Surface Mine Scheduling
From copper to coal, open pit to strip mining, MineSched provides complete long-term and short-term schedules. Working from block or grid models, MineSched can schedule pit push backs and mining benches with ease.
- Schedule from block, polygonal and grid models with any number of materials and qualities.
- Graphically sequence mining blocks while reporting tonnage and grade.
- Control all aspects of the schedule or use MineSched’s target-based scheduling algorithms.
- Incorporate mining directions, bench lags, face geometry, location limits and other mining constraints to ensure practical schedules.
- Schedule ancillary activities such as drilling, blasting, and back filling.
- Include material movement to stockpiles, processes, and spatially modeled waste dumps.
Surface Mine Scheduling
Production
MineSched meets all production needs for both surface and underground operations. With total flexibility in resource definition, the software supports long term feasibility studies, detailed shift-by-shift scheduling of resources, mining, and ancillary activities. Mining constraints can be applied to ensure that practical schedules are generated.
MineSched enables users to model and manage stockpiles and processes. Waste dump designs can be block modelled and a filling strategy defined based on geotechnical, environmental and financial considerations. As well as automating waste scheduling, reporting and 3D visualisation, the software also generates a spatial database of the materials within the dump, which is critical for both long term dump management and reclamation.
Create Surface mine schedules with mining activities and stockpile blending.
Production Blending
MineSched's Production Blending features employ proprietary blending algorithms to meet grade targets at the mine, on stockpiles, and at the processing plant. These algorithms are a unique combination of satisficing and optimising sub-algorithms, which are dynamically applied as the schedule is created. It is the combination of the sub-algorithms which delivers both excellent results and performance.
With MineSched's Production Blending capabilities, stockpile strategies can be improved, resulting in to lower costs. When choosing the best blocks to mine, MineSched does not just look at the blocks available at the surface or at the face. It looks ahead to see what blocks will become available in the future, utilising this information in the decision-making process. The user can control how far ahead MineSched looks and the discount factor it applies to blocks mined in the future. MineSched allows planning engineers to reduce or eliminate expensive stockpiling strategies. Where stockpiles are necessary, it delivers an optimal stockpile strategy that minimises re-handle and the requirement for outsourced materials.
