ThreeDify FlowPit is an unique pit limit optimization tool that is an order of magnitude faster than many competing technologies.
ThreeDify FlowPit Version 1.2.5 is a program and a VB callable COM object designed to find the optimal final limit of an open-pit mine given an economic block model. It implements the maximum flow algorithm for determination of the final pit limit. ThreeDify FlowPit offers the following benefits: 1) Use of bounding techniques; 2) Engineered to handle large block models; 3) Support for variable pit slope; 4) Allowance for exclusion regions; 5) Use of floating point arithmetic for accurate optimal solution; 6) Also available as VB-callable COM object.
Coming-up, ThreeDify Flowpit Version 2.0 featuring: 1) Ability to rapidly generate multiple nested pits for pit sequencing and/or up-scaled pits for sensitivity analysis in a single FlowPit run. Such an ability is sometimes referred to as 4D in some other expensive open pit strategic planning packages. FlowPit 2.0 does it in an extremely efficient manner： FlowPit 2.0 Beta took 15 minutes to generate 31 (20 nested, 10 up-scaled and 1 final) pits in a single run for a block model of 144x74x62 dimensions.
2) New GUI front-end with re-blocking and graphical post processing capabilities, i.e, ability to graphically view stripping ratio graphs, plan and cross sectional views showing nested and/or up-scaled pits in real time.
