Mining Magazine > Panorama > Gemcom announces new GEMS 6.3 and Gemcom Surpac 6.2

Gemcom Software International has released Gemcom GEMS 6.3, the latest version of its collaborative geology and mine planning software. GEMS supports exploration, open pit, and underground operations and is used to quantify, model, plan, and schedule mineral deposits. With a focus on data management, GEMS brings accuracy and integrity to all exploration and mining data.

Included in GEMS 6.3 are important enhancements such as expanded solids and surfaces triangle editing functionality, and more robust block modelling capabilities to improve resource estimation and validation. This release also incorporates added support for use with a 3D mouse to enable simultaneous on-screen navigation and editing, and updates to the GEMS PlotMaker feature for greater ease-of-use when generating plots.

GEMS 6.3 highlights:

•Enhanced solids and surfaces triangle editing options save users time and adds flexibility
•3D mouse support significantly improves user productivity by enabling simultaneous on-screen navigation and editing
•More robust block modelling capabilities for better resource estimation and validation
•Additional database tools for filtering on multiple tables result in cleaner, more refined views of data
•Enriched importing of drillhole data with automatic reconciliation of differing source and destination drillhole lengths
•New version of GEMS’ PlotMaker feature provides users with more output options.

Gemcom has also released of Gemcom Surpac 6.2, the latest version of its geology and mine planning software focusing on powerful 3D graphics and workflow automation.

Considerable time-savings can be achieved in Surpac 6.2 thanks to a new, powerful algorithm for digital terrain model (DTM) creation, saving users hours per day when working with complex calculations. Further release features include improvements to the drillhole database, greater block modelling functionality, and enhancements made to the interoperability of data between systems used in conjunction with Surpac.

Surpac 6.2 highlights:

•Rapid DTM creation – up to ten times faster.
•New 2D transform DTM function enables users to transform DTM surfaces and 3D solids from one coordinate system to another.
•Enhanced data interoperability between systems often used with Surpac, including Gemcom Whittle and AutoCAD 2010.
•Enriched drillhole database with added capabilities for specifying minimum and maximum values for drillhole labels.
•Expanded block modelling functionality.