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MINING SOF TWARE MineSight is Mintec's comprehensive modeling and mine planning software platform, offering integrated solutions for exploration, modeling, design, scheduling, and production. can assist in generating surfaces and solids in moments as opposed to hours. The module interactively creates grade shells from drillholes and sample information. Geologists can select data points directly from GEMS and immediately create implicitly modeled isosurfaces, and analyze several different models simultaneously based on different interpolation parameters. The company noted that although this method does not replace traditional solids and block modeling, it is a technique that can provide mining operations with a faster and more flexible analysis capability for an ore deposit. Other features offered by the new version include: • A new drillhole design tool that assists with designing and storing new drillholes for exploration or resource extension projects, allowing geologists to create and edit new planned drillholes graphically. • Solids validation and error correction that has undergone a dramatic change, and new solids repair functionality that reduces solids validation time from days to minutes. • A solids autocorrect feature that locates and fills invalid triangles, and removes and fills the resultant hole(s) with the ability to expand the selection to neighboring triangles to fix more complex error groups. • TIN conditioning, triangle thinning, selection and manual repair functions are also collated into the new tool for ease of use. said its new Block Agg translates geology into mining as soon as new information is uncovered, allowing sites to rapidly move from geological models to scheduling options and production forecasts; while Haulnet, part of RPM's TALPAC mining productivity simulator portfolio, is used to identify the most advantageous haulage routes. It enables users to visualize available haulage paths and choose the most cost-effective routes by interpreting road geometry from mine designs, then quickly filter thousands of data points into haul roads and profiles. The program's graphics features realistically simulate the productivity of haul truck routes at different phases of mine life, in 3-D. In combination with the features of the Advanced Destination Scheduler in XPAC, its mine scheduling software, RPM said Haulnet allows users to accurately report truck hours for every period by source, material and destination; analyze available haulage options each time a new destination is selected; ensure the schedule does not exceed the truck hours available for each period; and model haulage options in a rigorous, practical manner. RPM also announced that the latest release of TALPAC (10.2) has had its equipment database of trucks, loaders, scrapers and underground equipment updated to include the latest equipment introduced to the market at MINExpo 2012. The update includes Caterpillar's Unit Rig MT4400D AC and Cat 777G haul trucks, Komatsu's 750E (AC) truck and Hitachi's EH 5000AC-3 truck. The update also includes newly introduced or upgraded equipment from many other manufacturers including Liebherr, Bell, Volvo, BelAZ and P&H.; Alun Philips, RPM's product manager–simulation, said, "We're proud that with this new release, TALPAC has evolved to include a vast database of more than 500 trucks and 400 loaders, allowing virtually any truck and loader combination to be simulated and evaluated." Dedicated to Coal RPM introduced Underground Coal, a dedicated product for underground coal min- Rapid Data Translation RPM (RungePincockMinarco) showcased new and upgraded products at the 2013 SME Annual Meeting & Exhibit held in Denver, Colorado, USA, in February. RPM 60 E&MJ; • APRIL 2013 A new Dynamic Shells module in the latest version of GEOVIA's GEMS software allows geologists to model geologic data for visualization of grade data, enabling staff to save time when initially evaluating deposits. www.e-mj.com