We provide powerful tools that support geologists, mine engineers and other professionals in achieving their design and modelling goals. “Vulcan 9.1 continues the direction Maptek set several years ago. These scenarios would take days to run manually. Users can change parameters and get an alternative design in seconds. Click a button and create the mine design at a strategic level. “Underground mine design is fully automated. The introduction of the Gantt Scheduler sets a new standard in integrating design and scheduling. “Underground mine engineers will benefit from the faster, streamlined approach to long term strategic planning and detailed design tasks. There’s virtually no limit on what can be run. Enhancements take advantage of computing GPU. “With Implicit Modelling, users can set up large, multi-domain geology models with confidence that all the downstream processes can handle the complexity and size of the data. “With the new Gantt Scheduler users can create, sequence, allocate resources, animate scenarios and report activities efficiently and transparently. The result is a superior design based on ‘what if’ scenarios. Improved analysis and viewing tools allow more scenarios to be run in the same timeframe. “Pit optimisations are considerably faster. “Where previous versions of Vulcan had to simplify data to solve the problem, the new version will run a calculation in minutes. For example, with Pit Optimiser, a calculation that took four hours now takes three minutes in Vulcan 9.1. We want to ensure customers spend less time in processing data, allowing more time for critical analysis and decision making. “Vulcan 9.1 delivers improvements across the board. Maptek Vulcan 9.1 also contains major enhancements to Borehole Geophysics, Stratigraphic and HARP Modelling tools and Pit Optimiser.Įric Gonzalez, Vulcan Product Manager provides a preview of the upgrades and their impact. The primary new features of Vulcan 9.1 are Gantt Scheduler for underground, the second phase of the Implicit Modelling capability and Level Designer for stope access design. Intuitive tools help operations all resource types and mining techniques improve productivity.
Vulcan software, says Maptek, “provides the mining industry with the most advanced 3D geological modelling, mine design and production planning solutions.” It is in use across the globe with applications ranging from exploration, through geological modelling, design and planning to rehabilitation. Maptek Vulcan 9.1 contains new tools for underground scheduling, stope access design, implicit modelling, pit optimisation and more.