Pit Reserves and Resources in a GSM ©2012 Dr. B. C. Paul This presentation involves the program MineSight created by Mintec and contains screen shots taken directly from the program and its help documentation. Credit is given to Mintec for this material.

GSM Challenges Many procedures that can be used in a 3D block model cannot be used for GSM models. –These slides suggest ways to quickly locate resources and routines that are available for GSM models.

Go to Compass On the compass menu Under group – pick 5b- GSM Modeling This applies a filter that will show only Procedures that can be run on a GSM Model Now look at the description. See whether You can find a procedure that offers to Do what you need.

Look at the Procedure You Think Will Work Suppose I think that GSM Reserves looks like something I need I note that the program name is gsmres.dat

Now I Look for Help with that Procedure I click the Help Tab in MineSight Compass and pick MineSight Compass Help

The Compass Help Menu Comes Up Two areas contain the Names of procedures and Details about what they Do and what kind of input They need to run.

If I Pick Procedure Help I Get a Long List of Compass Procedures I look for the name of the Procedure I am interested in. In this case gsmres.dat Oh look here it is! Click on it.

I Get A Run-Down on GSMres.dat

The Bottom of the Description Tells Me Which Source Codes are Run I can use these source code names to track down even more information

If I Pick Basis Program Documentation I can get information on Specific source code Routines.

Up Comes A Table of Contents with Red “Hot Links” to Code Information

Now This Looks Promising All the 700 series programs are gsm programs and down here at the bottom is an Overview on doing gsm calculations.