| Surpac

World’s most popular

geology and mine
planning software
Integrated Geology,
Resource Modelling, Mine
Planning and Production
GEOVIA Surpac™ is the most widely used software system of
Benefits its kind in the world, supporting open pit and underground
• Increased efficiencies within teams result mining operations and exploration projects in more than 120
from better sharing of data, skills and project countries. Surpac enables mining practitioners to quantify
knowledge. and evaluate mineral deposits and to plan the efficient
extraction of reserves.
• All tasks in Surpac can be automated and
aligned to company-specific processes and Geological and Resource Modeling
data flows. Enabling geologists to determine the physical characteristics
• Software ease-of-use ensures staff develop of a deposit with limited information is a key capability of
an understanding of the system and project Surpac, which harnesses powerful 3D graphics, geostatistics,
data quickly. and an integrated modelling environment.

• Surpac is modular and easily customized. Data Management

• Employ sophisticated database tools to store, manage and
• Surpac reduces data duplication by connecting
review drilling data.
to relational databases and interfacing with
common file formats from GIS, CAD and other • Interface to any popular database product and work in real
systems. time while connected to that data.
• View and output sections quickly and easily using drillholes
• Multilingual support: English, Chinese,
and existing topographic or pre-modelled data.
Russian, Spanish and French.
Estimation and Modeling
• Surpac contains outstanding tools for sample compositing
and geostatistics.
• Variogram modeling includes variogram fans and dynamic
lag adjustment to help identify the best variograms for data.
• Estimation tools include an interface to GSLIB for both
normal kriging and conditional simulation options.
• Comprehensive 3D wireframing tools enable the
development of a truly representative model of any orebody.
• Surpac block modeling tools cover an extensive range of
functionality and are easy to use. Validating a model and
Block model constrained and coloured by generating any level of report can be done quickly and
grade with drill hole traces displayed. efficiently.

Wireframe orebody model showing grade block Surpac geostatistical anisotropy ellipsoid defined by
model and drilling data. variogram maps.

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 “Surpac’s automation capabilities save tremendous time and effort and give our users
and departments access to geological and deposit data in standard file formats.”
— Markus Oehmen, Geologist, Rheinkalk GmbH

Mine Planning clear plans, effective communication and consistent data

Whether creating designs and plans for open pit or utilization. The software manages borehole, blasting and
underground operations, Surpac provides engineers with all survey information, while linking to other databases used at
the tools they need. In this integrated environment, designs mining operations.
can be created to maximize ore recovery, while complying Mine Survey and Ore Control
with project constraints such as cut- off grade, economic • Calculate and validate volumes quickly.
limits and ground stability.
• Compare kriged models against raw drillhole data to
• Data from various sources can be viewed and incorporated optimize reserve extraction.
into plans to support feasibility projects. • Produce high quality to-scale maps of any relevant project
• Different pieces of information can be viewed information.
simultaneously to ensure designs are within the physical • Road and pit design tools are geared towards surveying
constraints of the mining area and to maximize the setout, ensuring the necessary details required by earth
economic extraction of a resource. movers are marked out accurately.
• Data can be used directly from other software package • Integrated resource models, pit designs and survey data
formats with Surpac’s sophisticated Data Plug-ins.
results in up-to-date ore markouts and dig plans with
• Interact with all mine design data: drillholes; existing orebody grade and tonnage reports.
and surface models; optimized pit shells; block and grid
Automated Workflows
models, coloured by grade distribution; and many more.
• Highlight end-of-month reconciliations and reporting
• Step through planes, delineate stope boundaries to create problems through the simple automation of comparison
design solids and then divide these solids into practical reports using Surpac’s macro tools.
mining shapes quickly and easily with underground stope
• Automate repetitive grade control and plotting tasks using
design tools.
macro functionality, customisable to company-specific
Mine Production processes and data flows.
Surpac is used at mine sites throughout the world for • Develop new functions using the scripting language
mine production, providing integrated applications for embedded within Surpac and assign routines to customized
mining engineers, geologists and mine surveyors, ensuring menu bars to better manage work flows.

Surpac at a base metal

operation. View drillholes,
under-ground workings, ore
zone and resource block model.

Surpac solids repair rapidly converts “non-watertight” solids Plotting functionality –

from third party sources into valid solids. includes images and digital
terrain models to scale.

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scheduling, optimization and analysis underground mines of all sizes and provides secure remote collaboration
system for open pit mines. Mine types. It incorporates a broad set that organizes, centralizes and enables
planners depend on the system to of built-in functionality, proven the reliable sharing of exploration,
help them maximize NPV, balance scheduling algorithms, and multiple planning, and production data,
schedules, and to optimize blends output results such as graphics and allowing users, workgroups and teams
and stockpiles. With results that are charts. MineSched creates schedules to work together no matter where they
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