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MSO - Shape
To access this dialog:
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Select Shape on the MSO ribbon - the view that is displayed will depend on the status of your project (see below).
Stope-shape frameworks generally prescribe the orientation and three-dimensional constraints for determining stope-shapes, their allowable dimensions and the manner in which they are optimized.
The Shape Framework Settings Panel
This panel is used to define the Framework Type and define the sections/levels and other structural controls that will define your overall shape framework.
There are two possible presentations for this panel;
- New framework: If a shape framework has not yet been defined, you will be shown a simple view containing a button to Select a Stoping Method. This button displays the Stope Shape Selection Wizard.
- Existing framework: If you have already defined a framework type/geometry and orientation, you will be shown the existing settings for the framework (using the Shape Framework Settings panel. You can edit these settings, or change the framework type using the Change button, which redisplays the Stope Shape Selection Wizard.
Stope Optimization Methods
The Mineable Shape Optimizer tool supports the following shape frameworks:
- "Slice Method"
which generates and evaluates thin slices across the mineralized zones
that are aggregated into seed-shapes (looking at all possible permutations)
that satisfy stope and pillar width constraints. The seed-shapes are
then annealed to the final optimized stope-shape satisfying the stope
and pillar width, stope geometry constraints (e.g. wall dips angles,
strike twist, etc.), and other miscellaneous constraints (e.g. zone
mixing, exclusion zones, etc.). The result is a set of stope-shapes
constrained to the basic limitations of the envisaged mining method.
Slice method frameworks are available in either Standard or Advanced types.
Standard Slice Framework Settings
Advanced Slice Framework Settings - "Prism Method"
which optimally combines a set of shapes from a library of stope-volumes
within regions without allowing overlapping of the generated stopes.
It is typically applicable to massive orebodies or wide/thick deposits
whose stopes tend to be designed by blocking out the orebody in a
grid-like pattern.
Prism Framework Settings - "Boundary Surface Method"
for narrow high grade reefs or lenses, where subcell modelling has
some spatial accuracy limitations, it can prove more effective to
model stope shapes off the geological wireframes directly. The stope
walls are modelled as a mesh of points from [3x3] to [6x6] points.
Dilution, orebody positioning in the stope, and an option to
split the stope into waste and ore components, are provided.
Boundary Surface Framework Settings
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Stope Shape Selection WizardShape Framework SettingsStandard Slice Framework SettingsAdvanced Slice Framework SettingsPrism Framework SettingsBoundary Surface Framework Settings |
