To celebrate another year gone by, we’ve rounded up our top 10 posts of 2016 as chosen by our readers! Here’s what you enjoyed reading over the past 12 months.
1. The Three Phases of Mine Planning
Good mine planning ensures the profitable and effective implementation of your mining strategy and reduces the financial risks involved.Written in 2014, this post still remains our most read every year! The three phases of mine planning ensure that the highest value is received from an open cut mine based on a practical schedule, which is implemented in a shorter planning horizon. From practical NPV schedules to Simultaneous Optimization and then Tactical Implementation, this post is part 3 of our Strategic Mine Planning series. Read more
2. Six Steps to Effective Mine Production Management and Why It’s Important
Better management of production mining activities continues to be a key challenge for our customers. Our post outlines the six steps to effective production management and Operational Stability, such as intuitive reporting, fast deployment, complete integration capability with all systems and having a single source of truth, among others. Read more
3. Ten Steps for Extracting Drillholes as a String File in Surpac
Knowing the location of a drillhole is very important from both a design and safety perspective. By extracting the database as a string file, users can look at the drillholes they are interested in. Our post on the 10 steps to extract your drillhole database proved to be one of the most popular in 2016. Read more
4. How to Download GEOVIA Applications
In November, we launched a new way to download GEOVIA software applications and provided a quick blog post showing how this can be done. Previously, users had to create a media order, which is no longer required. Software updates will now be available through the 3DS Support website and you will still continue to be notified via email that this is available to download. Read more
5. Using Minex to Better Understand Coal Deposits
Coal seam splitting is a common occurrence that can often be challenging for geological resource modeling and extraction. Only by better understanding the nature of the deposit will geologists be able to model their deposits accurately and efficiently with the least amount of resource wastage. Our Minex users found this blog post useful in better understanding the two types of modeling methods in Minex: Ply Splitting and Father/Son. Read more
6. How to Model a Fault in Surpac
Our post shows how simple and efficient the fault modeling menu in Surpac is, particularly in creating surfaces where only one edge has been observed in the field. This function is also useful for georegistering a scanned cross section or geophysical profile in Surpac. Read more
7. Validating a CMS Pickup in Surpac
The Cavity Monitor System (CMS) function in Surpac is particularly useful for Mining Engineers as validated CMS data can be used in stope performance reports. Read more
8. Using Location Constraints in MineSched
Ivan Alvarez, Mining Engineer at Dassault Systèmes GEOVIA, walks through the different types of location constraints in MineSched in this blog post, to ensure accurate configuration of the location(s) at which the material will be mined. Read more
9. Why is Surpac so dogmatic about validation of solid models?
To understand Surpac’s approach to validation of solid models, it’s necessary to first understand what solid models are used for by geologists, surveyors or mining engineers. This post explains why it’s important to use solid modeling and the two most important features on the Solids Validation menu. Read more
10. Gaining Greater Understanding of Your Exploration Data
The tenth most read blog post of the year was a post on the new enhancements in Surpac and GEMS, in the area of geostatistics to enable a higher level of confidence in block model validation. Read more
We hope you enjoyed our roundup! If you would like to mention any other blog posts that you’ve found useful recently, please feel free to comment below. Here’s to 2017 and to more product Tips & Tricks!
