Adding Roads and Benches

To A Pit Design
2007 Dr. B. C. Paul
{Note The Name MineSight and the Program described are property of
Mintec Inc Tucson, Arizona}
 What We Have to Start With

I have my stage 1 pit surface in my pit optimization file.

I Also Have Topographic Contours of My
Pit (Without adjustments for roads or benches)
I Zoom in a Query My Pit Bottom Contour
to Get Its Elevation
 Pits With Toes, Crests, Berms and Roads
are Designed with the Pit Expansion Tool
Go to Tool and
Drop down the
Menu

Highlight and Click

Pit Expansion Tool
The Routine Will Help You Set Up A New
Geometry Object

Pick your File

Title

And hit open

 You Need a Line For the Bottom of Your
Pit
Pick Digitize

Click Your Bottom

Contour

Confirm it is the right line

Hit Add
 Now Drop to the Lower Box and Set Your
Pit Expansion Parameters

Specify the start

Elevation to match the
Bottom of the pit

You can tell it to do

A bunch of steps at
Once (I counted
Contours to know I
Wanted 19 benches)
Next Step Will Be to Set Benching
Parameters

Pit Slope
Berm Width

Step Size
Face
Starting Slope
Elevation
 Next I Click On the Required Tab to Tell it
How to Bench Up
You can choose
Which parameters to
Specify
2330 starting elev
I specified my 15 meter
bench,
A 72 degree slope
From the toe to crest
And a 42 degree
Over-all working slope

(I could have specified

Bench width and let
It figure the pit slope)

Indicate I want the pit to expand upward and outward.

Next I Open the Roads Tab
 I Go to the Naming Field to Name My
Road

It tells me my road
Is unset
(surprise-surprise
I havent set it yet
So click Edit)
 It Needs Me to Tell it Where to Start the
Road
Click on the point
Symbol and then
Point to the spot
To begin.
 Enter the Road Parameters

Give it the starting

Level

The road width

The Grade (0.1 means

10%)

And the direction

Code 1= clockwise
The View Clicks Back to the Road Tab
Only Now the Road is Set
Go Back to the Expansion Screen and Hit
Preview
Oh Wow Cool!
Back Out and I Can See My Road and
the Toes and Crests

I can also see my road width pushed my pit back a little more and cut the
Over-all slope.
It Does However End at the Right Level
I Have An Option to Fix That Road Issue

Ill tell it to dock the road with off of the bench width
Click Apply to Add that Steepening Effect
We Can See We Have Taken a Nice
Chunk Out of Our Benches with the Road
After Clicking Apply It Asks Us to Name
Our Geometry Object
It Also Gives Me A Chance to Name And
Save My Instruction Set
I Can Now Click Triangulate to Have it
Create a Pit Surface From My Toes and
Crests and Road
There is My Triangulated Pit With A Lot of
Stuff On at the Same Time
Here is One Item My Toes and Crest
Profile
Here is My Triangulated Surface
 I Highlighted Right Clicked and Picked
Properties

Then I used
Global Color to
Change My Surface
Color

A Picked Faces Only

To get the faces
Without the
Triangulation showing
If I Turn On My Pit2 Surface I Can See
My Benches Surface is Mostly A Little
Below the Lerch Grossman Surface
 I Can Adjust the Lerch Grossman Surface
to be a Little See Through

On Object Properties Click the Surfaces Tab and Use the Arrow to increase the
Transparency of the surface
Now I Can See My Design Pit Surface if
Very Close to the Lerch Grossman
Surface
I Can Also See that the Expansion
Sometimes Goes Higher Than the
Surrounding Surface

And sometimes
A little lower.
Now I Do Have Some Issues
This thing made every bench a common
width
I will have some working benches wider
but I will not provide a working area on
every bench
Remember I have an option to expand the
pit up one bench at a time
This will allow me to deal with working and non-
working benches and to fine tune my road.