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Method Shape Plunge Thickness Grades Depth RMR Ore RMR HW

Open Pit
Block Caving
Sublevel Stoping
Sublevel Caving
Longwall
Room and Pillar
Shrinkage Stoping
Cut and Fill
Top Slicing
Square Set

Input Data << Click on the 'Input Data' button to begin

Final Results UBC Mining Method Selector

1 Sublevel Stoping 37
2 Cut and Fill 35 Mining Method Selector Algorithm developed by:
3 Open Pit 32 Miller-Tait, L., Pakalnis, R. and Poulin, R., (1995), UBC Mining Method
4 Shrinkage Stoping 28 4th Int'l. Symp. on Mine Planning & Equipment Selection, Calgary, 31 O
5 Sublevel Caving 24
6 Room and Pillar 21 Excel and Visual Basic Implementation by:
7 Block Caving 20 Jeff Breadner (1999). (jbreadner@yahoo.com)
8 Longwall 17
9 Top Slicing 16 Original Idea:
10 Square Set 13 Nicholas, D. (1992) SME Mining Engineering Handbook, 2nd Edition, V

If you have any comments or questions about the excel implementation o

please contact Jeff Breadner at jbreadner@yahoo.com
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nt Selection, Calgary, 31 Oct-3 Nov, 1995, pp. 163-168.

Handbook, 2nd Edition, Volume 2, pg. 2091-2108.

bout the excel implementation of this program,

er at jbreadner@yahoo.com
 DO NOT MODIFY THESE DATA!
This information is core to this mining selection process!

Shape Plunge Thickne

Method Equidimensional Platy/Tabular Irregular Flat Moderate Steep V. Narrow
Open Pit 4 2 3 3 3 1 1
Block Caving 4 2 0 3 2 4 -49
Sublevel Stoping 3 4 1 2 1 4 -10
Sublevel Caving 3 4 1 1 1 4 -49
Longwall -49 4 -49 4 0 -49 4
Room and Pillar 0 4 2 4 0 -49 4
Shrinkage Stoping 0 4 2 -49 0 4 4
Cut and Fill 1 4 4 1 3 4 3
Top Slicing 1 2 0 4 2 0 1
Square Set 0 1 4 2 3 2 4
 Thickness Grades Depth
Narrow Intermediate Thick V. Thick Low Moderate High <100m 100-600 >600m
2 3 4 4 3 3 2 4 0 -49
-49 0 3 4 3 2 2 2 3 3
1 3 4 3 4 4 3 3 4 2
-49 0 4 4 3 2 2 3 2 2
3 0 -49 -49 4 1 0 2 2 3
3 1 -49 -49 4 2 0 3 3 2
4 0 -49 -49 3 2 2 3 3 2
4 4 1 0 2 3 4 2 3 4
1 0 2 1 2 1 1 2 1 1
3 2 0 0 0 1 3 1 1 2
 RMR Ore RMR Hanging Wall
V. Weak Weak Moderate Strong V. Strong V. Weak Weak Moderate Strong
3 3 3 3 3 2 3 4 4
4 3 2 0 -49 3 3 3 2
1 3 4 4 4 -49 0 3 4
3 4 3 1 0 4 4 3 2
6 6 4 2 2 6 5 4 3
-49 0 3 5 6 -49 0 3 5
0 1 3 3 3 0 0 2 4
0 1 2 3 3 3 5 4 3
3 2 1 1 0 0 0 2 3
4 4 1 0 0 4 4 1 0
Wall RMR Footwall RSS Ore
V. Strong V. Weak Weak Moderate Strong V. Strong V. Weak Weak Moderate
4 2 3 4 4 4 4 3 3
2 3 3 3 2 2 4 2 1
4 0 0 2 3 3 0 2 4
2 1 2 3 3 3 2 3 3
3 0 0 0 0 0 6 5 2
6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
4 0 0 2 3 3 0 1 3
3 3 3 2 2 2 0 1 3
3 0 0 1 2 2 3 2 1
0 3 1 0 0 0 4 3 1
S Ore RSS Hanging Wall RSS Footwall
Strong V. Weak Weak Moderate Strong V. Weak Weak Moderate Strong
3 3 3 4 4 3 3 4 4
0 4 3 2 0 4 3 2 1
4 0 1 4 5 0 1 3 3
2 4 3 2 1 1 2 2 2
1 6 5 2 2 0 0 0 0
6 0 0 2 6 0 0 0 0
4 0 1 3 4 0 2 3 3
3 3 5 4 2 1 3 3 2
0 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1
0 4 2 1 0 3 2 0 0