Convert strategic mine plans into practical mine designs including mine surfaces, ramps, tunnels, haul roads, waste dump, whilst also producing reserve reports and mine plans. Encompasses all design horizons including daily, weekly, monthly and long term.

• Design bench, berm and ramps constraints for surface mining
• Design stopes, tunnels, ramps and shafts for underground mining
• Design waste dumps, tailing dams and haul roads for mining infrastructure
• Incorporate geotechnical constraints such as slope stability
• Integrate geology for reserve reporting of grade, tonnes and volumes
• Produce mine plans and visual outputs for communication with production crews

Drill and Blast Designer

Design and plan suitable blast patterns to ensures monthly production tonnage targets are met, factoring in safety, materials and costs associated while looking for ways to reduce costs and improve performance.

• Surface mining – efficient design of bench blast patterns considering blast hole layout, load and charging, detonation sequence and blast solids
• Underground mining – efficient design of underground ring or drill & blast patterns considering blast hole layout, load & charging, detonation sequence and drill rig parameters
• Produce reports, plans and visual outputs for production crews and required reporting for costs and volumetrics against targets

Stope Optimizer

Create and consider multiple possible stope designs to determine the optimal design that meets a set of strategic objectives, often tied to extracting the highest possible economic value from a deposit.

• Generate optimum stope designs for a range of underground mining methods
• Produce stope inventories from block models that spatially represent the location of mineralization
• Generate stope designs that maximize recovered resource value above cut-off grade
• Create practical mining parameters such as minimum and maximum mining width, anticipated wall dilutions, minimum and maximum wall angles and many other factors

GEOVIA Surpac 2024 provides mining companies with the powerful, reliable, and customizable 3D mine planning and geological modelling software they need to deliver advanced drillhole-data management, perform rigorous statistical and geostatistical analyses, and develop comprehensive resource models, mine designs, and mine plans for either open pit or underground operations.

With Surpac, geologists can quantify and evaluate the physical characteristics of a deposit, even with limited information. Engineers can visualize mine designs and plans that maximize ore recovery while complying with project constraints. Mine production teams can integrate vast amounts of data to determine the best way to extract reserves.

Catch up on the latest software releases from GEOVIA. Our expert Glenn Barlow, Industry Process Director will be taking you through the latest release highlights from GEOVIA. In this session he will cover the following topics:

Geology Modelling

• Introduction to implicit geology modelling
• Localised faulting
• Dynamic anisotropy
• Discontinuous intrusions
• Control Lines

Strategic Mine Planning

• Introduction to pit optimiser and strategic mine planner role
• The GMX Algorithm
• Constraints, capacities and costs
• Reporting

Parametric Mine Design

• Introduction to next generation parametric design
• Smart ramp design
• Manual modifications
• Dynamic associative update of designs

Surpac 2024 Enhancements 

• Geotiff, drillhole planning and new caving module
• Collaborative designer for Surpac – Geoscience, point clouds and improved search