The ASIA Miner - Reporting Important Issues to Mining Companies in the Asia Pacific Region
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Volume 14 • Issue 2 | 2017 | ASIA Miner | 47 MICROMINE has implemented its fleet man- agement and mine control solution, Pitram, at the Oyu Tolgoi Copper-Gold Project in the South Gobi region of Mongolia. Owned by Turquoise Hill, Rio Tinto and the Government of Mongolia, Oyu Tolgoi re-commenced its underground development in 2016 and is expected to move into production in 2020. The implementation of Pitram includes standard voice deployment to equipment, configured to collect data relating to un- derground development activities with the focus being on high quality collection of metrics such as equipment utilisation and personnel performance. Additional mod- ules purchased included the controlled areas management module and the OLAP cube module. MICROMINE chief operations officer Michael Layng said, "The controlled areas module will provide monitoring capability to dan- gerous or hazardous areas. Supervisors will be alerted when the maximum duration or number of personnel is exceeded within these areas. This will contribute to ensuring a safe work- ing environment for Oyu Tolgoi staff." He adds, "OLAP cube performs a multi-di- mensional analysis of operational mining data and provides valuable input for man- agement or supervisors to make decisions." Initial on site deployment of Pitram was conducted by MICROMINE staff at the end of September. During this visit, the system was commissioned on production servers and numerous training courses were run to meet specific user's requirements. Addi- tional site visits are planned for early 2017 where MICROMINE staff will provide small software updates related to the manage- ment of reference data and operator qual- ifications. Michael Layng has already begun to re- ceive positive feedback from Oyu Tolgoi staff. "At this stage, all feedback has been positive. Staff members were pleased with the level of training we provided and com- plemented our dedication and flexibility in regards to the implementation process." Pitram is an essential and proven system for the management, control and process improvement of mining operations. It is used to record data related to equipment, personnel, locations and materials, provid- ing an overall view of mine status, thereby increasing control and efficiency. Pitram's analytical tools help mine control- lers and engineers identify operational con- straints, improve the utilisation of resources and increase production. Pitram makes development and produc- tion more efficient and safe by providing miners with real time information on equip- ment, ore and personnel thereby facilitating faster and smarter decision-making. MICROMINE maintains its reputation by regularly releasing new soft- ware versions that build upon the strengths of its solutions, which ensures its solutions continue to meet evolving user needs and in- dustry conditions. MICROMINE has released the latest version of its exploration and 3D mine design solution, Micromine 2016. Micromine 2016.1 is minor update to the Micromine family, with a major focus on usability and workflow in large and complex multi-user projects. The solution allows users to capture, manage and interpret critical data, and is relevant to all stages of the mineral extraction process. Micromine provides explorers with an in-depth understanding of their project so prospective regions can be targeted more effective- ly, increasing the chance of a project's success. Miners are provid- ed easy-to-use modelling, estimation and design tools to simplify day-to-day production tasks. Some of the new and enhanced features within Micromine 2016 include: • New support for texture-mapped triangulated 3D models, in- cluding Adam Technology RAW, Stanford PLY, Wavefront OBJ, and Autodesk FBX; • New Drillhole Imaging Vizex layer to display cylindrically-wrapped, depth-referenced drillhole imagery such as Televiewer data; • New support for variable search orientations (dynamic anisotro- py) in kriging; • New secondary clipping window (shadow slicing), with sepa- rate colour options for objects in front of or behind the current section plane; • New Additional Grids feature to add transformed mine grids to Vizex and the Plot Editor, with built-in expression support for ad- vanced labelling; • New text search on Display Pane Layers; • New Collapse All option for groups in the Display Pane; • New Highlight Layer in the Vizex context menu (Selection | High- light Layer) to select the layer and make it visible in the Display pane; • New Invert Selection in the Wireframe and Form set Managers; • New expressions support for creating wireframe sets; • New Wireframe | Manage | Attributes for creating and managing user attributes, with mixed-case names; • New Display Selected option in the Wireframe Manager displays multiple selected wireframes in one operation; • New macro support for Drillhole Log; • New Create Wireframe Set option in the Wireframe Manager creates a wireframe set directly from selected wireframes; • New ability to edit colours from the Properties window for layers using RGB colour fields; and • New option in Mining | Underground | Interactive Generate Pro- file Shape to add a profile perpendicular to the selected string. Micromine saves time and increases productivity. It is renowned for its intuitive and user-friendly interface, easily enabling advanced tasks, such as pit optimisation, mine design and complex plot lay- outs to be executed in minutes. Update released for Micromine 2016 The Pitram fleet management and mine control solution has been implemented by MICROMINE at the Oyu Tolgoi project in Mongolia. MICROMINE implements Pitram at Oyu Tolgoi