
Explore the Surpac user interface, detailing menus, toolbars, layers, and the message window, and learn how to switch to geology or database profiles to access core mining tools.
Learn to build a geological database in Sabeg by structuring drill hole data into color, survey, interval, geology, and sample tables with coordinates, depth, dip, and azimuth.
Import Excel sheets to populate the Grillo drill-hole database, match columns, and refresh to view color, geology, and survey data in 3D drill holes.
Explore drillhole styling in Surpac to color drill holes by geology and assay data, create display styles from geology attributes, and visualize intercepts with color ranges.
Explore drill hole display options in Surpac by customizing colors, markers, labels, geology patterns, and graph views to compare samples and geology and support domain creation.
Create solid wireframes and volumetric solids to form the block model, then digitize sections from drill-hole data to build explicit geological models with grade shells and resource classifications.
Digitize drill holes, build a wireframe that encloses all data, validate the wireframe for a closed solid, then clean and standardize string directions to prepare for interpolation and block modeling.
Build a valid solid model by extruding and triangulating drill-hole segments, then validate and auto-correct mesh issues like open edges and intersecting triangles.
Compute the volume of a closed, valid ore body solid with solid tools, generate a volume report (pdf), and review extents, elevations, and total volume for resource estimation.
Create and constrain block models in Surpac using wireframes, define extents and block sizes, interpolate gold grade and density, and apply estimation methods to optimize geology.
Learn to perform drill hole compositing in Surpac and prepare downhole data for estimation. Apply inverse distance weighting interpolation to generate a block model and visualize results.
Geovia Surpac is one the most used software in the mining industry, it allows mining engineers and geologist to perform alot of tasks in different levels in the life of a mine. With this powerful mining package geologists can create geological databases and model ore bodies using explicit modelling method the ore body solid is used later to constraint a block model and do ressource estimation. Surpac is also a CAD tool that offers some advanced features for mine design ( open pit and underground). This course will cover the basics of modelling in surpac , we will start with creating a geological database and the cover how to create solid ore body using the explicit method. An introduction to block modelling in surpac is also included and this section will be updated soon with more videos that covers the ressource estimation process. Upon the request of students more lectures will be added to this course based on their need , i m also planning on adding a full mine design section to this course to make it the only surpac course you will need to get started with the software. This course if for geologists, mining engineers, geoscientists or anyone who wants to learn a new mining package.