A Review of Operations Research in Mine Planning

Abstract

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, long-and short-term production scheduling, equipment selection, and dispatching, inter alia. In this paper, we review several decades of such literature with a particular emphasis on more recent work, suggestions for emerging areas, and highlights of successful industry applications.

A variable neighbourhood descent algorithm for the open-pit mine production scheduling problem with metal uncertainty

“…Indeed, the MPSP has been frequently studied since the 1960s (Newman et al, 2010). Different methods have been applied to solve the deterministic version of the problem, which assumes that all the problem parameters are well known.…”

Logistic Principles Application for Managing the Extraction and Transportation of Solid Minerals

“…To achieve this, must reduce all logistics costs in the chain «producer-consumer» due to the review of the production, transport and storage processes consistency in the field of mining solid minerals [10][11][12].…”

A Collaborative Planning Model to Coordinate Mining and Smelting Furnace

“…The most studied problems are the extraction problems. In the literature [6], it is noted that, due to the nature of the extracted material, a differentiation is made between the problems. Indeed, these different kinds of material have different characteristics depending upon different extraction processes.…”

“…In this paper we are interested on the metallic ore. The principal problems of the extraction models which aim to determine the ultimate open pit limit [8], [9], [10] and the determination of the sequence of extracted bloc [11], [12], [13] (see [6] for a revue) are well studied. [14], [15] propose a global optimization model (extraction and process).…”

“…The principal problems studied are the extraction models: determination of the ultimate open pit limit and the determination of the sequence of extracted bloc (see [6] for a recent revue). [14], [15] propose a global optimization model (extraction and process).…”