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Volume 22, Number 11, December 2006
2006/2007 Training Schedule... page 11
24th Annual Mintec Seminar... page 12
Current Affairs:
How to Use Filtering in Drillole Views
in MineSight

v.3.60... page 2
Mintec Directory... page 5
Tips from Tech Support:
MineSight

Operations Tips and

Tricks... page 7
Trade Shows and Seminars... page 12
Web-based Training... page 11
Inside This Issue:
In MineSight

3-D v.3.60 the method you use to flter items in Drillhole Views was reworked to be more
versatile. You can now flter on multiple drillhole items and have multiple conditions by using Python-like
expressions.
Item fltering is available on both the Drillhole View Properties Intervals and Geotech tabs. To use flter-
ing, toggle ON the Filtering checkbox the fltering expression to be applied. Once the fltering expression has
been written and the Filtering option toggled ON, the changes will take effect after clicking on Apply.
How to Use Filtering in Drillhole
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The Drillhole Properties | Intervals tab dialog is shown in Figure 1 with the Item Filtering section outlined
in red. To the right, two drillholes are displayed that have item fltering applied.
Figure 2
The Drillhole Properties | Geotech tab dialog is shown in Figure 2, on the left, and the two Item Filtering
sections on this dialog are outlined in red. A fltered drillhole view, using the criteria shown in the dialog, is
displayed to the right of the dialog and a non-fltered view of the same drillhole is shown in the picture to the
far right.
Item fltering is accomplished by applying the Boolean true/false results of the flter expression entered in
the flter box. The flter expression is written using operators, functions, constants, and items from the Drill-
hole View in Python-like syntax.
In order to reference a drillhole item in the fltering expression, the proper syntax is to surround the item
name with $( ). For example, item CU is referenced as $(CU). The name must be a valid item name in the
Drillhole View.
The operators used to form the expression are similar to those used in Python. In addition, functions from
the Python math module can be used in the expression.
After applying item flter(s), only the data that passes the fltering criteria will be displayed in the Drillhole
View as shown.
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Display with no fltering applied. Filtering used in this case: Filtering used in this case:
Figure 3
As illustrated in Figure 3, from L - R, the same two drillholes are shown using different fltering criteria. In
all three cases, the intervals are color-coded by CU cutoffs. The interval values shown on the left side of the
drillhole trace are the CU values and the values on the right side are ROCK values. In the drillhole view shown
on the left, no fltering is applied and in that case, all of the intervals in the two drillholes are displayed. The
drillhole view in the middle is fltered to display only those intervals with a CU value greater than .5. Finally,
in the drillhole view on the right, the drillholes are fltered to display only those intervals that have both CU
values greater than .5 and ROCK values equal to 2.
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The following is a list of operators and functions that can be used to build fltering expressions in
MineSight

3-D v.3.60:
Operators Example
Mathematical:
+ addition $(CU) + $(CU2) > 3.0
- subtraction $(CU) - $(CU2) < 0
* multiplication $(CU) * 0.03 > 0.15
** exponential $(XTR1) ** 2 != $(XTR2)
/ division $(RAW)/0.50 > $(AG2)
// foor division ($CU)//1) != 3
% modulus $(ROCK)%10 = 0 displays values equal to 0, 10, 20...
Comparison:
< strictly less than $(CU) < 3.0
<= less than or equal $(CU2) <= 3.0
> strictly greater than $(CU2) > 3.0
>= greater than or equal $(CU2) >= 3.0
= equal $(CU2) = $(CU)
!= not equal $(CU2) != $(CU)
<> not equal (antiquated)
Logical:
or x or y $(MO) > 0.02 or $(CU) > 2.1
and x and y $(cu) > 0 and $(mo) != 0.050
not not x: if x is False, then True, else
False
not $(LNGTH)
Membership in Sequence:
in is a member in a sequence $(IROCK) in (1,3,5)
not in is not a member in a sequence $(ROCK) not in (soft, med)
Indexing:
X[i] A character at position i in an
alpha-numeric value (positions are
counted from 0)
$(RTYPE)[4] = 1
The string ROCK1 will satisfy the above condition
Slicing:
X[i:j] A substring of j characters
starting at position i in an alpha-
numeric value (positions are
counted from 0)
$(RTYPE)(0:4) = ROCK
Any string starting with ROCK will satisfy the above
condition
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Functions calls from Python math module:
ceil(x) Return the ceiling of x as a foat.
This is the smallest
integer value >=x.
ceil($(CU)) = 3
fabs(x) Return the absolute value of the foat
x.
fabs($(PITM)) > 3 and fabs($(PITM)) < 3.5
foor(x) Return the foor of x as a foat.
This is the largest integer value <= x.
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Functions calls from Python math module:
hypot(x,y) Return the Euclidean distance,
sqrt(x*x + y*y).
log(x) The natural logarithm of x.
log10(x) The base 10 logarithm of x.
modf(x) Return the fractional and integer
parts of x. Both results carry the
sign of x. The integer part is returned
as real.
pow(x,y) Return x**y (x to the power of y).
sqrt(x) Return the square root of x.
Trigonometric function calls:
acos(x) arc cosine (measured in radians) of x.
asin(x) arc sine (measured in radians) of x.
atan(x) arc tangent (measured in radians) of x.
atan2(y/x) arc tangent (measured in radians) of
y/x.
cos(x) cosine of x (measured in radians).
cosh(x) hyberbolic cosine of x.
sin(x) sine of x (measured in radians).
sinh(x) hyberbolic sine of x.
tan(x) tangent of x (measured in radians).
tanh(x) hyberbolic tangent of x.
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