Underground design concepts

Terminology

• Centreline – a line which represents the centre of a drive. You can use the centreline to create solid models, or outlines for plots that are in plan view.
• Drive – a tunnel, or opening in rock, also known as a drift, or crosscut.
• Stope – a 3-dimensional area (usually ore) which is to be mined out by blasting a series of long holes or ring design holes.

Underground mine design concepts

There are many different scenarios where you might want to create an underground mine design.

In this tutorial, you will use:

• 3D solid models of designed stopes
• strings representing ore outlines at each level where a design is to be created

You will open files containing this data in Graphics, and then use various editing and point creation tools to create the underground mine design.