One of the most important issues in all stages of mining study is capital cost estimation. Determination of capital expenditure is a challenging issue for mine designers. In recent decade, quite a few number of studies have focused on proposing estimation models to predict mining capital cost. However, these efforts have not achieved to a predictor model with reliable range of error. Both of ov...

Lakes commonly form in mine pits following the end of mining. A good understanding pit lake water balance over future decades to centuries is essential understand and manage environmental risks from lake. Evaporation often major or only outflow lake, thus being an important determinant equilibrium level risks. general lack situ measurements evaporation has meant that estimates have usually been...

The forecasting slope deformation potential is required to evaluate slope safety during open-pit mining, allowing us to formulate and promote effective emergency strategies in advance to prevent slope failure disasters. Although fractal models have been used to predict slope deformation, such limitations as low prediction accuracy, poor stability and the requirement for large amounts of data mu...

The groundwater inflow into a mine during its life and after ceasing operations is one of the most important concerns of the mining industry. This paper presents a hydrogeological assessment of the Irankuh Zn-Pb mine at 20 km south of Esfahan and 1 km northeast of Abnil in west-Central Iran. During mine excavation, the upper impervious bed of a confined aquifer was broken and water at high-pres...

Recent changes in the fossil-fuel energy sector require coal mining industries to plan for future, including developing procedures decommissioning and closure associated with mines. In surface mining, geotechnical issues of include long-term stability pit slopes, particularly as is gradually filled water. This paper investigates such slope issues, emphasis on conditions prevailing Amyntaion lig...

This document presents material supplementary to our companion paper A Decomposition-Based Heuristic for Collaborative Scheduling in a Network of Open-Pit Mines. In this companion paper, we consider the short-term production scheduling problem for a network of multiple open-pit mines and ports. Ore produced at each mine is transported by rail to a set of ports and blended into signature product...

Sulfate-reducing bioreactors are a promising option for the treatment of acid mine drainage. We studied the structure and function of a biofilm in a methanol-fed fixed-bed in-lake reactor for the treatment of an acidic pit lake by a combination of laboratory incubations, chemical and molecular analyses and confocal laser scanning microscopy to determine whether competition by different groups o...