maptek australia2012 steve sullivan future vulcan

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As with any Olympic athlete always trying to improve, we are doing the same with

our products.

Vulcan has a history dating back 30 years and we are committed to continually

evolving the product to meet the needs of the ever changing mining industry.

The latest release of Vulcan 8.1.4 is a hop towards providing Vulcan software that

will continue to perform.

As we step into the future, the release of Vulcan 8.2 will bring developments set to

make a difference.

And you will jump with me into the exciting progress we are making for Vulcan

development in the coming years.

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64bitprovidesuserswiththeabilitytoaccessmore than4GBofphysicalmemory.

Users

can

manage

large

data

sets

with

ease

Takeadvantageofthepoweryourcomputerhastooffer.

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Other enhancementsincludedintheVulcan8.1.4releaseinclude,anupgradetothe

installerprocesstotheindustrystandard,InstallShield,platform.Thismeansyouwillbe

notified

of

updates

when

they

are

available

for

immediate

download.

WehavealsomodernisedthefilebasedstoragesolutioninVulcanthroughaISIS

Refractor.

Youwillnowbeabletoshareinformationquickerandeasierthroughtheintroductionof

3DPDFexportcapabilities.

Longawaitedupdatesandfixestothealgorithmshastakenplacewithapartialupgrade

totheBoolean.

Afix

to

licensing

provides

organisations

with

amore

stable

licensing

solution.

AndwearemovingtowardsdistributingVulcansoftwareviaawebdownload.

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Enhancingthepalettetoprovide256indexedcoloursselectedfromrgbg

combinationofmorethan16millioncolours.Userswillseeanewcolour

selectionand

editing

interface

with

more

predefined

automatic

colour

gradients.

Byaddingextrafieldstothedgd databasestructuretoallowstoringtheextra

colourinformationmeansthatVulcanversion8.2andolderwillbeableto

correctlyinterpretthenewcolourcapabilities.Newdesigndatabaseswillbe

automaticallycreatedintheextendedformatANDwillworkin32colourmode

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InVulcan8.2Maptek introducestwonewmodellingmethodsforgrade

estimationinfoldeddeposits.

1.LocallyVaryingAnisotropy:moreflexibleforperforminggradeestimationin

foldedenvironments.

Howdoesitwork?Asetofanisotropyvectorsisusedtodeterminetheunfolded

samplestoblockandsamplestosamplesdistancesingradeestimationand

variography andtheactualprocessofbuildingtheanisotropyvectors.The

anisotropyvectorscanbeusedtodefinealocalsearchorformorecomplexnon

lineardistancecalculations.Beingabletousealternativecoordinatevariables

expandsthecapabilitiestodealwithtransformedcoordinatesystems.

2.LocallyVaryingSearchEllipse: TheLocallyVaryingSearchEllipsetechnique

allowstheusertodefineuniquesearchellipseparameters(bearing,plunge,dip

&searchradii)foreachblockwithinablockmodel,thusallowingthesearch

ellipseorientationanddimensionstobealignedwithaparticularstratigraphy or

varyingdirectionofcontinuity.

Howtouseit?Createasurfacetriangulationlocatedatthemidpointoftwo

triangulationsandusetheSlopeoptionwithintheGeotech moduleto

calculatethe

dip

and

dip

direction

of

each

facet,

which

is

written

to

a

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geotechnicaldatabase.Interpolatethesevaluesintotheblockmodelblocks

withinthetargetdomainusingthenearestneighbourinterpolator. Nextstepis

gradeinterpolationcontinuedasnormalapartfromtheuseofthebearingand

plungevaluesstoredintheblockmodel.Initially,itmaynotbeobviousfrom

blockmodel

cross

sections

that

the

interpolation

had

used

the

block

model

variablesbutusingthegradeshelloptiontoassessthebiggerpictureconfirmsit

works.

Notethattetramodellingwillbephasedoutinv8.2.Bendandprojectoptions

remainaspartoftheunfoldingmodule.

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SimplifiesCSVdataimportbyallowingbringingCSVdatainwithouttheneedfor

theusertodesignthedatabasebeforehand.

Thetoolwillreadinformationinsavedspecificationfiles,takingcolumnsfrom

CSVorExcelfiles,andsavespecsintoanewfileforstoringnewconfigurations.

YoucanalsoloadanexistingdesignANDchangethefieldsortablesontheflyto

createanewdatabase.

Userswillbeabletoassigndrillhole synonymsduringimport.

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InVulcan8.2we'llbeintroducinganewmodellingmethodforgradeestimation

infoldeddeposits.thereweresomelimitationswithtetramodelling,includinga

riskthat

results

were

not

validated.

LocallyVaryingAnisotropyismoreflexibleandfasterforperforminggrade

estimationinfoldedenvironments.

