant.
To the best of my knowledge and belief this thesis contains no material previously. Orebody modelling and strategic mine planning smp 2014 is a twoday international symposium that highlights the latest advances, technologies, practices and concerns in the field. Proceedings of the international symposium on orebody modelling and strategic mine planning. Using mip for strategic lifeof mine planning of the leadlzinc stream at mount isa mines. Blasor blended ironore mine planning optimisation at. The strategic mine planning and optimization course is a comprehensive fiveday course designed for mining and resource industry professionals including directors, project managers, mine planners, mining.
The planning process begins with a good threedimensional geological resource model. A brief look at geological and technical risk analysis in. The result is effectively an integrated business model that embodies the existing knowledge on geological, engineering, metallurgical and orebody modelling and strategic mine planning. One of the challenges is to accommodate flexibilty in planning to. Advances in applied strategic mine planning is a collection of. Mine design, planning, and scheduling software solutions.
Adam has joined orebody mining services in a recruitment business development role and brings to orebody a history of loyalty and trust which he endeavours to pass onto clients and contractors. Minemax are pleased to be a major sponsor of orebody modelling and strategic mine planning smp 2014 at perth in november. View 16 orebody mining services jobs at jora, create free email alerts and never miss another career opportunity again. These aspects create better business optimisation and utilisation of. But building the best plan requires informed decisions. We will also be contributing through a paper, short course and the exhibition. Underground mining is also served by new software for development optimization. Bhp billiton followed by developing the blasor mine planning software, which. Mandela mining precinct, cnr carlow and rustenburg rd, melville, johannesburg glass rock seeing into the rock the main focus of the advanced orebody knowledge programme, one of six programmes of the south african mining extraction, research, development and innovation samerdi strategy is to provide mine. Maptek evolution produces short, medium, long term and strategic life of mine schedules alongside practical production plans.
Our highlevel strategic mine planning and pit optimization software enables you to understand the potential. Pandell landworks is cloud based land management software for mining companies used to gain efficiencies in land management, gis, and payables workflow. Paradyns blendopt software provides mining value chain planning and management. Advances in applied strategic mine planning ausimm. Review of commercial mining software functionalities for underground. A holistic approach to mine planning 6 this study took the concept one step further by incorporating the schedule and landform together in order to make a seamless mine plan including all factors from mine. Underground hardrock mine design and planning bibliotheque et. Advancing strategic mine planning a software perspective c tonkin 5. Software and planning mine optimisation big savings can be made on the bottom line. The strategic mine planning and optimization course is a comprehensive five day course.
Orebody model mine design production scheduling financial and production forecasts traditional view unknown, true answer single, often. This publication, produced by springer, is a follow up to ausimms spectrum series publication. The strategic mine planning and optimization course is a comprehensive fiveday course. Minerp has a proud history of developing reliable, yet cutting edge solutions to optimise the process of mine planning and scheduling. Advances in applied strategic mine planning pdf ausimm. Using mip for strategic lifeofmine planning of the lead. Equiprobable realizations of grade within the orebody. A holistic approach to mine planning can create value and present. Mining project valuation orebody model mine design production scheduling financial and production forecasts traditional view unknown, true answer single, often precise, wrong answer reserves probability 1 single estimated model risk oriented view accurate uncertainty estimation reserves probability multiple probable 1 models mining process or transfer function. The strategic mine planning and optimization course is a comprehensive fiveday course designed for mining and resource industry professionals including directors, project managers, mine planners, mining engineers, geoscientists, geologists, managers, metallurgists, financial analyst, and decision makers from exploration to operations. By peter mccarthy honfausimmcp, director, amc consultants pty ltd.
Blasor blended ironore mine planning optimisation at yandi. Strategic mine planning course optitek mining consulting ltd. Newman colorado school of mines august 18, 2008 if you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano. Leon blackwell from our perth office will present a paper entitled capital expenditure modelling for strategic mine.
Experience and knowledge play an important role in the design and planning process. In block caving and solution mining applications, a realistic solution is even. Optimising combined open pit and underground strategic plan. Our mine planning solution allows you to shorten planning. In mining applications, the emphasis has largely been. Maptek evolution enables users to maximise the value of a deposit without compromising operations. Whittle helped us extend our bench across the orebody. Strategic mine planning is concerned with the manner in which orebodies. Deswik mining for provision of an academic license and software.
To assist mine planners in producing robust mine plans. Classical and stochastic mine planning techniques, state of the art. Global asset optimisation integrated strategic planning. Geometallurgya route to more resilient mine operations mdpi. Minemax planner pit optimization, rapid project evaluation, financial and grade risk analysis. Strategic mine planning is the process where the mine planning process is integrated and aligned with the strategic objectives of the company which involves continuous adjustments to changes in the.
Et al 2014, optimisation of drill and blast for mill throughput improvement at ban houayxai mine. Mine planning is an important first step in the development of underground and surface mining facilities as part of a continuous mine planning process. This publication is a follow up to the spectrum series publication. Value changes tend to have a greater magnitude of influence on the mine.
Blasor blended iron ore mine planning optimisation at yandi, orebody modelling and strategic mine planning, ausimm spectrum series v. The role of mine planning in high performance ausimm bulletin. Stochastic optimization for strategic mine planning. Geometallurgya route to more resilient mine operations. Gemcom software international has released gemcom whittle 4. Strategic mine planning software australian mining. Mine planning software foundation 3 days who should attend the mine planning software foundation course is a comprehensive threeday course designed for mining and resource industry professionals including mine planners, mining engineers, geoscientists, geologists, and managers from exploration to operations. According to best knowledge to date, there exists only one known method.
Infuse your orebody knowledge into your entire mine planning process with maptek mine planning and design solutions. Build, optimise, and evaluate a variety of scenarios throughout the life of mine to ensure you produce operationally viable schedules that align with your site goals. For all your recruitment enquiries, adam will be happy to assist. Advances in orebody modelling and strategic mine planning i. With specified functionality developed for most mining. Mine design technician provides support to the mine design engineers and input into the mining operation to meet the strategic and tactical mine plan. In this strategic context, high performance is not synonymous with having a low cost per. Professor peter dowd has more than 40 years experience in academic research, teaching and administration and in consulting to industry. Mine planning and schedule optimization software minemax. Open pit mine planning and design is an ideal textbook for courses in surface mine design, open pit design, geological and excavation engineering, and in advanced open pit mine planning and design, and can also be a priceless reference resource for active professionals around the world. A back to basics approach to mining strategy formulation saimm.
This months im mining spotlight feature article, direct from the pages of the november 2010 issue of international mining, is a comprehensive look at developments in software for designing and operating mines, starting with a nod to its critical role in the dramatic san jose mine. Harnessing uncertainty for orebody modelling and strategic. This article briefly describes some aspects of geological and technical risk analysis in mine planning. Com mercial optimal mine exploitation technology comet optimizer software, which analyzes cutoff, mine schedules, mill throughput, and recovery, is presented. A new mine planning paradigm is considered herein, integrating two elements. Blendopt helps to construct an integrated plan where mining. It produces medium, long term and strategic life of mine schedules which reduce operating costs. Strategic and tactical mine planning components due to these issues, it is generally seen that value changes tend to be greatest in the strategic area planning, whereas cost and efficiency changes tend to be predominant in the tactical area the doing.
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