Hi mr komsom, my name is Enrike Zamora, we have been talking by wspp the last week, and

today im gonna teach you, the functionality of minero suite software and the tools its uses for
the mine planning optimization process. First, minero is a software used for the long- and short-
term open pit mine planning and design process. Minero has 6 modules that are used for it. For
instance, we have the block model creator, the plan optimizer, the smart pit designer, eh surface
creator and the ore identifier and haul road profiler applications. Each of them has different
tools that allow the engineers to make quick estimations in an efficient way. Well let’s talk about
them, for example, the block model creator tools are used for creating, editing or modifying
different items of the block model that are necessary for the planning process, here you can
create different variables just running scripts. For example, if u are working with a block model
that has more than one element, lets say gold, copper and silver, you can create a variable of
copper equivalent grade and set a script to find the value of that variable that will be used in the
next step, that is the plan optimizer, which allows the engineers to find the optimal value of the
mine, using the lerch and grossman algorithm to calculate the final pit, in other words, the shell
with the highest profit, and we can do this, just setting different modifying factors like the price
of the principal metal, the different type of costs like mining, processing, selling costs. After that
we can use the smart pit designer tool to get pits, dumps and stockpiles designs, to convert the
theorical mine in an operational one. Here we can use the report tool to compare the ore and
waste tonnages from the lerch and grossman pit and the designed pit. Minero also has the ore
identifier and the haul road profiler as the applications for the short-term planning tasks. For
example, here we can do ore control, create drilling and blasting patterns, and to analyse or
calculate the quantity of trucks the mine plan will required just drawing and setting a
determined route from one level of the pit to the waste dump or the crusher.

Well, today we are going to know a little more about minero interface, the file, view and model
creator menues and the different tools of them. Let’s start. First, let’s go to the file application,
here we can create, save or open projects, we can also import or export objects from or to
autocad or csv of excel, and finally, we can visualize the last projects we have been working in
the last period. To start the training, lets open the block model creator file, just click in open
project. After that, we are going to see that this projects hast two main objects. These are the
block model called LTP model mclauglin and the topography as a group of polygons. Its
important to say that minero works in a plan view, and with the concept of mid benches, in other
words, minero does not work with toes and crest, its just works with the line that is created
between them, so every object that we visualize inside the project is created in that format.

In the left part of the screen, you can appreciate the object, the view and the render properties
windows. In the first one, we can visualize four folders called patterns, block, polygons and
triangles. Each of them can save a specific type of object. In the second window called views, we
can modify the perspective of the object, in other words, we can change the visualization of the
project. For example, right now, we are working in a plan view or with no rotation angles (a
setting of 0, 0, 0 angles in each coordinate X, Y and Z). But if we want to change that perspective
from plan to a specific section, we need only to change those angles to the number we want. In
this case, we will set a -90, -90 and 0 rotation angles. In the last window, called render properties,
we can change the specific properties of every object. For example, in the case of the block
model, we can set a preferred colour, the shape or size of the block, just for visualization, the
pattern if you want the fill or not the block, and the annotation, if you want to display a specific
label or variable of the object. The thickness is used for displaying the full model or just visualize
a specific elevation.
In the right part of the screen, you can visualize the specifications of the object u are selecting.
For example, in this case we are clicking on the ltp block model from mclauglin. So, we are going
to see the information of that object, like its origin, the rotation angle, the block size and the
number of blocks. In the lowest part of the table window we can see the different numerical and
categorical variables or items of the block model. For instance, in the numerical values we have
the au or gold grade expressed on grams/ton, the specific gravity or the density of the block
expressed on tons/cu.m and some others. We can also create more variables if we are required.
For example, if we want to make a mathematical operation for calculating the block value if the
block is considered ore, we just only must press this plus button and the variable is created
automatically, after that we can change the name of that variables. The categorical variables are
created to give a specific name or classification for the block. For example, if we have different
type of mineralisation’s like oxides and sulfuric rocks. We can also see the content of the block
model, just clicking here. In this table we will visualize the full values of each block from every
specific variable. In the upper part we can see a brief of each column, for example, in the column
called AU or gold grade we are going to visualize the range of values of that variable. In this case,
we can see that the minimum numerical value is 0 and the maximum is about 2 grams/ton.

Well we have seen the file application and the interface of minero suite. So, we can start with t
he first module of minero called Block model creator application. But before that I am going to
show you, how you can modify the project setting in minero. We only need to press the view
application, and the most important tools in this section are this one and the last one called “go
to the location”. The first one allows the engineers to change the cursor size, and this is
important, if you want to measure the minimum mining width between two pushbacks or if you
want to draw a specific polygon or circle. Then you can change the background colour of the
minero interface just to visualize the colours in a better way. Here, you can also set the slope
angle projection for the smart pit design tool, just changing the bfa an ira slopes. Finally, in the
go to the location tool the user can writhe the elevation he wants to go.

Now, go to the Block model creator application and let’s see the five tools it has. First, we must
click the block model of the object view, and then we can use all of the tools inside the bmc
application. The first one is the reblock tool, and it allows the modification of the block size and
the number of blocks the model will have. For example, in this case we have 140 in x, 296 in y
and 68 in z, and the block size is 25 25 and 20 in each coordinate. We are going to create a
reblocked model changing the size by its double, from 25 to 50, and reducing the number of
blocks by its half in each coordinate too, from 140 to 70 and 296 to 148. After that, minero
creates a new object called Reblock, and if we press double click, we can change its name.
Clicking the new object, we can see the new information in the right part of the screen or the
table window, where we can see the new dimension of the blocks inside the block model. We
can also change the size of the block in the render properties, just for visualizing the new scale
of each block.

The next tool is the one called Compute variable, and this allows the user to make mathematical
operations with the variables of the block model. As I mentioned before, the process u to create
a new variable like the oreblockvalue, equivalent or nsr grade for polymetallic mines. In this
case, im going to create a new numerical variable for the ore block value.

We can also create a categorical variable assigning a range of numerical values for each one
using the compute route. For example, if the engineer wants to set a range of cut offs or bins
for the gold grade. First of all, we assign a name for the route or the categorical value that we
will create. The contour block allows the user to create polygons from the block model, it’s a
kind of visualization from a specific variable of the block model. To do this, we need to go to that
tool, select the block model and the polygon, in this case, the polygon will be the topography.
Then we create the numerical variable called ratio, that is the portion of the block that is below
the topography, the blocks above the topography get a cero value and are considered air blocks.

PLAN OPTIMIZER

The plan optimizer application allows the user to calculate the highest value of the mine using
one of the most known algorithms in the market called lerch and grossman. This methodogy
finds the pit shell with the highest profit considering the modifying factors that are necessary to
transform the mineral resources into ore reserves. This application has 3 steps or tools to
calculate the solution. It has the compute value, optimal pit and schedule block tools. Compute
value is used for setting the modifying factors like price, costs, metallurgical recovery, and other
necessary factors. The results are the numerical variable called value that is the value of the
block expressed in $/ton and the categorical variable called classification according the
configuration the user has done. Another way to calculate the block value is running a script
using the compute variable in the block model creator application, creating a quantity of
numerical and categorical variables and finding the block value which is calculated using
revenues and costs and its based on the destination of the block.