Many coal mines are being abandoned for economic and environmental reasons in China. The repurposing of open-pit into pumped storage hydropower (PSH) can help with the renewable energy, improve mine environments, provide added value. Construction PSH plant will change water level pit, which is envisaged as lower reservoir, thus influencing slope stability. In this study, Fushun West Open-Pit wa...

Similar to the mixed-integer programming library (MIPLIB), we present a library of publicly available test problem instances for three classical types of open pit mining problems: the ultimate pit limit problem and two variants of open pit production scheduling problems. The ultimate pit limit problem determines a set of notional three-dimensional blocks containing ore and/or waste material to ...

Dynamic slope stability in open-pit mines still remains a challenging task in the computational mining design. Earthquake and blasting are two significant sources of dynamic loads that can cause many damages to open-pit mines in active seismic areas and during exploitation cycles. In this work, the effects of earthquake and blasting on the stability of the NW slope of Chadormalu mine are compar...

To achieve a successful and effective operation, the transition from open pit to underground mining requires accurate planning analysis. Numerical modeling utilizing programs like FLAC3D has been an important tool for simulating analyzing complicated geomechanical behavior connected with this shift in recent years. The use of develop model switch coal soft rocks using room pillar method is expl...

INTRODUCTION This study focused on using analytical and numerical models to develop and manage groundwater resources, and predict the effects of management measurements in the groundwater system. Movement of contaminants can be studied based on groundwater flow characteristics. This study can be used for prediction of ion concentration and evaluation of groundwater pollution as the theoretical ...

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...

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...

Abstract Backbreak (BB) is one of the serious adverse blasting consequences in open-pit mines, because it frequently reduces economic benefits and seriously affects safety mines. Therefore, rapid accurate prediction BB great significance to mine design other production activities. For this purpose, six different swarm intelligence optimization (SIO) algorithms were proposed optimize extreme lea...