Underground Mine Design using GEOVIA Surpac ®

Name: Underground Mine Design using GEOVIA Surpac ®
Rating: 4.8 (31 reviews)

Basic to Professional Level Course: Stope Design, Optimization, Solid Underground Mine Modeling, Ring Design and more

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Created byEng. Tamrat Mekonnen

Last updated 7/2025

English

What you'll learn

Introduction to Underground Mining and Undeground Mine Planning and Design.
How to design a stope, Make stope slicing and Stope Optimization for tonnage and grade of the mineral.
Learn about Undeground Mine Profile designing, Creating a Centerline and Undeground Mine Model.
Road Design from a given Centerline.
Making Solids in Underground Mine Model.
Ring Design in Underground Mine Blasting.
Become a Competent and Professional Underground Mine Planning and Design Engineer.

Course content

5 sections • 28 lectures • 6h 3m total length

GEOVIA Surpac Overview4:55
Introduction to Underground Mine Design & Stope Design16:03
Stope Design44:08
Sample: Underground Mining at Vale3:26
Explore underground mining design principles, from headframes and ramps to drilling, blasting, and ore handling, emphasizing safety, ventilation, and sustainable, technology-driven operations.
Cut and Fill Mining at Minnesota2:58
Underground Mining with Animation6:35
General Considerations in Underground Mine Planning43:25
Software Installation11:00
Master the GEOVIA Surpac installation by extracting the setup with WinRAR, disabling internet and antivirus protections, running the server 2021 installer, and validating Java licensing.

Stope Slicing By Underground Levels6:07
Slice a stope into labeled elevations with the stop slicer, ensure labels only, validate the solid, and save pillar stops for underground level design.
Stope Slicing to Determine Sill and Rib Pillars6:48
Stope Slicing Using Centerline3:35
Stope Slicing with an Exclusion Underground Drives15:30
Explore stope slicing with exclusions in underground mine design, selecting exclusion solids and applying plane-based slicing to create plan-view and vertical-section stop pillars and crown pillars, with volumetric reports.
Stope Optimization Design13:50

Tunnel and Shaft Profile Design16:51
Design tunnel and shaft profiles in Geovia Surpac by creating dedicated layers, configuring a custom grid, drawing a six-by-six tunnel face and a six-meter-radius shaft, and saving the layers.
Creating Centerline & Trinagulating An Underground Drive8:30
Creating Centerline Between Orezones: Part One20:48
Creating Centerline Between Orezones: Part Two30:37
Road Design Using Fixed and Variable Width9:02
Volume Calculation for Underground Drives8:23

Adjusting Profile Location to Create Solids10:25
Unifying two Solids5:21
Union, Intersect and Outersect Solids7:07
Slicing by Centerline3:25
Activate the center line and use section using center line to define 33 slices with end depths (first 90, last 70) perpendicular to the level. Save as ring slices.
Slicing by Quickplane6:13
Learn to create slices in GEOVIA Surpac using quick planes and plane group, save sections as string files with 4680 nodes, and visualize the results with scale and transparency controls.
Interactive and Range Method of Slicing a Solid10:56
Modeling Underground Data11:44

Requirements

No requirements. Only Interest to be a Mine Designer.
No experience needed. You will learn from Basic-to-Advace.

Description

•Underground Mine Design using Geovia Surpac’s is an advanced professional training program designed for mining engineers and geologists. It focuses on transforming geological data into safe, efficient, and executable underground mine layouts using industry-standard 3D modeling GEOVIA Surpac Software.

is a rare and expensive skill (The Course Costs around $5,000) for a Mining Engineers and Geologists which lets Engineers land in hundred’s of thousands ( Annual Salary Estimate $120k - $220k USD) salary job positions. This is the best Underground Mine Design Course for any Mining Industry professionals offered with the industry-leading software in Underground mine planning and design.

•By the end of the course, you will be able to design an Underground Mine using Geovia Surpac software such as creating Stope design & Optimization, Underground tunnel profiles and geometries, Underground mine model, Solid skills in Underground Mine and Underground Ring Blasting Pattern Designs.

The course is structured into five sections for

•Introduction to Underground Mine planning and Design: Learn the principle of underground mine planning and Underground concepts for making underground mine plans.

•Stope Design, Slicing and Optimization: Learn the of Stope Design beginning from block model to digitization, slice the Stope using different tools and optimize by tonnage and grade.

•Underground Mine Tunnel Profile Design: Creating Tunnel Profile for Shafts and Declines, Creating Centerline Between Ore zones, Road Design and Volume Calculations.

•Solid in Underground Mine Design: Adjusting profile location of a horse shoe tunnel, unifying, intersecting and outersecting a solid, Slicing solids and Modeling underground data.

•Ring Design in Underground Mine: Ring Design of two adjacent tunnels in a Stope, Slicing ring pattern to prepare for slicing, Ring Design for Underground Stope Blasting.

Who this course is for:

For Underground Mining Engineers, Mine Managers, Geologists, Engineering Geologists and Mine Surveyors.
For Mining Geologists, Mine Planners, Mineral Industry Enthusiasts.
For Mining Engineers, Geologists, Economic Geologists, Exploration Geologists and to all interested in Mine Design.

Underground Mine Design using GEOVIA Surpac ®

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Course content

Introduction to Underground Mine & Stope Design Principles8 lectures • 2hr 13min

Stope Design, Stope Slicing and Stope Optimization5 lectures • 46min

Underground Mine Tunnel Profile Design, Creating Centerlines & Triangulations6 lectures • 1hr 34min

Solid in Underground Mine Design7 lectures • 55min

Ring Design in Underground Mining2 lectures • 36min

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