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slopes in a stable way, handle water
and sediment naturally, and produce a
self-maintaining, natural-looking result.
New features include the ability to visualize vegetation growth in 3-D at various stages throughout reclamation.
Mintec Adds New Plug-ins
Mintec took the opportunity afforded by
MINExpo to launch MineSight 7.5
which, it said, provides better visualization and compatibility between products.
Version 7.5 includes improved versions
of MineSight 3-D, Schedule Optimizer,
Torque, Basis and Data Analyst.
The Tucson, Arizona, USA-based
company followed this in December
with the 2013 update to MineSight,
version 7.6, which features new plugins such as a surface resloping tool for
MineSight 3-D's engineering open-pit
CAD. This allows engineers to reduce a
shape, such as a waste dump, to a
desired final slope while balancing cut
and fill requirements. MS3D also
includes plug-ins for auto cut generation, used to create cuts starting from
polygons, polylines or solids, and
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Mintec's new activity and resource-based scheduler, MineSight Atlas, is one of several products scheduled for
release in 2013.
Digline Generator, used to assign a mining sequence for cuts on every individual bench of each phase.
Mintec reports it also has four new
products scheduled for release early
this year.
MineSight Implicit Modeler is a
mathematical tool for geologists to take
drillhole, polygon, point and fault-plane
data, and then interpret new geological
scenarios. MineSight Performance
Manager is used to assess and report on
mining performance in near real time,
as well as providing analytical tools that
can answer why something has happened. MineSight Atlas is a complete
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