The Open Pit Mine Production Scheduling Problem (OPMPSP) studied in recent years is usually based on a single geological estimate of material to be excavated and processed over a number of decades. However techniques have now been developed to generate multiple stochastic geological estimates that more accurately describe the uncertain geology. While some attempts have been made to use such mul...

Given a discretisation of an orebody as a block model, the open pit mining production scheduling problem (OPMPSP) consists of finding the sequence in which the blocks should be removed from the pit, over the lifetime of the mine, such that the net present value (NPV) of the operation is maximised. In practice, due to the large number of blocks and precedence constraints linking them, blocks are...

During its 25 years of production from 1972 to 1998, the Gibraltar Cu-Mo mine in east-central British Columbia (Figure 1) milled a total of 324 million tons of ore containing an average 0.351% Cu from four open pits. Fieldwork during 2000 involved just over two weeks of detailed pit mapping at the mine. Results of this work and several earlier intervals of pit mapping conducted in 1998 and 1999...

In-pit crushing and conveying (IPCC) systems have drawn attention to the modern mining industry due numerous benefits than conventional truck-and-shovel systems. However, implementation of IPCC system can reduce flexibility introduce additional sequence requirements. This paper investigates long-term production scheduling crusher relocation plan open-pit mines using a semi-mobile high-angle con...

In order to solve the problems of a slow solving speed and easily falling into local optimization an ore-blending process model (of polymetallic multiobjective open-pit mines), efficient scheduling method based on multiagent deep reinforcement learning is proposed. Firstly, according actual production situation mine, optimal control for ore blending was established with goal minimizing deviatio...

Based on current researches and developments of open-pit mine slope in China, the engineering features of open-pit mine slopes are summarized. Mine slope is basically formed by dynamic excavation of multi-level and multi-type, and mining benefit is the purpose of mine slope engineering when using various schemes and/or methods. Thus, the issues of design and stability analyses are the main conc...

A large number of metal deposits are initially extracted via surface methods, but then transition underground without necessarily ceasing to operate above ground. Currently, most mine operators schedule the open pit and underground operations independently and then merge the two, creating a myopic solution. We present a methodology to maximize the NPV for an entire metal deposit by determining ...

One of the key issues in mining is the hauling system. Truck and shovels are the most widely used transportation equipment in mines. In this paper, a two-phase simulation-based optimization is presented to maximize utilization of hauling system in the largest Iranian open-pit copper mine. In the first phase, The OptQuest for Arena software package was used to solve the optimization problem to p...

While the increased automation levels of production and operation equipment have led to improved productivity mining activity in open pit mines, capacity mine transport system has become a bottleneck. The optimisation is great practical significance reduce cost improve organizational efficiency mines. In this paper, we first formulate multiobjective problem for railway scheduling by introducing...