Underground Planning Solution

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Overview of CAE’s Comprehensive Solution for Underground Mining

CAE Mining supplies the world’s most popular software tools for underground mine planning, including Mine2-4D and our successor product CAE Studio 5D Planner, Enhanced Production Scheduler (EPS), Mineable Shape Optimizer (MSO), iRing and Ventsim. These established industry-leading products form an unparalleled integrated toolset for underground mine planning.

Whether for an active mine production environment or a potential mine from concept through to bankable feasibility stage, CAE Mining’s solution will help you to design, plan and schedule all aspects of your underground mine. In addition, detailed cost estimation and project tracking is available through Hard Dollar, an industry-leading project cost management application.

From Concept to Detailed Mine Plan

CAE Mining provides several tools for the strategic planning of underground mining operations. These tools are designed to answer the question: “How do we maximise the value of our mine?”.

The Mineable Reserves Optimizer (MRO) determines the optimal mining envelopes within which stopes should be designed. This product is ideal for preliminary underground reserve estimation featuring Floating Stope™ algorithms that float a Minimum Mining Unit (MMU) shape throughout a resource model to determine a mining reserve.

Strategic Planning & Optimization

The Mineable Shape Optimizer (MSO) automatically produces optimized stope designs which maximise the value of recovered ore within the given geometry and design constraints. It supports massive, sub-vertical and flat horizontal deposits and can quickly generate individual stope designs within a resource model.

CAE’s Mine Layout Optimizer (MLO) produces optimal decline designs satisfying access requirements and design criteria. MLO assists with rapid engineering at the analysis stages of a project as well as being a valuable aid to subsequent detailed designs.

• Comprehensive 3D design and visualization environment with integrated plotting

• New“Smart”Workflowindicatestaskorderandcurrentstatus

• Visualminingsequenceworkspacecombininguseofautomatedrulesandmanually “linking” of activities

• Automaticevaluationofdesignsagainstageologicalmodelfortonnesandgrade reporting

• Livelinkbetweenscheduleanddesignenvironmentsforefficientandeffectivescheduleauditing

• ShareyourminescheduleanimationsinPDF3Dwithouttheneedforrecipientstoinstallspecializedsoftware

• Securelymanagedataacrossmultipleprojectsanduserswiththein-builtprojectmanagementsolution

Enhanced Production Scheduler (EPS) is integrated with Mine2-4D and CAE Studio 5D Planner or can be usedasastandaloneapplication.EPShasafullGanttchartschedulerdesignedspecificallyformining,withindustry-specificfunctionalitynotavailableinoff-the-shelfschedulers.

The CAE Mining underground planning solution includes functionality to complete operational tasks including ventilation modeling, drill and blast design, and a CAD platform for producing detailed engineering drawings, level plans and cross sections.

Ventsim Visual is a mine ventilation modeling and simulation application featuring a full 3D visual interface with real-time animation of airflow & ventilation controls. This program accurately simulates airflow, contaminant dispersion, thermodynamic heat and moisture. Financial evaluation functions are also available for analysis of capital and operating costs of ventilation systems.

Comprehensive drill and blast functionality is provided in an easy-to-use flowsheet style interface via the iRing application. The user can rapidly design drill holes, charging and detonation, with integrated plotting along with the ability to download ring designsdirectlytothedrillusingIREDESspecification.

Deswik.CAD is the full mine drafting and CAD package for producing and issuing drawings and mining instructions. It has full CAD drafting capabilities in 3D including annotation, title blocks and multiple viewport and can handle large datasets with ease and speed.

Operations

Cost Estimation & Control

CAE Mining has recently released CAE Studio 5D Planner as an upgrade to the highly popular Mine2-4D design and scheduling product.

CAE Studio 5D Planner features include:

Scheduling

CAE Mining has teamed up with Hard Dollar to provide mining customers with seamless integration of the design and schedule with financialevaluation.Usingourintegratedsolution, impacts of design or schedule changes areinstantlyassessedinthelinkedfinancialmodel, and the delays and errors associated with manual transcription of data and spread sheet errors are eliminated. The solution includes optional modules for cost control, trackingandbenchmarking–idealforefficientlymanaging schedule implementation.

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