Underground Mine Design using GEOVIA Surpac ®

Slice a stope into labeled elevations with the stop slicer, ensure labels only, validate the solid, and save pillar stops for underground level design.

Demonstrates using the stop slicer to define stope boundaries and pillars, set start and end planes, and visualize rib, crown, and shield pillars through vertical and horizontal slicing.

Explore stop slicing methods in Geovia Surpac, using a center line from a middle string, excluding solids, and the stop slicer for targeted tonnage on a DTM.

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.

Apply stop slicing to optimize stop design toward a targeted tonnage using a block model with density 1.2 and gold attributes. Generate the slicer report.

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.

Create centerline designs and triangulate underground drives by converting solids to string center lines and back, using horseshoe and 3x3 profiles for declines and cross cuts, with explicit object IDs.

Create a centerline between ore zones in underground mine design and extend it into crosscuts. Set midpoints, generate crosscut points by angle, and trim and save as ug design.

Learn how to create a centerline between ore zones in Surpac, using crosscuts, curves, bearings, and gradients to design an underground tunnel with 3D triangulation.

Design road outlines with fixed and variable widths using center line strings in GEOVIA Surpac, adjusting string numbers and saving variable-width road outlines.

Learn to create and validate solids from string profiles, triangulate using center lines and profiles for underground drives, and generate a volume report detailing crosscuts and total volume.

Select and save tunnel profiles from a PCL file, align the center line to zero using string maths, then triangulate an open decline with a DCL 100 center line.

Unify a decline and cross cuts into a single solid using union solids in GEOVIA Surpac, then generate one volume report and view merged triangulations with surface view options.

Explore union, intersect, and outer-section of solids in GEOVIA Surpac, and generate volume reports with totals: 40,871 cubic meters (union), 1,760 (intersect), and 19,234 cubic meters (outer-section).

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.

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.

Learn to create solid sections via interactive and range methods in Geovia Surpac, digitizing points and using 50-meter spacing to slice 10,000–11,000.

Model underground data by handling irregular floors and roofs with string numbers, saving back and floor layers, creating a dtm, then clip, triangulate, and validate the solid for its volume.

Set the ring x1 dtm, apply center-line sectioning to the tunnel solid, and generate 50 slices with a spacing of two and a 70 dip to create the ring design.

Learn how to set up a rig and design a ring blasting pattern for underground mining, including rig properties, section files, drilling parameters, and plotting reports.