Surface Mine Scheduling -
Tactical Planning
Two Courses - 8 days
MINP 301 - Surface Mine Production Scheduling GEOVIA
MineSched™ Core
MINP 302: Compliance of Strategic and
Tactical Mine Plans - Advanced MineSched and Isight
Who Should Attend
Medium / short-term open pit
planning is an eight-day training split over two courses,
designed for the mine planners, mining engineers,
geologists, and technical managers who are responsible for
activities that require them to generate or oversee monthly
and weekly mine production schedules. The course is designed
to provide theory through lectures, complemented by a
hands-on real-world mine planning project using GEOVIA
MineSched and SIMULIA Isight. The
project covers all the required steps from a long-term
yearly schedule generated within a designed pit to a
monthly production schedule taking into account mining and
processing capacities, truck-shovel hours, drilling and
blasting, blending, and stockpiles management constraints.
Learn how to model and manage stockpiles and processes,
block modeled waste dumps followed by automated filling
strategies and waste scheduling. Also, reporting and 3D
visualization of a spatial database of the materials
within the waste-dump, which is critical for both
long-term waste dump management and reclamation. The
course covers the following topics:
• Medium/ short-term planning concepts
• Alignment of short-term plans with
strategic plans
• Parameters: rates, delays, priorities
• Quantity and quality targets
• Defining mining locations
•
Defining process streams
• Period
polygons: tonnage/grades
•
Reporting: Excel, Access, MS Project
• Animations
& presentation tools
Course Description
Software: Geovia MineSched and Simulia Isight
Medium / short-term open pit
planning is a three-day course designed for the mine
planners, mining engineers, geologists, and technical
managers who are responsible for activities that require
them to generate or oversee monthly and weekly mine
production schedules. The course is designed to provide
theory through lectures, complemented by a hands-on
real-world mine planning project using GEOVIA MineSched. The
project covers all the required steps from a long-term
yearly schedule generated within a designed pit to a monthly
production schedule taking into account mining and
processing capacities, truck-shovel hours, drilling and
blasting, blending, and stockpiles management constraints.
Mining constraints can be applied to ensure that practical
schedules are generated. Learn how to model and manage
stockpiles and processes, block modeled waste dumps followed
by automated filling strategies and waste scheduling. Also,
reporting and 3D visualization of a spatial database of the
materials within the waste-dump, which is critical for both
long-term waste dump management and reclamation. The course
covers the following topics:
• Medium/ short-term planning concepts
• Data preparation
• Parameters: rates, delays, priorities
• Quantity and quality targets
• Defining mining locations
• Defining process streams
• Period polygons: tonnage/grades
• Reporting: Excel, Access, MS Project
• Animations & presentation tools
Outcomes of the course include:
• Schedule from block, polygonal and
grid models
• Schedule with any number of elements,
material types.
• Schedule with different qualities of
material.
• Graphically sequence mining blocks
• Report tonnage and grade within
the sequence.
• Control all aspects of the schedule
• Use target-based scheduling
algorithms.
• Incorporate mining directions
• Incorporate bench lags/leads, face
geometry,
• include location limits, and other
mining constraints
• Generate practical minable
schedules.
• Schedule ancillary activities -
drilling, blasting.
• Schedule back filling.
• Include material movement to
stockpiles and processes.
• Material movement to spatially
modeled waste dumps.
• Blend material from mines and
stockpiles
• Blend material to meet targets at
plants, waste dumps.
• Produce schedules with reports &
graphical results.
• Visualize Mine Schedules with 2D and
3D Graphics.
• Display tonnage and grade attributes.
• View colored period and production
data.
• Generate intermediate mining
surfaces.
• Animate mining sequence as a movie or
frame-by-frame.
• Validate and communicate the sequence
of activities.
• Generate reports with production
tonnage and grade data.
• Produce polygon and bench reports.
• Obtain a detailed understanding of
the schedule.
• Communicate the results to
management.
• Create reverse vertical lag or
constant face distance.
• Design cut polygons on specific
layers
• Apply geometry rules to create new
polygons.
• Attach attributes to the mine cut
polygons.
• Sequence the mine polygons.
Module 1
1) Data storage and familiarization
a) Setup data
management hierarchy
b) Data review
2) Data editing and management
a) Block model
reporting
b) Determine the
tonnes and grades in rock types
c) Polygons for
graphical results
3) Block model material classes
a) Assign material
classes in the block model
4) Scenario management
a) Creating and
opening scenarios
5) Navigating the scenarios
a) Data grids &
Charts
b) Dashboard &
Spreadsheet views
6) Scenario parameters – geological model
data
a) Defining geological
models
b) Add the model for
scheduling
c) Assign material
classes for the schedule
d) Validate model
& check the model for errors
7) Scenario parameters – location
definition
a) Setup Schedule step
b) Define mining
locations
c) Define the two or
more mining locations for scheduling
d) Evaluate the
defined mining locations
Module 2
1) Mining constraints a) Mining rates
b) Resource availability
c) Physical constraints
2) Create schedule
a) Define a timeline for the schedule
b) Create the schedule
c) Add reports and charts to the dashboard
3) Publishing results
a) Create graphical results & animations
b) Standard and custom reports
c) Gantt charts
d) Block model Schedule
e) Analyzing the schedule
f) Adding calendars to resources
4) Sequencing the stages
a) Sequencing the stages using precedences
b) Sequencing the stages using priorities
5) Targets
a) Quality and Quantity targets
b) Add a quality target to the schedule
c) Add flexibility to the schedule
d) Explore the options for meeting the targets
e) Minimize the rehandling
f) Material ratio and strip ratio targets
g) Investigate effects of material classes on capacities
h) Create a schedule that has a constant ore production
i) Create a schedule that pre-strips waste
j) Location priority
6) Fill locations
a) Add the model that will be used for filling
b) Change the waste stockpile to use waste dumps.
Module 3
1) Make the schedule more practical a) Mining direction
b) Investigate the different mining directions
c) Investigate vertical-lag, horizontal-lag, maximum-lag
d) Swell factor.
e) Max number of benches and drop cuts
f) Max number of active benches per period
g) Production rate modifiers
2) Haulage and Tonne Km calculations
a) Adding Haulage to the schedule
b) Create haulage route strings
c) Reporting TKM
3) Short-term polygons
a) Creating polygons from the long-term schedule
b) Bench plans
c) End of period surfaces
d) Polygon mining vs. Bench Polygon mining
e) Polygon constraints
f) Polygon mining to a seam boundary
g) Polygon mining a single bench
h) Different polygons on separate benches
4) Polygon sequencing
a) Adding a polygon sequence
b) Graphically sequencing polygons
5) Ancillary activities
a) Drilling and blasting activity
b) Graphically animating the activities
c) Production activities (optional)