Conventional open pit mine optimization models for designing mining phases and ultimate pit limit do not consider expected variations and uncertainty in metal content available in a mineral deposit (supply) and commodity prices (market demand). Unlike the conventional approach, a stochastic framework relies on multiple realizations of the input data so as to account for uncertainty in metal con...

The open-pit mining problem is to determine the contours of a mine, based on economic data and engineering feasibility requirements in order to yield maximumpossible net income. This practical problem needs to be solved for very large data sets. In practice, moreover, it is necessary to test multiple scenarios taking into account a variety of realizations of geological predictions and forecasts...

The Springdale Pit, a former surface mine in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, is used to store coal combustion waste produced by power plants in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. When states rule that minefilling is a " beneficial use " of CCW, it is exempt from environmental safeguards that would be applied to disposal sites.

We present an integer programming formulation for the open pit mine production scheduling problem. We strengthen this formulation by adding inequalities derived by combining the precedence and production constraints. The addition of these inequalities decreases the computational requirements to obtain the optimal integer solution, in many cases by a significant margin. & 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All ...

In order to reduce the large rocks produced by blasting of hillside open-pit mine with heterogeneous and complex rock mass in arid area, based on lithology characteristics Dabancheng Limestone Hillside Open-pit Mine Hongshun, Xinjiang, key technology for homogeneous is proposed this paper. We can conclude from experiment that (1) it preferable have a detonation network realizes multi-stage mill...

We present a methodology for long-term mine planning based on a general capacitated multicommodity network flow formulation. It considers underground and open-pit ore deposits sharing multiple downstream processing plants over a long horizon. The purpose of the model is to optimize several mines in an integrated fashion, but real size instances are hard to solve due to the combinatorial nature ...

A vehicle proximity warning collision avoidance system is being developed using GPS and wireless local area networks to improve safety of off-highway trucks in open pit mines. After two an a half years of research, software development, and laboratory testing, field tests were carried out at operating limestone quarries and open pit mining operations to evaluate GPS accuracy and overall system ...

21 kilometres north of Stewart (Figure 2-IZ-l), on the east The Silbak Premier mine is in northwest British Columbia, side of the Salmon River Valley. The original discovery of a that from 1918 to 1953 produced 4.3 million tonnes of ore high-grade vein in 1910 culminated in an underground mine grading 14.6 grams gold and 304 grams silver per tonne from sulphide-bearing stockworkveins and brecci...

Constructing ponds to protect downstream ecosystems is a common practice in opencast coal mine reclamation. As these ponds remain integrated in the landscape, it is important to evaluate the extent of the effect of mine pollution on these ecosystems. However, this point has not been sufficiently addressed in the literature. The main objective of this work was to explore the metal pollution in m...

Open-pit mining is one of the main exploiting methods for solid mineral resources. After more than 100 years high-intensity development, there are a large number abandoned open-pit mines and related relics in world. The reconstruction Pumped Hydraulic Energy Storage systems (PHES) from an effective utilization mode underground space recent years. project planning PHES should consider not only t...