Mining CAD / One connected model

From drillhole to final landform

Model, optimise, design and schedule open pits and underground mines in one fast mining CAD.

01Data

Start from the drillholes

Import collars, surveys and assays and work with your drilling in 3D, on real terrain.

931: drillholes
25k: survey points

02Geology

Model the orebody

Interpret lodes and build block models with grades and densities in the same workspace.

3: lodes
1.24M: blocks

03Optimisation

Find the pit that pays

Run pit optimisation across revenue factors and compare every shell on tonnes, strip ratio and value.

5: nested shells
104 Mt: RF1.00 shell

04Pit design

Design a pit you can mine

Design benches, berms and haul ramps to your geotechnical zones, and check every face against its slope.

15: benches
9%: ramp grade

05Mining packets

Break it into mining packets

Split pushbacks into dig blocks, each with its own tonnes, grade and precedence, ready to schedule.

3,909: dig blocks
5: pushbacks

06Scheduling

Schedule every tonne

Schedule ore, waste and stockpiles month by month, with slope precedence held throughout.

121: months
16 Mt/yr: mining rate

07Final landform

See where it all ends up

Pits, dumps and haul roads in one model, from the first drillhole to the final landform.

160.8 Mt: moved
8.4 Mt: ore processed

08Underground design

Then go underground

Design stopes, declines, levels and raises alongside the open pit, in the same model.

584: stopes
41 km: development

09Underground schedule

Schedule every stope

Sequence development, stoping and backfill, and track ore, metres and fill month by month.

0.7 Mt/yr: run rate
10.9 Mt: ore mined

About the data

Closed alpha

Ask for an invite

Invitations go out from 1 October to a small group of mining engineers. Tell us what you design and where your current software slows you down.

Illustrative dataset: a fictional mine loosely based on public Thalanga (Queensland) exploration data. Not a resource, reserve or mine plan. Data sources and licences.

About the data

Where this mine comes from

The drilling is real and public. Everything built on it was modelled for this demonstration. It is a model on open data, not a real mine plan.

Drillholes, assays and geology

State of Queensland (Geological Survey of Queensland), NEQ Deposit Atlas – Thalanga, DS100103

Drillhole collars, surveys, assays and lithology logs from the public Thalanga deposit atlas. The source workbook credits the local collar, assay and lithology tables to Red River Resources (unpublished, 2023).

CC BY 4.0 Dataset ↗Licence metadata ↗

Terrain

ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003 – NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Spacesystems and the U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team

The ground surface starts from the DEM supplied in the same Queensland package, which its workbook credits to ASTER GDEM v3 (distributed by NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC). It is smoothed and extended for display; its height datum is not validated.

ASTER GDEM V003 ↗

Modelled for this demo

What is ours, and what is not

Everything after the drilling – the lode interpretation, block model, pit optimisation, pit and ramp design, dumps, roads, plant, schedules and the underground mine – was modelled for this demonstration.
Economics, costs and productivities are illustrative assumptions, not a study. None of it is a Mineral Resource, Ore Reserve, mine plan or forecast.
The mine is fictional. It is loosely based on public Thalanga (Queensland) data and does not describe the real Thalanga operation, its owners or its plans.
The ground texture, creeks and vegetation are procedural; no satellite or aerial imagery is used.
Use of this data does not imply endorsement by the State of Queensland, Red River Resources, NASA, METI or any other data provider.

Contains modified data from the State of Queensland (Geological Survey of Queensland), NEQ Deposit Atlas – Thalanga (DS100103), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Changes to the source data: drilling cleaned and filtered, coordinates translated to a local grid, lode solids interpreted, grades interpolated, and synthetic additions made where data is sparse.

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