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    AMC consultants helped improve the design and scheduling of an underground mine by using sparse historical data to construct a reliable geotechnical model. The historical data consisted of hand-written logs without direct rock quality measurements. Through innovative use of Datamine software, AMC was able to incorporate this poor-quality secondary data into a rock quality designation (RQD) model, eliminating the need for extra costly data collection. The resulting model provided engineers with a realistic representation of rock quality to inform stope design and ground support parameters, saving both time and costs for the client.

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    AMC consultants helped improve the design and scheduling of an underground mine by using sparse historical data to construct a reliable geotechnical model. The historical data consisted of hand-written logs without direct rock quality measurements. Through innovative use of Datamine software, AMC was able to incorporate this poor-quality secondary data into a rock quality designation (RQD) model, eliminating the need for extra costly data collection. The resulting model provided engineers with a realistic representation of rock quality to inform stope design and ground support parameters, saving both time and costs for the client.

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    AMC consultants helped improve the design and scheduling of an underground mine by using sparse historical data to construct a reliable geotechnical model. The historical data consisted of hand-written logs without direct rock quality measurements. Through innovative use of Datamine software, AMC was able to incorporate this poor-quality secondary data into a rock quality designation (RQD) model, eliminating the need for extra costly data collection. The resulting model provided engineers with a realistic representation of rock quality to inform stope design and ground support parameters, saving both time and costs for the client.

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    AMC consultants helped improve the design and scheduling of an underground mine by using sparse historical data to construct a reliable geotechnical model. The historical data consisted of hand-written logs without direct rock quality measurements. Through innovative use of Datamine software, AMC was able to incorporate this poor-quality secondary data into a rock quality designation (RQD) model, eliminating the need for extra costly data collection. The resulting model provided engineers with a realistic representation of rock quality to inform stope design and ground support parameters, saving both time and costs for the client.

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    CASE STUDY

    The Challenge The Result


    AMC consultants have been tackling some of the most By incorporating the poor-quality secondary data into a
    challenging modelling and engineering problems facing RQD model, the need gather data through extra costly
    the mining industry for over thirty years. As a long-term mapping and drilling was eliminated.
    customer of Datamine, AMC have used their software
    on hundreds of consulting projects. The model AMC generated gave the engineers a
    realistic and robust geotechnical model to inform the
    One reason for AMC’s continued use of Datamine parameters used for stope design and ground support.
    software is because it provides the ability to implement
    data modelling and engineering methodologies that Without the model, engineers would have had much
    are highly specific to individual situations. less information and been forced to make worst-case
    assumptions. This would have changed the economics
    The Solution of the stopes, their planned extraction rates and the
    extraction sequence.
    Recently, AMC were able were able to help improve
    the design and scheduling of a large underground mine Through imaginative use of Datamine Studio RM
    by using sparse historical data to construct a reliable processes AMC were able to convert previously
    geotechnical model containing RQD and Q prime unusable qualitative data into a defensible and practical
    derived values. model that represented the deposit’s rock quality.

    The historical data was in the form of a database The model could be used by engineers to save time
    of hand-written logs and contained no direct RQD and costs that will benefit the client over the short and
    measurements. long-term

    Typically, a variety of Kriging is used on the recorded READ DETAILED REPORT for more information
    values to estimate the RQD values throughout the about the technical details of this project and the
    deposit and use these to influence the safe design of methodology used to create the model.
    stopes and determine the difficulty and timing of their
    extraction. Because the historical data did not contain
    direct RQD measurements the standard estimation
    methodology was not automatically applicable.

    Qualitative descriptions were used as a proxy to derive


    discrete indicator values to represent rock quality.

    A multiple indicator Kriging methodology was used


    with the discrete values to estimate a model. Further
    post processing based on a probabilistic approach,
    including Monte Carlo simulations, was used to refine
    the MIK output resulting in a defensible and practical
    model that represented the deposit’s rock quality.

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