Research and application of the digital mine software QuantyMine

Abstract

The digital mine software development is the key step for building the digital mine. A digital mine software named QuantyMine has been developed, which is composed of seven subsystems and can be employed to build the digital mine. There are many key technologies involved in the software, three of which are discussed in this paper. The first one is three-dimensional visualization mine modeling technology; the second one is dynamic reserve estimation technology responding to the changing market; and the third one is system integration technology for mine informationization. The following functions can be realized by employing the QuantyMine: (1) All kinds of mine data including survey data, geology data, geophysical data, geochemical data, assay data, environment data, remote sensing data can be stored in the central Oracle database, which acts as a shared data platform for the digital mine. (2) All kinds of mine map could be drawn automatically or semi automatically by computer based on the central mine subject database. (3) 3D mine modeling and visualization, and three-dimension spatial analyses can be fulfiled. (4) It facilitates the mine reserve estimation using vertical section method, geological block method and kriging method estimate. (5) Mine design and planning can be performed. (6) Digital mine can be run on the internet. Based on this system, a basic digital mine of Zijin copper and gold mine has been constructed.