AutoStoper Automatic Stope Design
Tool
Automatically and quickly builds many
stope triangulations based on block model and defined
economics.
Reports grade, tonnage, NSR, etc. for
each stope.
Adaptable to various underground bulk mining
methods.
Allows quick comparisons of various cutoffs or
stope parameters that would otherwise require months of
repetitive design work.
Based on 3-D block model of resource.
Blocks are combined into Selective Mining Units (panels)
arranged in rows.
Rows are searched for contiguous groups
of panels which match stoping requirements.
Qualifying
groups become “stopes”.
Fast method for testing incremental
cutoffs to make grade tonnage curves or “what-if” scenarios.
Iterative mining-method determinations:
1st pass selects low-cost bulk stopes
which are flagged in block model.
2nd
pass on unflagged blocks selects smaller high-cost higher
cutoff stopes.
Quick creation of thousands of stope
triangulations.
 
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