Transportation costs are a significant part of capital and operating costs of large open pit mines. Cost efficiency and high reliability of in pit crushing and conveying systems compared to conventional truck-shovel system makes it more appealing to be utilized in modern mining activities. In this paper the suitable location of an in pit crusher is investigated as a single hub location problem....

With a growing volume of biomedical databases and repositories, the need to develop a set of tools to address their analysis and support knowledge discovery is becoming acute. The data mining community has developed a substantial set of techniques for computational treatment of these data. In this article, we discuss the evolution of open-source toolboxes that data mining researchers and enthus...

Introduction. High productivity in mining processes is possible only with sufficient consistency between processes: drilling – blasting excavation transportation. The relationships and are most well studied, although there also a number of issues related to the interpretation data choice efficiency criteria. further link by transportation incomplete, therefore, no clear direction systematic coo...

In this paper we consider the problem of the incremental mining of sequential patterns when new transactions or new customers are added to an original database. We present a new algorithm for mining frequent sequences that uses information collected during an earlier mining process to cut down the cost of finding new sequential patterns in the updated database. Our test shows that the algorithm...

Data Mining is the process of analyzing data from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful information. It can be defined as the activity that extracts information contained in very large database. That information can be used to increase the revenue or cut costs. Association Rule Mining (ARM) is finding out the frequent itemsets or patterns among the existing items from the given ...

This research project developed an adaptive stochastic optimisation approach for multi-period production scheduling in open-pit mines under geological uncertainty, and compared it to existing two-stage method. new rolling-horizon updates the model each time period as information becomes available. Numerical tests carried out earlier on open-pits of different sizes showed that, average, policy g...