The open-pit mine production scheduling problem has received a great deal of attention in recent years, both in the academic literature, and in the mining industry. Optimization approaches to strategic planning for mine exploitation have become the industry standard, as the recent review of Newman et al. [19] highlights. However most of these approaches focus on extraction sequencing, and don’t...

one of the most important steps involved in mining operations is to select an appropriate extraction method for mine resources. after choosing the extraction method, it is usually impossible to replace it with another one because it may be so expensive that implementation of the entire project could be economically impossible. choosing a mining method depends on the geological and geometrical c...

Noise emissions are a significant environmental impact caused by the mining industry in all technological phases of surface mining, mineral processing, and waste disposal. This paper presents role noise assessment control large-scale operations. Mine planning develops model operations, ore excavation, dumping scheduling processing rates, including spatial distribution activities. Such level min...

The layout of the dewatering system in open-cast mining must be adapted to assumptions and size expected inflows, which, turn, depend on natural conditions operation other mines groundwater intakes, affecting arrangement hydrodynamic field. This case study analyses possible solutions related a change drainage system: decommissioning by flooding depleted deposit new one located vicinity. As part...