Spatial Conformetrics is a platform for consistent mine plan conformance calculations. Mine planners and schedulers use Conformetrics to objectively analyse assumptions, methodologies and implementation practices.

Practical Applications

Short Term & Production Scheduling

Fast Mine Plan Conformance:

Simply import surfaces, automatically generate conformance domains, and export your custom reports.

Automatic Solid Creation:

Instantly convert overlapping surfaces into stacked solids. Most mining packages only support single Boolean operations on triangulations – SCTP automatically converts up to seven unique conformance domains into fully validated 3D solids in one step.

Increase Planning Efficiency:

Reduce time validating solids and surfaces. Get live updates of reserves values based on your reporting regions. Feed conformance reports back into the planning process for faster, more accurate mine plans.

Mid - Long Term Planning

Stage Plan Generation Tools:

Import a schedule, surfaces and blocks to create stage plans for any period in the schedule.

Performance Improvement:

Use SCTP to objectively analyse mine planning assumptions, methodologies and implementation practices.

Communicate Business Value:

Conformance to plan affects pit development, blend ratios and haul profiles. Use hard numbers to demonstrate the real business cost of non-conformance to schedules.

Performance Management

Key Performance Indicators:

Consistent KPI calculations for mine plan conformance across crews, sites and organisations.

Standardised Reporting:

Make black-box reporting a thing of the past. Anyone can import surfaces into the SCTP and start generating maps, charts and reports.

Increased Confidence:

Use historical conformance calculations to increase confidence in budget estimations and production forecast

Innovative Features

Solids & Surfaces

Full 3D Viewport:

Robust 3D viewport which allows viewing from any angle.

Automatic Solid Creation:

Instantly convert overlapping surfaces into stacked solids. Solids are closed, valid and immediately start generating reserves.

Stage Plan Generation:

Generate valid stage plans from an existing schedule.

Advanced Layer Merge Functions:

Calculate composite surfaces with an intuitive and powerful merge utility.

Reserving

Block Model Import:

Import multiple block models CSV or BMF format.

Real-Time Reserving:

Geological reserves are automatically run, allowing you to immediately see the geological properties of conformance domains.

Simple Setup:

Specify how geological information is aggregated with a simple interface which supports unlimited attributes and multiple material types within the same block.

Extensible with Formulas & Scripting:

If your block model is missing vital information, you can easily add new calculated attributes with simple formulas. If you need to do more complex calculations, you have access to full C# scripting.

Reporting

Conformance Shading:

Shade conformance solids based on domains, making it easy to identify planned and unplanned movement for presentations.

Conformance Reports:

Generate conformance and performance calculations across multiple pits, material types, and block model properties using a standard pivot table format.

Waterfall Charts:

Use the power of visual communication to show the inter-locking components of plan conformance and performance.

Import/Export:

Export conformance surfaces, solids and reserves to DXF, .00t and CSV.

Terminology

Mining Terms

Block model	Reserves file
Parcel	Classification of materials in the reserves file.
Conformance horizon	3D surface representing Schedule Start, Schedule End, Survey Start, or Survey End. Used for determining conformant volumes.
Conformance domain	3D volume representing Mined Early, Mined Late, Mined in Plan, Mined Outside Plan, and Not Mined conformance types.
Scheduling blocks	3D solids used for scheduling cut and fill in mining operations.
Solid	3D closed triangulation.
Stage Plan	The expected topography at a point in time in the schedule.
Surface	3D triangulation without overlaps.

User Interface

Viewport	Any 3D visualisation area
Tab	Tabbed working area
Panel	Interactive frame within a tab
Dialog	A new window that opens to enter information
Dropdown	A dropdown box that lets you choose from a list
Icon / Button	A button that can be pressed
Checkbox	A box that can be ticked on or off

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