Overview

Reconciliations need no longer be something you wish you had time to do, or that happens too late to be of benefit. Now you can reap the rewards of timely reconciliation. You will find the look and feel of mineRECON familiar, as it uses the intuitive, flow-sheet style user interface of mineCAD and Mine2-4D.
 
The system makes use of the same technology developed for the Leapfrog software, which facilitates the generation of closed solids from raw CMS data without the need for manual linking of “polylines” sections. This has the effect of dramatically reducing the time required to generate valid CMS solids.
 
Depending on your requirements, reconciliation reports can now also be automatically placed into Microsoft® Word or Excel.The mineRECON module is aimed at improving the reconciliation processes of underground mines by drastically reducing the time and manual nature of this difficult task.

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Traditionally, transforming CMS data into solids that can be analysed using reconciliation software, has been an extremely time-consuming task in which complete accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Once a void or cavity has been scanned using CMS range-finder technology, an engineer must then interpret each section of the scan and manually link the sections together to create the solid.

mineRECON eliminates the intermediate step of sectional modeling, and as a result reduces the workflow by several orders of magnitude. Users simply feed in the data and mineRECON performs the interpolation and subsequently generates the solid. A range of parameters are user-configurable, because with certain scans there is a need to change the way the interpolation is performed. Unclean CMS data (spikes and shadows) is not a problem for mineRECON as automated and manual cleaning tools are a standard featureset.

The solids modeling portion of the module has been developed as a joint software initiative between GijimaAst and Zaparo, and incorporates Zaparo's Leapfrog rapid interpolation technology. This technology forms the basis for the fast generation of validated CMS solids within the module, and is the driving force behind mineRECON's unique cavity modeling capabilities.

Once a valid CMS solid has been created (or supplied from other software), mineRECON has the ability to automatically generate over-break and under-break reports, taking into account the effect of surrounding voids and development.

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Benefits
  • When using traditional methods, there is a strong chance of data being lost during sectional interpretation. mineRECON safely retains all data for processing and therefore produces a more accurate final model.
  • The process of generating CMS solids is extremely time-consuming and can result in extremely large datasets. Using the Leapfrog modeling technology massive time savings may be realized along with extremely compressed clean information.
  • Over-break, under-break and other useful reports can be quickly extracted from the CMS, development As-builts and engineering design information - without the need for tedious, time-consuming Boolean operations.
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