GEOVIA SURPAC

WORLD’S MOST POPULAR GEOLOGY

AND MINE PLANNING SOFTWARE
INTEGRATED GEOLOGY, RESOURCE MODELING,
MINE PLANNING AND PRODUCTION

GEOLOGICAL AND RESOURCE MODELING

BENEFITS Enabling geologists to determine the physical characteristics
• Better sharing of data, skills and project knowledge increases of a deposit with limited information is a key capability of
efficiencies within teams. Surpac, which harnesses powerful 3D graphics, geostatistics,
• Tasks in Surpac can be automated for compliance with and an integrated modeling environment.
company-specific processes and data flows for increased time
savings and consistency of execution. Data management
• Software ease-of-use quickly ensures staff develops an • Employ sophisticated database tools to store, manage and
understanding of the system and project data quickly. review drilling data.
• Surpac is modular and easily customized to adapt to • Interface to any popular database product and work in real
changing needs. time while connected to that data.
• Surpac reduces data duplication and interfaces with common • View and output sections quickly and easily using drillholes
file formats from Aerial Survey, Photogrammetry, GIS, CAD and existing topographic or pre-modeled data.
and other systems.
• Work with textured wireframe objects from scanned or
• Multilingual support: English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish
photogrammetry sources to enable direct 3D geological
and French.
mapping of contacts, boundaries and surfaces.

Estimation and modeling

GEOVIA Surpac is the most widely used software system of
™
• Surpac contains outstanding tools for sample compositing
its kind in the world, supporting open pit and underground and geostatistics.
mining operations and exploration projects in more than 120 • Variogram modeling includes variogram fans and dynamic
countries. Surpac enables mining practitioners to quantify and lag adjustment to help identify the best variograms for data.
evaluate mineral deposits and to plan the efficient extraction
of reserves. • Estimation tools include an interface to GSLIB for both
normal kriging and conditional simulation options.
• Comprehensive 3D wireframing tools enable the
development of a truly representative model of any orebody.
• Surpac block modeling tools cover an extensive range of
functionality and are easy to use. With multiple cores,
validating a model and generating any level of report can
be done quicker than ever.

Block model constrained and colored by grade with drill hole

traces displayed.

Wireframe orebody model showing grade block model and Surpac geostatistical anisotropy ellipsoid defined by
drilling data. variogram maps.
 “Surpac’s automation capabilities save tremendous time and effort and give our users
and departments access to geological and deposit data in standard file formats.”
— Markus Oehmen, Geologist, Rheinkalk GmbH

MINE PLANNING Modern survey practices are supported through a proprietary

Whether creating designs and plans for open pit or high performance point cloud engine that allows users to
underground operations, Surpac provides engineers with all work with point clouds of any size from aerial, vehicle and
the tools they need. In this integrated environment, designs terrestrially based systems.
can be created to maximize ore recovery, while complying with
Mine survey and ore control
project constraints such as cut- off grade, economic limits and
• Calculate and validate volumes quickly.
ground stability.
• Compare kriged models against raw drillhole data to
• Data from various sources can be viewed and incorporated
optimize reserve extraction.
into plans to support feasibility projects.
• Produce high quality to-scale maps of any relevant project
• Different pieces of information can be viewed simultaneously
information.
to ensure designs are within the physical constraints of the
mining area and to maximize the economic extraction of • Road and pit design tools are geared towards surveying
a resource. setout, ensuring the necessary details required by earth
movers are marked out accurately.
• Data can be used directly from other software package
formats with Surpac’s sophisticated Data Plug-ins. • Integrated resource models, pit designs and survey data
results in up-to-date ore markouts and dig plans with grade
• Interact with all mine design data: drillholes; existing orebody
and tonnage reports.
and surface models; optimized pit shells; block and grid
models, colored by grade distribution; and many more. Automated workflows
• Step through planes, delineate stope boundaries to create • Highlight end-of-month reconciliations and reporting
design solids and then divide these solids into practical problems through the simple automation of comparison
mining shapes quickly and easily with underground stope reports using Surpac’s macro tools.
design tools.
• Automate repetitive grade control and plotting tasks using
MINE PRODUCTION macro functionality, customizable to company-specific
processes and data flows.
Surpac is used at mine sites throughout the world for
mine production, providing integrated applications for mining • Develop new functions using the scripting language
engineers, geologists and mine surveyors, ensuring clear plans, embedded within Surpac and assign routines to customized
effective communication and consistent data utilization. The menu bars to better manage work flows.
software manages borehole, blasting and survey information,
while linking to other databases used at mining operations.

Surpac at a base metal operation. View drillholes, under-ground

workings, ore zone and resource block model.

Full color RGB Point cloud of a waste dump. Plotting functionality—includes images and digital terrain models
to scale.
EXTEND YOUR CAPABILITIES WITH THESE GEOVIA SYSTEMS

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