— INTELLIGENT MINING SOLUTIONS

MineScapeGeological modeling, mine planning and design

Specifically developed to meet the mining industry’s rigorous demands, MineScape is used at more than 200 of the world’s most complex mining operations.

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Rebounding from relatively low levels of capital investment and exploration spending, many mining companies are striving to achieve production targets to maximize return on investment.

Today’s mining companies are increasingly under pressure to maximize output from existing operations and open new source of production. With its database, geological modeling and mine planning and design capabilities, MineScape can help you meet the challenge of increasing production and efficiency

—Mining challenges

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MineScape Core is a fully-integrated mining-focused 3D CAD system supporting custom programming and reporting. It provides a comprehensive mining-oriented feature library including surface manipulation, gridding, and transaction and spreadsheet management facilities as well as direct viewing of AutoCAD® Esri® shape files and comprehensive plotting functionality.

The solution provides an easy-to-use and functionally-rich interface designed to create professional output of graphical designs in 2D or 3D PDF format to enhance the visualization and communication designs using standard Adobe® Reader software.

From nickel mining in Russia to platinum group metals mining in South Africa to coal mining in Indonesia, MineScape provides mining operations worldwide with a suite of integrated solutions designed for open cut and underground mines for coal and metalliferous deposits. Delivering extensive geological modeling and mine planning and design functionality, MineScape offers exceptional ease-of-use through:

• True simultaneous multi-user environment allowing access to all 3D data and models over networks

• Advanced CAD features

• Sophisticated 3D graphics engine

• Complex stratigraphic modeling functionality including reverse faulting

• Integration of the geological database with modeling and the 3D graphics environment

• Sophisticated drill and blast design tools

• Surface/stratigraphy-bound block model interpolation

• Volume and reserves calculation

MineScape is the geological modeling and mine planning component of ABB’s Intelligent Mining Solutions (IMS), the most comprehensive and effective IT solution for the mining industry. IMS seamlessly integrates information flows between all mining activities and lowers mining costs through smarter use of technology and information management systems.

—Core MineScape

—The MineScape solution

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—Geological modeling plug-ins

— Geological Database (GDB)Using the powerful Oracle DB platform MineScape’s Geological Database stores downhole survey, lithology and quality data and also produces standard, summary and custom, user-defined reports. GDB graphically displays data such as lithology, intervals, downhole geophysics as well as allowing geologists to conduct correlations, compositing, washability calculations and classical 2D geostatistical studies.

— StratmodelMineScape Stratmodel empowers geologists with the ability to complete stratigraphic modeling of inherently complex environments. Stratmodels advanced structural capabilities enable geologists to gain accurate and detailed understandings of subsurface structures influencing their deposits.

— Block ModelMineScape’s Block Model empowers geologists and engineers with the ability to efficiently and accurately model both stratified and non-stratified deposits using conventional and industry standard block modeling tools and processes. Users can generate models and interpolate geological data to, in turn, develop wireframe solids as well as export to third party optimization engines such as GEOVIA® Whittle 4D.

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—Mine design and planning plug-ins

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Open CutMineScape’s Open Cut plug-in allows mine design and planning engineers to generate and test mine designs for short-term production operations and long-term feasibility studies. Engineers can also design haul roads interactively in 3D and determine cut and fill requirements for mass balancing and optimization. Automatically generate reports to communicate plans with survey and construction personnel in graphical or text formats.

— DraglineMineScape’s Dragline plug-in allows mine design engineers to apply a variety of burden movement techniques including pre-strip, cast blasting and production earthworks to simulate the execution of total pit burden removal strategies.

— Drill & BlastMineScape’s Drill & Blast plug-in provides drill and blast engineers with sophisticated tools to quickly lay out an optimum blast pattern, project blast holes to surfaces, and renumber, resequence and export hole layout reports to GPS-equipped drill rigs. It can also produce plans showing blast exclusion zones for simple communications around operational blasting.

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—Specialized plug-ins

— Underground CoalThis plug-in allows underground coal mine design engineers to quickly produce and test short- and long-term plans for longwall and room & pillar mine designs, then visualize and manipulate these designs at any stage of the plan development using MineScape’s interactive 3D CAD suite.

— ScheduleThis powerful and customizable scheduling engine enables mine planning engineers to optimize the mining method and sequence by providing material movement and machine activities forecasts for short- and long-term operations, delivering better predictability and reliability with respect to tonnage and production outputs.

— Ring DesignMineScape’s Ring Design plug-in is purpose-built for underground metals mining operations; it empowers engineers with the ability to create designs for block caving operations, long-hole and cut & fill stope mining methods. Design parameters can be replicated and semi-automated through the use of templates saving time and resulting in accurate, repeatable designs.

— Pit OptimizationThis plug-in provides the mining engineer with a simple, easy-to-use solution to delineate an ultimate economic pit shell. Pit Optimization utilizes the power of MineScape CAD while directly accessing MineScape block models to simplify the pit optimization process.

— Software Developer’s Kit (SDK)The SDK allows customers to create their own MineScape plug-ins containing menus, toolbars and forms so that they can create and access customized functions built using MineScape Programming Language.

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Lowering costs, maximizing efficiency in operations and saving time is at the top of the agenda for all operations, and MineScape allows you to achieve exactly that in your mining operation. Designed to automate mine planning and geologic analysis, it streamlines your engineering processes, improves your productivity and increases your profit potential.

—The benefits

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