the paper presents the case study of the current formation of a brazilian pit lake from an iron ore mining activity. the water used for the filling of the lake comes from rain, ground water and the complementary pumpage from a close river. at its final stage, which will be reached around year 2018, lake aguas claras will have a surface area of 0.67 km2 and the depth of 234 m, which will make it...

Based on the 2019 satellite remote sensing data, survey was conducted open-pit stopes of building sand mines in Shigatse, Tibet, and relationship between number area, population density district/county, as well distribution characteristics main built-up areas, administrative villages traffic roads at county level were analyzed. This study tentatively links open pit mine with human aggregation a...

Drawing on the theories of limit equilibrium and finite-element strength reduction, this paper explores instability modes stability change laws slope in zones E, W, S Jiajika spodumene mine, through rock mechanics tests, field survey, numerical simulation. The results show that sliding mode is circular arc or + plane sliding. Overall, final open-pit mine generally stable under current design, s...

Abstract Large-scale open-pit mining activities have profound impacts on the surrounding landscape and environment. At cessation of mining, rehabilitation large void spaces can be achieved by pit-lake filling, where water body provides a confining pressure mine surfaces, reducing both likelihood slope failure need for ongoing maintenance. Although pit-lakes present range long-term benefits, geo...

Mixed integer programming (MIP) models are used for long-term production scheduling of open pit mines. However, formulations based on binary variables for mining blocks require too many variables and are often difficult or impossible to solve. This paper presents and tests alternative MIP scheduling models that have reduced the number of binary variables and solution times, thus increasing effi...

One of the main concerns of the mining industry is to determine ultimate pit limits. Final pit is a collection of blocks, which can be removed with maximum profit while following restrictions on the slope of the mine’s walls. The size, location and final shape of an open-pit are very important in designing the location of waste dumps, stockpiles, processing plants, access roads and other surfac...

Due to uncertain nature of grade in ore deposits, considering uncertainty is inevitable in geological modelling of resources and mine planning. In other words, uncertainty in grade of mineralized materials, is one of the most significant parameters need attention in mine planning. In this paper, a comparative procedure utilizing Sequential Gaussian Simulation (SGS) and traditional Ordinary Krig...

Applications of operations research to mine planning date back to the 1960s. Since that time, optimization and simulation, in particular, have been applied to both surface and underground mine planning problems, including mine design, longand short-term production scheduling, equipment selection, and dispatching, inter alia. In this paper, we review several decades of such literature with a par...