Howdoesitwork?Asetofanisotropyvectorsisusedtodeterminetheunfolded

samplestoblockandsamplestosamplesdistancesingradeestimationand

variography andtheactualprocessofbuildingtheanisotropyvectors.The

anisotropyvectorscanbeusedtodefinealocalsearchorformorecomplexnon

lineardistancecalculations.Beingabletousealternativecoordinatevariables

expandsthe

capabilities

to

deal

with

transformed

coordinate

systems.

Tetramodelling methodologyisbeinglicencedout.Bendandprojectoptions

remainaspartoftheunfoldingmodule.

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Vulcan8.2willalsoinclude arangeofotherimprovementsincluding:

Advances

to

the

installer

to

include

support

for

patching.

This

will

ensure

we

can

keep

youuptodatewiththelatestbugfixes/improvements

TheoptiontodownloadVulcansoftwarefromtheinternetwillbecompletedenabling

flexibilityandgreateraccessforcustomers.

Ourcoredevelopmentplatform,VisualStudio2010,willreceivesomeattention.This

willresultinanoverallimprovementforusers.

UpdatesforDWG,ESRIandseveraldevelopmentlibrarieswillbeincludedinthe8.2

releaseenablinggreaterflexibilityforusers.

Longawaitedupdatesandfixestothealgorithmshastakenplacewithapartialupgrade

totheBoolean.

Afixtolicensingprovidesorganisationswithamorestablelicensingsolution.

AndwearemovingtowardsdistributingVulcansoftwareviaawebdownload.

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EchoMine,neartheSolidEnergy,IslandBlockdepositcourtesyHamishPescini,

SolidEnergy.

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PrototypemodellingofpartoftheBrokenHillorebody in2006.

Boundary

modelling

is

a

crucial

part

of

natural

resource

characterization.

Geostatistical estimationandsimulationemploystationaryrandomfunction

modelswithinvolumetric

boundariestopredictregionalizedpetrophysical propertiesofinterest.

Moreover,thereisoften significantglobaluncertaintyinvolumetricboundaries

dependingontheamountofsampleand

geologicaldataavailable.Thereisagrowingneedforfast,objective,flexible,and

geologically realisticboundarymodelsaccountingforglobaluncertainty.Maptek

isworkinginconjunctionwiththeUniversityofAlbertaonanovelboundary

modellingalgorithmwiththesefeatures.Explicitormanuallydigitized volumetric

boundariesare

common,

but

do

not

capture

volumetric

uncertainty

since

these methodsaretimeconsuming,subjective,andnonrepeatable.BOUNDSIM

isanimplicit boundarymodellingmethodologythatautomatestheconstruction

offast,objective,andflexible

probabilisticboundarysurfacesbuiltatanydesiredpositionofriskand

resolution.

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ProposeddevelopmentstoHaulageProfilemodule

1.Use

rimpull curves.

The

most

important

part

here

is

the

incorporation

of

RollingResistanceparameterforeachhaulsegment.Timeestimatedisbasedon

theeffectofthegradientplustherollingresistance.

2.Incorporatethealgorithmfor"C"bench,thatallowtodoabetterestimation

fordistancesbasedonactualbenchgeometryatthetimeofminehaulage.

3.Incorporatethepossibilitytoincludedistributionstothetimecalculationsi.e

probabilitiesbasedonmeasureddatafromtruckmonitoringsystems.

4.Allowtotheusertocreatenodesandsegmentseasilywherecommon

betweenmultipleroutes.

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Delivercustomersanintegrated,scalable,versionedsinglerepresentationofthe

truthacrossallMaptekproducts

Leveragestandard

commercially

available

platforms

to

reduce

development

and

maintenanceoverhead

Facilitatereporting,plottingandwebservices

UnifyMaptekdevelopmenteffortswhileacceleratingtimetomarket

Deliveruniformdataorganization,transparency,andinterchange

Manageversioncontrol,publicationofvalidateddataandaudittrails

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Notethe3lamps comparetothemultiplicityofVisibilityiconsinVulcan

NotealsotheBenchdrill(latestversionofopencutdrillandblasttools)andthe

existence

of

other

older

drilling

tools

as

well.

Cleanuptheclutter

Modernisethelookandfeel

Advance theuserexperience

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Providesacommon, Maptekwide,licensingsolutionforallproducts.

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Inaddition tothesemanyimprovementsareplannedforfutureVulcanarchitecture

including

MultilanguagesupportwithinVulcan

Replacingourgraphicsdrivertoacommerciallysupportedplatform.Thiswillallow

quickerproductdevelopmentandimprovementsdeliveredtotheenduserquicker.

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AsImentioned,all productsatMaptek aredevelopedincollaborationwithourusers.At

theconferencethisweekwehavepeoplefromtheVulcanteamthatwanttohearyour

suggestions,

grievances

and

hopefully,

positive

comments!

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