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What’s New in BMM Explorer Version 3.3

In addition to bug fixes and performance improvements, BMM Explorer V 3.3 also includes:

• A new Planning Module to help customers determine the optimum number and location of BMMs to install in a blast.
• An improved 3D view functionality with the ability to visualise ore movement in 3D.
• Updates to Licence Manager with a new interface for BMM Activator (black activator only) registration.
• EUR added to Value Calculator

New Planning Module

The Planning Module helps customers determine the optimum number and location of BMMs to install in a blast. It helps answer the question “If a BMM is placed at a certain location, will it lead to a more accurate post-blast delineation of an ore / waste boundary and therefore more ore?”

This module calculates the optimal number and positions of BMMs in a blast. There are three ways to plan BMM holes:

1. Plan BMM Holes using blast holes and drawing expected areas of ore or ore-waste contacts
2. Plan BMM Holes using blast holes and importing preliminary ore polygons, such as bench above
3. Plan BMM Holes using bast holes and importing final-design ore polygons

The module provides the user with:

• A list BMM holes with labels and a table of corresponding X,Y,Z coordinates, in a soft copy exportable format (.csv)
• A plan view of BMM holes, with labels, and a table for coordinates in a pdf diagram

Using Version 3.3 you can optimise the location and number of BMM monitoring holes across the shot. This image shows BMMs planned throughout a manually-drawn expected ore area (green box), which also contains a restricted area (red box).