Summary of Resgraphics

(as part of Creating Intermediate Shells of Wara-1)

Background:
Intermediate shells created to make assumptions for SR calculation. In this
case, intermediate shells created at every certain level, for example: per
48m. Resgraphics needed for obtaining high wall of intermediate shell and
choosing SR-based mineable coal. And as low wall of intermediate shell,
coals floor chosen.
How to:
1. Solid created and covers all shells (RLM300) with block/strip dimension
125/25m (for accuracy). Endwall extended to certain distance (5 km)
to assure that it will include all highwalls.
2. Resgraphics:
a. Solid reserved and reserve data reformatted by using: reservereformat samples-interval.
b. Reserve & reformat data exported to Excel
c. Excel data modified by:
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calculating cummulative coal, ob, and SR per block

SR value coded into certain color

the data filtered by choosing mineable coal only

(SR<limit value)

the mineable coal data imported to Minescape

d. The imported data processed by using resgraphics

3. After resgraphics finished, highwall created by drawing line following
resgraphics (this line 20o projected).
In-detail How to:
SOLID
Resgraphics uses Excel data which is obtained from reserve data of a solid.
And now, lets create solid of pit Wara-1 RLM96. Urgently remembered,
creating solid in blocks.dgn design file is a must.

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1. Draw a polygon as limit of solid. This polygon (inner polygon) must be
larger than the pit itself. Then draw four lines around the inside
polygon which form another polygon (outter polygon) at once.

Inner
Polygon

Start Strip

Outter
Polygon
Start Block
End Block

End Strip

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2. Create lines of blocks by using strip design-generate strips menu.

Create in a new layer and name it as wr1_b. In main tab, fill Input with
start block, end block and inner polygon. See picture 2. Fill output by
filling layer name and clicking polygon as output element type. Fill
controls as shown by picture 3. Strip mode set LEAVE means the end of
the strip cannot be adjusted. Average means space between blocks or
block width. Prefix means blocks named with certain prefix. Counter
shows blocks number, and increment used for applying increase on
counter. So, blocks name is B01, B02, B03, etc.

Click this icon

and click start
block

Click this icon

and click end
block

Click this icon

and click inner
polygon

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In side definition tab, fill side definitions as shown by picture below.

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3. Create lines of strips by using strip design-generate strips menu. Create
in a new layer and name it as wr1_s. In main tab, fill Input with start
strip, end strip and inner polygon. See picture 2. Fill output by filling
layer name and clicking polygon as output element type. Fill controls as
shown by picture 3. Strip mode set LEAVE means the end of the strip
cannot be adjusted. Average means space between strips or strip
width. Prefix means strips named with certain prefix. Counter shows
strips number, and increment used for applying increase on counter.

Click this icon

and click start
block

Click this icon

and click end
block

Click this icon

and click inner
polygon

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In side definition tab, fill side definitions as shown by picture below.

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4. Now, its the time to do strip intersection. This means lines of blocks
intersected with lines of strips. Primary blocks filled with list of blocks
and secondary blocks filled with list of strips. As the output, put the
intersected block and list at a new layer, wr1_bs. For name
construction, filled as shown by picture 7. So, batter blocks name is
BB_B10S10, BB_B10S11, etc.

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Note: Occasionally, several problems found at block, strip, or
intersected block & strip created which require repetition. Before
another block, strip, or intersected block & strip created for the
second (or more) time, delete all previous file via Minescape Explorer.

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5. After all those steps, lets project the solid. In IO tab, let the schema
and model type empty. List file created and filled with strip
intersection file (wr1_bs). As the output, design file set as blocks, a
new layer wr1_solid as a layer where solid exist, and pit projection
rules created by right click and create, type its name and click Project
Up. Pit projection rules position the bottom of solid and projection
direction. Bottom set to RLM 300 and project up to P144.

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Heres the result.

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Note:
Before projecting the solid, check the result of strip intersection
(wr1_bs). Its better and suggested to delete incomplete blocks/strips.
But assure that strip intersection covering the pit.
6. Reserve solid: Reserve Sample Solids.
In setup tab, fill schema with wara1_08test, model type with GRID, and
quality model with wara1_qual.

