Open Pit Mine Planning and Design, Two Volume Set & CD-ROM Pack, Third Edition, 3rd Edition

CHAPTER 14

The CSMine tutorial

Computers play an important role in most phases of the mining business today. Their increas-

ing use in mine planning and design has meant that the engineers and planners can spend

more time evaluating alternative designs and asking what if types of questions rather than in

performing tedious hand calculations and drawing and redrawing the various maps by hand.

There are a number of different mine design software packages commercially available

and currently being used by both mining companies and mining universities throughout the

world. Each package differs rather significantly from the next. Although becoming more

user-friendly over time, all require a rather large time commitment to become proficient

in their use. In the surface mine design courses taught at most universities, the total time

spent in the classroom and laboratory is quite limited. Within this time frame both the fun-

damentals and the applications must be covered. To accomplish this demonstration of the

principles within the available time, a special, very user-friendly commercial quality soft-

ware package called CSMine has been developed. To demonstrate the use of the package,

a drill hole data set and the topography maps for the Arizona Copper property have been

included. The Arizona Copper property is described in Chapter 17.

Introduction to the software package is through the use of the CSMine tutorial included

in this chapter. It is expected that the diligent student should be confidently running the

software within 3 hours of first exposure. The CSMine users manual, included as Chapter

15, is intended to answer more detailed questions about the package.

By being able to design and plan in detail an actual open pit property, albeit on a somewhat

reduced scale, through the use of the software package the student’s learning experience

is increased. With the principles firmly in hand, the step up to the larger, more powerful

commercial software packages available in industry should be made easier.

WARRANTY

The software and accompanying written material are provided ‘as is’ without warranty

of any kind. Further, the authors do not warrant, guarantee, or make any representations

regarding the use, or the results of the use of the software or written materials in terms of the

correctness, accuracy, reliability, currentness, or otherwise. The entire risk as to the results

and performance of the software is assumed by you. If the software or written materials are

defective, you and not the authors assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair,

or correction.

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1006 Open pit mine planning and design: CSMine

The CSMine program included in edition 1 of this book was written for the DOS operating

system. The program has been completely rewritten as a more modern Windows program

using the Microsoft Visual C++, version 6.0, software development system. The program

has been tested using a standard PC computer running the Windows XP operating system.

Compatibility with previous or future versions of Windows cannot be guaranteed.

Hardware requirements

The CSMine program should run properly on any PC computer capable of running the

Microsoft Windows XP operating system. Printers and plotters are supported through

the Windows interface. A color printer is recommended but not required. Printing is

currently limited to standard Letter (8.5 by 11 inches) or A4 (210 by 297 mm) sized

paper.

Installing CSMine

CSMine comes on one standard CD disk that includes the program files and the demonstra-

tion data sets needed to run the tutorial. The following subdirectories and files should be

present:

\Program_Files

CSMine.exe

MFC42D.DLL

MFC042D.DLL

MSVCIRTD.DLL

MSVCRTD.DLL

\Data_Files

Tutor.kon

Ex1.cmp

Ex2.cmp

\Ariz_Cu

ArizCu.kon

ArizCu.dhf

ArizCuElev.elv

A number of folders are present within the folder named ‘Data_Files’. Each of these folders

contains a data set that may be used with CSMine. Only the contents of the folder ‘Ariz_Cu’

are shown here.

The InstallShield installation program can be used to install CSMine. From the root

directory on the CD:

SELECT: the ‘SETUP.exe’ program

Follow the instructions given by the InstallShield Wizard. It is recommended that the

directory C:\\CSMine be selected as the destination location for the installation.

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The CSMine tutorial

To manually install the program using Windows Explorer, copy the directory structure and

files as shown above directly to your computer’s hard disk. It is recommended that the

program files be copied to the following directory:

C:\\CSMine

\Program_Files

CSMine.exe

:

:

\Data_Files

Tutor.kon

:

:

\Ariz_Cu

ArizCu.kon

:

:

Create a desktop shortcut to the program by right clicking on the program file CSMine.exe

and dragging it to the desktop.

To uninstall CSMine, if the InstallShield program was used for installation, from the

directory where the program was installed:

SELECT: the ‘uninst.isu’ program

Manually delete all the installed files if the program was installed manually.

Running CSMine

The program can be started by double clicking on the CSMine desktop icon, or by dou-

ble clicking on the program CSMine.exe from Windows Explorer. Once started, the main

program screen should be displayed.

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