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Reporting
Table of Contents
Overview
 What You'll Learn

 Block Model Report
 Isosurfaces
 Exporting Centroids
 Review
 Where To Next
Overview
What You'll Learn
This section demonstrates the use of the Block model report function and associated exporting functions:
 Block model reporting
 Isosurfaces - 3D contours
 Exporting block model centroids
Block Model Report
The Block Model Report function allows you to create a customisable report for printing. You may choose to report
average or aggregate values for numeric attributes, as well as ordering the report by attribute. You can create a
template for reporting so that subsequent runs of the same report can be made using different constraints.
This function may be accessed from the main Block modelling menu by selecting Block model - Report. Reports
suitable for printing are quick and easy to produce and the next exercise will demonstrate the use of this function.
Objective
The first report you will produce will show the Volume, Tonnage and average gold concentration, every 10 metres in
elevation, for several nominated gold concentration ranges.
1. Make sure you have training.mdl loaded up. Either click and drag the model from the navigator to load or
chose Block model open. Choose Report from the Block model menu We need to define a format for our
report .
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You can chose one of a number of different formats for your report to be created in. The choices are:
html - for use with web browsers

rtf - format used by many word processing packages
pdf - Adobe Acrobat format
ps - Postscript files - many printers read this format directly
not - the original Surpac text file
csv - can be imported into spreadsheets and databases easily
If you make a format file for your block model report you have a convenient way of obtaining the same format report
within various constraints ie you can run this report again for some other part of the ore body without recreating a new
format file.
2. Enter the parameters as shown below.
 Report description
Your header may be of any length and will appear on all reports produced with this format
 Attributes to report
You may list any number of numeric attributes to be averaged.

 Weight by mass, volume or none
Mass is most common. When using mass a multiplication factor for the volume must be entered eg a specific gravity.
 Report
Average or aggregate (the nominated attribute can be reported as an average, ie. average copper grade or
aggregated, i.e. summation of all the stored attribute values).
 Multiplication factor volume
Volume and mass may be reported. If you wish to report for volume mass, then this may be calculated by using a
fixed value, or by using a nominated attribute.
 Attributes to group
List here the way in which attributes are to be grouped and the order to appear in the report. In this example, the
report will be grouped by elevation (z) from 820 to 1020 every 10 metres, and grouped by gold grade in the nominated
cut-off grades. As the z attribute is listed first the report will show each elevation and then the grade ranges for each
elevation.
3. Enter the constraint as shown below.
The report will be produced. The message window will show the total volume, mass and average gold grade. The full
report is contained in the file called training.csv.
The message window should report the grand total volume and tonnes for immediate verification that the report has
been completed.
4. The report will appear in the report viewer window.

5. Produce a report grouped by material type and gold grade. You will need to make a new format file. Choose
Report from the Block model menu and enter the parameters shown below.
You will notice we are producing a report in a different format just so you can see the difference. Each site will have
different requirements for reporting.
6. Fill in the block model report form as follows.
7. Enter the character attributes for material as shown below and apply the form..
8. Enter the constraint as shown below.
9. The resultant file will appear in the report viewer. The grand total should match the previous report
`training.csv'. This is a good check.
10. Try creating a report which reports average gold grade and groups by elevation, material type and gold
grade for QPY and BIF.
Isosurfaces
This function generates 3D triangulations of approximations to isosurfaces (that is, surfaces with a constant attribute
value) from data stored in the block model.
The 3DMs generated by this function are typically used to enhance the visualisation of data. eg. a 3D contour of the 2
gram cutoff surface for a particular attribute.
As with all functions in Block Modelling, you may apply a simple or complex constraint to the model when generating
the isosurface.
Exporting Centroids
This function is used to export out a block model for use in another mining software package. There are two different
methods - export centroids and export centroids and block faces. These functions produce a string file with the
centroid position and selected attributes listed in the descriptive fields. The easiest method to use is found under the
Block model menu - Export - Block centroids to string file. The resultant string file is an Ascii file which can be easily
read in a text editor.
Review
This section has covered the basics concepts of:

 Block Model Reports
 Isosurfaces
 Exporting centroids
Further information is available in the Online Reference Manual. Please review and practice these reports to gain a
full understanding of them.
Where To Next
The next section deals with the extraction of sections from the Block Model.

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Block Model Report

html - for use with web browsers

2. Enter the parameters as shown below.

You may list any number of numeric attributes to be averaged.

4. The report will appear in the report viewer window.

This section has covered the basics concepts of:

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