Creating stopes

In this tutorial you will use solids to represent the stopes. In some situations you will have existing solids that conform to the mining constraints, such as the minimum mining width and the angle of the stope. If you do not already have solids that conform to the practical mining constraints, you can use the Stope Design and Stope Slicer features of Surpac to create these solids.

Note: You must have a licence for the Stope Design Tools module to use the Stope Design commands and Stope Slicer.

In Stope design, you digitise polygons on planes and join them together to form a solid. With a shorter distance between polygons, you create more detailed stope solids (and more planes and polygons). The distance that you choose depends on how much detail you require. You also need to make sure that the stope shapes you create are practically mineable. That is, you design the stopes so that your mining equipment can mine the stopes and manoeuvre.