Truck and shovel are the most common raw material transportation system used in the cement quarry operations. One of the major challenges associated with the cement quarry operations is the efficient allocation of truck and shovel to the mining faces. In order to minimize the truck and shovel operating cost, subject to quantity and quality constraints, the mixed integer linear programing (MILP)...

Truck and shovel operations comprise approximately 60% of the total operating costs in open pit mines. In order to increase productivity and reduce the cost of mining operations, it is essential to manage the equipment used with high efficiency. In this work, the chance-constrained goal programing (CCGP) model presented by Michalakopoulos and Panagiotou is developed to determine an optimal truc...

The US coal mining industry consumes approximately 142 billion kWh per year of energy. The US Department of Energy estimates that the industry‟s annual energy consumption can be reduced by 49% (24.6 billion kWh/year by using currently available best practices and a further 44.8 billion kWh/year with more research). This constitutes nearly $3.7 billion of potential savings on coal production cos...

Truck-Shovel fleet, as the most common transportation system in open-pit mines, has a significant part of mining costs, for which optimal management can lead to substantial cost reductions. Among the available dispatch mathematical models, the multi-stage approach is well suited for allocating trucks to respected shovels in a dynamic dispatching program. However, with this kind of modeling sequ...

Material excavation is the primary activity in surface mining operations; and shovel excavators are the primary production equipment in mining industry. The active population of cable shovels is about 2400 units around the world out of which 1700 are 20mt or larger capacity (http://parkerbaymining.com/mining-equipment/ electric-shovels.htm). Joy Global (P&H), Caterpillar (formerly under Bucyrus...

Electric cable shovel excavator is widely used in the surface mining operations of oil sand and other highly abrasive formations. The oil sands mines in Alberta use P&H 4100 C Boss shovel [1,2] for their loading operations. The lower works of this shovel consist of propel and crawler systems [3-7]. The crawler system consists of a crawler track assembly, front and rear idlers, lower rollers and...

Electric cable shovel excavator is widely used in the surface mining operations of oil sand and other highly abrasive formations. The oil sands mines in Alberta use P&H 4100 C Boss shovel [1,2] for their loading operations. The lower works of this shovel consist of propel and crawler systems [3-7]. The crawler system consists of a crawler track assembly, front and rear idlers, lower rollers and...

The deployment of large machinery for low cost, bulk surface mine production operations has resulted in High-Impact Shovel Loading Operations (HISLO). In extreme cases, shovels load large dump trucks with 100ton (or more) passes generating high-impact forces under gravity. HISLO generates high-frequency shockwaves that cause severe truck vibrations exposing operators to Whole Body Vibrations (W...