theoretical review of ‘mining pit lakes’ indicates that like natural lakes such lakes display a huge diversity. they are typically in a non-equilibrium state with respect to their surroundings. hence, at the decommissioning phase of mining operation a detailed technical study are required on different aspects of such created water bodies considering its morphometry, geology, hydrology, water qu...

Slope stability is a critical safety and production issue for mining. Major wall failure can occur seemingly without any visual warning, causing loss of lives, damage to equipment, and disruption to the mining process. Monitoring systems, ranging from simple piezometers and extensometers to highly sophisticated radars and global navigation satellite systems, are employed to predict impending in...

In coal mining industry, discrete-event simulation has been widely used to support decisions in material handling system (MHS) to achieve premiums on revenues. However, the conventional simulation modeling approach requires extensive expertise of simulation during the modeling phase and lacks flexibility when the MHS structure changes. In this paper, a data-driven modeling and simulation framew...

The shovel-truck system is commonly used in open-pit mining operations. Truck haulage cost constitutes about 26% of costs as the trucks are mostly powered by diesel whose escalating annually. Therefore, reducing fuel consumption could lead to a significant decrease overall costs. Various methods have been proposed improve efficiency mines. Case-based reasoning (CBR) can be estimate trucks. In t...

Planning and design procedure of an open pit mining project just can be started after ultimate pit determination. In the carried out study in this paper it was shown that the most important factor in ultimate pit determination and in consequence in the whole planning and design procedure of an open pit mine is the metal price. Metal price fluctuations in recent years were exaggerated and impose...

This article put augmented reality technology, and its application in the mining sector, in perspective. The current vitality in the mining sector in Canada, and particularly in the province of Quebec, is leading decision-makers to use new technologies in a sector which is nevertheless quite traditionalist. An exploration of the different activities connected to mining operations in order to id...

Despite drones being successfully utilized for monitoring and detecting hazards in mines, there is limited research on their application open-pit stockpile volumetric computation compared to traditional methods. Furthermore, time, cost, safety have challenged the use of approach. Present study aims fill gaps by conducting a comparative analysis utilizing drone A mapping framework proposed guide...