Case Study
Stope Optimisation For Underground Gold Deposit
www.maptek.com CASE STUDY Maptek faced the challenge of providing a solution to help obtain an optimised definition of what was mineable and what was not worth mining, based on user inputs. This led to a solution using Maptek Vulcan™ that flags mineable blocks in the final block model. Two alternatives for variable types are: • a mass variable, such as metal content or economic value, OR • a grade type such as gold grams per ton or zin