Studio 3. Open Pit Design User Guide / Студия 3. Руководство пользователя по проектированию карьеров

Studio 3 provides many tools for designing pits, dumps and other types of surface excavations. This introduction will identify some of these tools and suggest an approach to pit design.
Before you can start a detailed pit design you need to have some idea of the existing surface topography, the extent and nature of the orebody and the economic or ultimate pit limit of the mine.
There are several ways to do this depending on what information you have available and also how you prefer to do your design.
In this section, the basic aspects of open pit mine design are described, to give you some idea of how Studio 3 matches real-world pit design requirements. <...>