Retic Router is our vision for backfill system design, developed from the ground up with your mine's spatial data, backfill properties, and cost considerations at its core. Retic Router automates the development of a hydraulically feasible and optimised branched network. This is about delivering reticulation networks that not only service all your stopes efficiently but do so at the lowest possible unit cost, balancing capital and operational expenses like never before.

Stages of Design

• Import your entire mine design, extracting spatial data to determine possible routing pathways.
• Analyse stope solids to determine volumes and filling locations for your stopes.
• Automatically develope a branched network from every stope to the backfill plant, running multiple scenarios to optimise pressure, flow rates, and costs (piping and binder).
• Run dynamic hydraulic tests under variable process conditions to evaluate system reliability.
• Generate a report with design recommendations or a full system design based on your requirements.

Retic.App is a centralised platform for managing and optimising backfill operations. It provides easy access to essential data and tools to streamline your workflow, from scheduling to monitoring and analysis, helping you make informed decisions and improve operational efficiency.

• Crush Log
  Secure cloud-based database for your paste QAQC with inbuilt data validation and automatic linking to stopes, confidently track your paste performance across all your stopes.
• Stope Fill
  Analysis your stope design or CMS files, customise your backfill design for your requirements, develop composite pour plans, optimise binder usage.
• Paste Planner
  Plan and schedule filling activities with ease with an interactive Gantt chart, linking stope designs you can develop a filling schedule to achievable utilisation targets.
• Dashboard
  Monitor and review your backfilling operations with key performance metrics including: planned and achieved utilisation, and relative paste performance versus any process parameter you choose to track.

Our approach to backfill design and material testing starts with understanding your process variability. We conduct a focused and efficiently mapped testing campaign to understand how each process parameter influences your backfill's performance. By mapping your material to a multivariate probability density function, we capture the full spectrum of strength and rheological properties across your operation's complete range of conditions.

We offer several solutions, unconstrained by accurate survey data, that automate the detection of slack flow by utilising the pressure sensor data directly within the SCADA system. These solutions are bespoke for each mine and are encoded within the system to provide clear binary alerts to operators to indicate Slack Flow occurrence.

A free backfill analysis and pour design tool developed by Retic Systems. Stope Fill makes backfill design simple and allows you to take control of your backfill. Its lightweight 3D environment allows you to quickly visualise and adjust designs, seamlessly generate composite pour plans, and optimise your binder usage. Stope Fill has now been integrated into Retic App, but a desktop version can also be downloaded here: StopeFill 1.2.