Incorporate structural data into your geological models, pit designs and underground mine designs.

Stereonet Viewer runs independently or alongside Datamine’s Studio and has a full Windows interface, making it very easy to use.

The Stereonet Viewer is a powerful tool for the analysis of slope stability both underground and on the surface. The main purpose of the stereonet in structural geology is to aid the determination of structural trends. This might be a purely statistical analysis which would identify whether the data is random or has a preferred orientation, or data distributions may indicate some key structural issues.

The main applications for the Steronet Viewer are:

• Structural analysis of joint and fault surveys.
• Pit slope stability analysis.
• Underground stability analysis.

Datamine’s Stereonet Viewer is unique in the way that it can deal with live 3D data. Not only can it identify the general trends that other software does, it can also relate each pole or plane to a specific point in three dimensional space such that any slope stability assessments can be attributed to an area.

Datamine’s Steronet Viewer can be run as a standalone product or, to gain maximum advantage from its ability to use live 3D data, as a module within Datamine Studio. Stereonet Viewer and Datamine’s Studio communicate via the Object Data Server, allowing data selected in one application to be selected in the other. In this way the user may analyse both the spatial and structural context of the data. 3D point data selected in Studio are immediately shown and analysed in the Stereonet Viewer. Likewise, poles selected in the Stereonet view are highlighted in Studio's Design Window. This unique ability to link spatial data with the Stereonet analysis, makes this the most powerful method available for analysing your structural data.

The Stereonet Viewer is suitable for analysing many different types of structural data including joints, bedding planes, fold axes, faults, veins and shears.

Applications:

• Open pit slope stability and structural analysis
• Underground stability analysis
• Paleocurrent analysis (Placer deposits)
• Exploration for structurally controlled ore deposits
• Identifying 'pay shoot' direction and plunges

Functions:

• Load joint surveys as X, Y, Z coordinates with dip and dip directions.
• Display poles on a stereonet projection with pole intensity and pole contours.
• Select poles spatially in Datamine Studio or on the stereonet and display selections in both views.
• Apply Wulff or Schmidt projection methods.
• Contour poles by Fisher or Schmidt methods.
• Apply the Terzaghi correction to biased surveys.
• Select poles by contour interval and display the average plane for any selected group of poles.
• Define design planes and display on the stereonet.
• Cones may be defined and projected on a stereonet as small circles with a radius representing an angle about a vector that passes through the origin. Any point on the small circle is a constant angle from the vector.
• A window in the context of a stereonet is a defined area of interest which may be identified with a particular type of risk such as toppling failure. Windows can be defined as the area (or envelope) contained between two dip direction angles and two dip angles.