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Surface sets:
Subset

P048 M300

Upper Surface

topo_tbg281031

Lower Surface

wr1_P048 wr1_M300

Selection Expression

topo > wr1_P048

topo > wr1_P000
etc.

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7. Reserve data reformatted to Excel data.
Note:
Process of solid reserve in Minescape takes a very long time (several days).
So while were waiting for it, lets create low wall for pit Wara-1 (each
elevation. Actually, low wall creation is initiated by creating x-section to
observe the basic coal on elevation M96. Then it followed by creating

contour. These two processes will not be explained particularly here. But it
concluded that:
Basic coal on block 3350 6750 W100
Basic coal on block 6750 8500 W110
Basic coal on block 8500 10750 W100
a. Duplicate floor from contour for each elevation (P048, P000, M048,
M096, M144, M192, M240, & M300)
b. Create shells by generating duplicated floors exceed topo.

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c. Delete the two end walls and high wall but keep their lowest elevation
and low wall.

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EXCEL DATA MODIFICATION
1. Classify all excel data based on intermediate shells (P048, P000, M048,
M096, M144, M192, M240, & M300)

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2. Complete basic coal based on interval

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3. Calculate coal and overburden:
a. Insert three columns and name them intimas, intrrmass, and
intlossvol.
intimass

if intvolume = 0 then 0
if intvolume 0 then (intvolume * rd_ar)

intrrmass

if intimass = 0 then 0
if intimass 0 then (intimass * 0.94)

intlossvol

if intimass = 0 then 0
if intimass 0 then [(intimass intrrmass) / rd_ar]

Coal sum represented by intrrmass.

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b. Insert a new column and name it OB.
OB

= intlossvol

OVERVOLUME

INTERVOLUME

PARTVOLUME + UNDERVOLUME + UNASSVOLUME

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4. Create a pivot table for resgraphics.

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a. Drag NAME to row fields.

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b. Drag intrrmass & overburden to column fields. Set these two
fields into sum.

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c. On the dialog box Pivot Table, click Format Report and choose
one of format.

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d. Select all, copy, paste special, click value.
e. Calculate stripping ratio (SR), cummulative coal, overburden,
SR, and colour code of resgraphics.
SR (if coal = 0)

if OB < 1 then SR = 1
if OB > 1 then SR = OB

SR (if coal 0)

SR = (OB/coal)

coal cumm

IF(MID(A2;5;2)=MID(A1;5;2);B2+B1;B2)

OB cumm

=IF(MID(A2;5;2)=MID(A1;5;2);C2+C1;C2)

SR cumm

if OB cumm < 1 then SR cumm = 1

if OB cumm > 1 then SR cumm = OB

ress_code

if SR cumm > 4 then 200

170 110
110
4

if SR cumm < 4 then SRcumm

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f. Filter the data based on ress_code. Mineable coal represented by
ress_code which does not equal to 200. This data is ready to be
processed in Minescape for resgraphics.

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Note: Before this file imported to Minescape, clean all formatting,
such as: colour, bold, italic, underline, etc. One sheet in one excel
file for one shell. Copy this excel file to excel folder of project.

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RESGRAPH & INTERMEDIATE SHELLS
1. Import Excel data file to table file in Minescape.

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2. Open Minescape Explorer Action Resgraphics and click icon Process.

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3. Fill the dialog box as shown by picture 38.

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Output of resgraphics must be placed in blocks design file. In Controls,

reserve table file filled with table file which previously imported. Choose
what columns to be displayed. Fill colour filled with rgp_code column.
4. See the result on the layer then create a line following it.

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5. Detail the line and see that its z coordinates is various. Project it to
P144.

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6. Then, project the line with elevation refers to the shells elevation
(P048, P000, M048, M096, M144, M192, M240, & M300) and angle 20 0
(angle of high wall). Smooth the line by using delete vertices.
7. Duplicate the projected line to a new layer. The high wall is ready now.
8. Create shell by using the high wall and low wall flat (Picture 22).

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