Dassault Systèmes and Alford Mining Systems to develop Stope Optimizer

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Stope Shape Optimization – Enhanced underground engineering solution for Surpac in 2018

We are pleased to announce that Dassault Systèmes and Alford Mining Systems (AMS) have signed a distribution agreement that will see the AMS Stope Shape Optimizer (SSO) software embedded and distributed within GEOVIA Surpac.

What is the Stope Shape Optimizer?

The AMS SSO software generates optimum stope shapes for a range of underground mining methods and produces stope inventories from a block model that spatially represents the location of the mineralization.

SSO provides a stope shape that maximizes recovered resource value above cut-off grade whilst also catering for practical mining parameters such as minimum and maximum mining width, anticipated wall dilutions, minimum and maximum wall angles, minimum separation distances between parallel and sub-parallel stopes, and minimum and maximum stope heights and widths.

Integration of the SSO software within Surpac will benefit underground mining customers and facilitate a seamless user experience.

We are starting work on this development soon and will keep you posted- watch this space!

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Andy Mulholland

Andy Mulholland

Portfolio Management Director, GEOVIA at Dassault Systèmes
Andy is a mechanical engineer with over 20 years’ experience in heavy industry across mining, energy and oil & gas, and more than 15 years in enterprise software including cloud and SaaS solutions. Andy currently leads the portfolio strategy and product management functions for GEOVIA’s natural resources software business.