Model
2011 Dr. B. C. Paul
Note The term Gridded Seam Model comes from the MineSight package by
Mintec. These slides contain screenshot from the MineSight Computer
program and procedures shown in these slides can also in similar form be
found in Mintec training courses, help menus, training books, and news letters.
Where This Presentation Assumes
You Begin
You have a project initialized as a gridded
seam project
You have a collection of uncomposited drill
holes in a file 11
You have a surface
Your files 10, 11, and 12 exist.
What We Will Do
We will set up a drill hole composite file
that will compile and average all the
assays over the height of each seam
This is called a file 9 (drill hole composite file)
We will run a MineSight Compass
Procedure to composite the assays
We will set up a file 15 to contain our
gridded seam model
More Actions
We will interpolate the top of the 6 seam from
our drill hole data and store the result in our
GSM Model
We will interpolate the thickness of the 6 seam
from our drill hole data and store the result in our
GSM Model
We will calculate the bottom of the 6 seam as
Zbot = Ztop Thick
We will prepare a model view so we can look at
our model.
To Build a Drill Hole Composite I
Will Start with MineSight Compass
It is common to give
The file the 4 letter
Name of the project
And then the number
9. This allows the file
To be easily matched
To the project it goes
With and for people to
Know it is a file 9 or
Drill hole composite
File.
When I Do This the Program Tells
Me That a File 9 has been Added to
the Project
Progress Report
The first task of creating a composite file
has been completed
Our next task will be to composite our
assays over the thickness of each seam.
To Put Data in the Drill Hole Composite File
pick the Seam Compositing Program from
the Compass Menu
Note that I chose the
Menu tab.
When Im ready to
Move to the next
Panel click on the
Go forward arrow
(incidentally you can
Also go back)
The Next Panel is on What Seams
to Composite
Who ever started this
Project allowed 8 seams,
However, my drill hole
Data only covers three
Coal seams so I am
Going to tell the program
To composite only 3
Seams whos numbers
Are 2, 5, and 8 (seams
1,3,4,6, and 7 were put
There for something else
Not in the current drill
Logs)
The Next Panel Asks Me How to Match Item
Names in My Composite File to Item Names
in My Assay File
I have to tell the
Program what the
Seam variable is in
Each drill hole file.
There are other
Places to indicate if
Names of other items
Dont match in the
Two drill hole files.
(Since I made both
Drill hole files I was
Pretty consistent in
What I named
Things).
The Next Panel Asks Me Which Quality
Properties to Composite from the Assay File
into the Composite File.
I match the different
Items using the drop
Down menus. (I
Created both files so
My coal property
Names match in both
Files).
Its usually a good idea to read them to make sure everything executed correctly.
Progress Report
At this point drill hole composites covering
the 3 coal seam have been prepared.
The next task will be to ready a file15 for
the gridded seam model.
To Create Our File 15 We Again
Activate MineSight Compass
Under the Project Tab We Click on
the Project File Editor
In the Editor We Create a New File
This Time We Pick a File 15 (A
Gridded Seam Model)
Each Seam in The Gridded Seam Model can
Have Any Set of Information You Wish to
Keep Track Of
Type in what you like,
Its range of values,
And the precision
With which you want
To store the
Information.
It will be my file 9
My position is found
From the northing,
Easting, and Ztop
My result is to become
Part of my gridded
Seam model in my
File 15
I want it to use a
Gradient to interpolate
The top of my seam.
(My drill holes are to sparse and far apart to use Kriging right now)
The Next Panel Wants to Know
What I Will Interpolate
Im going to
Interpolate by
Seam
Over a range of
#2 to #2
(English translation
Im going to do
Interpolation on
The number 6
Coal seam)
Which Variable in the Seam Will Be
Interpolated?
This will be the
Second seam in
My Gridded Seam
Model (GSM)
The variable is
Ztop (the elevation
Of the top of the
Number 6 coal)
Reset values to -1
Before calculating
In case there is
Some silly number
There already.
It Wants to Know How Far to Look
for Drill Holes
Since I have an
Idea about how
Good my drill
Grid is I tell it
How far to look
For holes to
Interpolate.
The Program Announces Its Intent
to Run a Large Number of
Subroutines
It Begins to Run
Progress Report
We now have the top of the #6 coal seam
coded into our Gridded Seam Model
Next we will interpolate the thickness of
the coal seam into the Gridded Seam
Model
We will use simple IDW2 weighting
From the Compass Menu Pick The
IDW Routine
Tell It I Will Add My Results to File
15 in Seam #2
And click Ok
It Asks Me What to Display And
Suggests the Top of 6 Coal
Then I pick
Properties.
Under the Range Tab I Set the
Level to Study to My 6 Coal Seam
Using the Slider Boxes
The clue that I will
Look at the #6
Coal is this label
That says
coal6
Wow I Think Ive Got Something
I Pan Around and Zoom Out
Oh I think I have a
Big twist or discontinuity
Here.
I Can Use Query to Get a Run
Down on Various Points in the
Model
The ? Icon is for
Query.
Pick Properties.
Pick the Display Tab
Click on the little blue
Box and pick
Thick
Pick My Color Code Box
Put in a reasonable
Range and interval
For the coal seam
You are studying
And click Ok
It Gives Me My Range
Select properties
Set the Color Range