Maptek News

A Maptek, fornecedora de tecnologia de mineração e seu parceiro de distribuição MinLog consolidaram seus negócios com o MineSuite.

MinLog assumiu toda a responsabilidade pela distribuição, entrega, desenvolvimento e suporte do produto MineSuite,  para os clientes da Maptek, em 01 de janeiro de 2012.

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Maptek conducted a Vulcan training session for professors at the University of Chihuahua, Mexico, in April 2008.

The professors appreciated the chance to become familiar with the Vulcan tools that they will pass onto their students. Professor Angelica Mena, head of the Geology Laboratory, was impressed with Vulcan’s ease of use, workflow setup, data access and reporting tools.

After the introductory training, Mining and Metallurgical Engineering Career Coordinator, J. Alfredo Márquez, commented that ‘giving students the opportunity to access the best technology available shows we are concerned about providing excellence in academic programming’.

‘We are committed to developing the capabilities of our professors, and we understand the importance of Vulcan in the formation of competent mining professionals,’ Ing. Márquez added.

Maptek has supplied more than 500 academic licences of Vulcan software to premier universities around the world. Installing Vulcan in the learning environment benefits both students and their future employers. Graduate mining engineers and geologists can apply the knowledge gained and effectively hit the ground running when handed a task.

Barrick Exploration has purchased Vulcan for the Antofagasta/Barrick Reko Diq JV exploration project, potentially one of the world’s largest reserves of gold and copper discovered in 2007 in the Chaghi area in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan Province.

Barrick Kainantu, a gold mine in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea will use Vulcan for exploration and geological modelling.

Cía. Minera Antamina, a large copper/zinc mine in the Andes, North Central Peru, is using Chronos to help with its pit optimisation activities.

Cía. Minera Quebrada Blanca, an open pit truck & shovel copper mining operation southeast of Iquique in northern Chile, has acquired Vulcan.

Ferrous Resources do Brasil has purchased Vulcan for geological modelling, geostatistics and mine planning. The company has 4 mines in Brazil’s Minas Gerais region, and is also implementing a technology research centre near Esperança mine in Brumadinho city.

Integral Resource Consulting, a coal consultancy focusing on the Bowen Basin in Queensland, will use Vulcan for geological modelling.

Media Jungle Pty Ltd, based in Perth, Western Australia, has been helping mining and energy companies for over 20 years with corporate presentations. The Media Jungle will use Vulcan for generating sequences such as 3D project fly throughs for roadshows and capital raising.

Newcrest Mining’s Namosi gold and copper prospect in Fiji will use Vulcan for exploration. The Namosi site sits in the mountains about 30 km west of Fiji’s capital, Suva.

Phoenix Copper Limited has acquired a Vulcan Explorer licence for copper exploration work in the area around the historic mines of Burra, north of Adelaide, South Australia.

St Barbara Mines will apply Vulcan to its exploration efforts for gold and base metals near Leonora in Western Australia.

Stratford Coal, 95 km from Newcastle in the Gloucester Basin of New South Wales will use Vulcan for geological modelling and mine planning.

Sultan Corporation Limited, a base metals and emerging zinc producer in Western Australia is renting Vulcan for use in its exploration activities.

Uranium Exploration Australia, established in 2005 to explore for and develop commercial grade uranium mineralisation and associated copper and gold in tenements covering 9,800 km2, will use Vulcan for exploration.

Votorantim Metals, headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil, has acquired Vulcan for long term mine planning and Chronos for underground scheduling of several projects. Votorantim Metals operates in the zinc, nickel and flat steel markets.

Zilloc Pty Ltd, a consultancy based in New South Wales, will use Vulcan for geological modelling and resource estimation for its global customer base.

I-Site Studio™ now imports Optech point cloud data

Maptek™ has enabled direct file import functionality of Optech ILRIS-3D point cloud data (IXF format) into its I-Site™ Studio software.

Maptek I-Site Studio offers an impressive range of software tools developed specifically for laser scan data processing. Large point datasets can be efficiently interrogated, modelled and manipulated on a desktop PC or field laptop.

ILRIS-3D is a laser-based ranging and imaging system for the commercial survey, engineering, mining and industrial markets.

I-Site Studio software is the newest option for Optech customers aiming to meet or exceed their point cloud data processing objectives. The direct import of Optech’s ILRIS IXF data into I-Site Studio allows Optech system users to realise the benefits of the most effective solution for point cloud data processing.
Steven Wong, I-Site Director of International Business Development for Maptek.

The next level of scan processing

Maptek I-Site Studio 3.1™ represents the latest advance in the mining industry’s favourite scan processing software. We’ve listened to what I-Site Studio users have been asking for, and have spent many months adding fantastic enhancements to deliver even more meaningful results from scan data.

Top 10 Enhancements in Studio 3.1

• Apply photographic imagery to any modelled surface using drag and drop functionality
• Build animations effortlessly – simply specify a series of key frames to generate a movie
• Tie multiple window views together with a click of a button
• Remove stray spikes caused by dust, vegetation or other structures in 2D surfaces with a simple right click operation
• 2D text remains visible in all visualisation modes
• Handle new file formats such as Optech IXF formatted scans, custom ASCII file formats; also group .txt formats into scans, points and survey point categories, customise imported ASCII file format
• Break apart contours into individual lines
• Register scans to an underground frame for stope surveys
• DataEngine enhancements such as faster compaction of large DataEngines and improved DataEngine stability
• Automatically detect a USB storage device and prompt to import scan files from it