SC. Introduction
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 – Spacial Conformetrics 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 Spacial Conformetrics 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 Spacial Conformetrics 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
It is possible to import multiple block models using CSV, Vulcan, Bintab or MineSight files.
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”, “.csv” and “.obj”.
Terminology
Mining Terms
Block model | Reserves file |
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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 |
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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 |