Integration of sustainable development concepts in open pit mine design

Adibi, Nabiollah; Ataee-pour, Majid; Rahmanpour, Mehdi

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.07.150

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“…The first category includes the design and evaluation of mining (Odell, 2004). In the second category, the progress of research in determining the ultimate mine layout in terms of sustainable development criteria has been studied (Craynon et al, 2012;Xu et al, 2014;Adibi et al, 2015). A review of studies on sustainable development in mining may be found in (Asr et al, 2019;Gorman & Dzombak, 2018).…”

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Determination of Underground Mineable Reserve with Regard to Metal Price Uncertainty and Sustainable Development

Narrei

Ataee-pour

2021

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Mineable reserve determination is one of the important parameters in economic profitability and the safety of underground mining production. The fluctuations in the metal prices will lead to a change in the cut-off grade, and as a result, the mine layout and mineable reserve will change. On the other hand, changing the underground mine layouts will also change the economic, social and environmental impacts (sustainable development parameters). Therefore, ignoring metal price uncertainty lead to a non-optimal design. The aim of this paper is the determination of underground mineable reserve regarding metal price uncertainty and sustainable development. Metal price uncertainty is simulated with Monte Carlo technique and the most important sustainable development indicators are entered in the cut-off grade formula. In this way, four types of cut-off grades were defined. Based on these cut-offs four types of mine layouts are obtained. Basic, simulated, green and sustainable mine layout. Basic Mine layout is that obtained by normal design, simulated mine layout considers just metal price uncertainty, green mine layout considers metal price uncertainty and environmental criteria and sustainable mine layout considers metal price uncertainty and environmental and social criteria. Results from the use of this methodology in a hypothetical gold mine show that the mineable reserve in sustainable mine layout is 17 percent greater than the basic mine layout. Regarding the result, with this methodology in addition to consideration of metal price uncertainty and sustainable development criteria, the more mineable reserve will be achieved. For future research, in addition to using other price simulation methods; it is suggested that other indicators of sustainable development be included in determining the underground mine layout.

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Determination of Underground Mineable Reserve with Regard to Metal Price Uncertainty and Sustainable Development

Narrei

Ataee-pour

2021

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“…Развитие общества в новое время делает приоритетной проблему урбанизации горных территорий, что способствует улучшению жизнеобеспечения их населения [2,10,12,15].…”

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Economic concept of architectural support of construction of mountain objects

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Козырев²,

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The article is devoted to the economic aspect of the architectural support of the development of the mountainous areas of the South of Russia. The effectiveness of the development of territories in mountainous terrain depends on the success of combining the principles of designing objects and the state of the environment, especially in the conditions of unique for recreational opportunities depressed regions, for example, the territory “Tagauria” (North Ossetia – Alania), which can become an object of international tourism. The success of the development of mountain areas for industrial and agricultural production is determined by industrial investment projects. The urgency of the task of forming the natural and technogenic risk of mountain areas and solving urban planning tasks based on comprehensive research, one of the criteria of which is the economic efficiency of the object being created, is shown. The mechanism of influence of innovative technologies developed at mining enterprises on the economics of the use of terrestrial resources is formulated. A model is formulated for determining the ecological and economic effect of developing a mountainous area by integrating both aspects. An indicator of the ecological and economic efficiency of the development of a mountain area is given The necessity of introducing into the practice of calculating the effectiveness of architectural support objective criteria is shown. It is shown that the ecological and economic efficiency of the development of territories depends on the integration of innovative methods with traditional methods.

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“…An external performance appraisal of China’s energy regulation is a multi-attribute decision making problem and there are numerous multi-attribute decision making methods [ 13 , 14 ]. Therein, the TOPSIS method is widely used in various fields such as the economy [ 15 , 16 , 17 ] and management [ 18 , 19 , 20 ] due to its characteristics including its simple principle, intuitive geometric interpretation, and the fact that it has no special requirements for sample data. As a multi-attribute decision making method, TOPSIS was first proposed by Hwang and Yoon in 1981, and improved and expanded by Zavadskas et al and Triantaphyllou [ 21 , 22 , 23 ].…”

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The External Performance Appraisal of China Energy Regulation: An Empirical Study Using a TOPSIS Method Based on Entropy Weight and Mahalanobis Distance

Wang

Zheng

2018

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In China’s industrialization process, the effective regulation of energy and environment can promote the positive externality of energy consumption while reducing negative externality, which is an important means for realizing the sustainable development of an economic society. The study puts forward an improved technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution based on entropy weight and Mahalanobis distance (briefly referred as E-M-TOPSIS). The performance of the approach was verified to be satisfactory. By separately using traditional and improved TOPSIS methods, the study carried out the empirical appraisals on the external performance of China’s energy regulation during 1999~2015. The results show that the correlation between the performance indexes causes the significant difference between the appraisal results of E-M-TOPSIS and traditional TOPSIS. The E-M-TOPSIS takes the correlation between indexes into account and generally softens the closeness degree compared with traditional TOPSIS. Moreover, it makes the relative closeness degree fluctuate within a small-amplitude. The results conform to the practical condition of China’s energy regulation and therefore the E-M-TOPSIS is favorably applicable for the external performance appraisal of energy regulation. Additionally, the external economic performance and social responsibility performance (including environmental and energy safety performances) based on the E-M-TOPSIS exhibit significantly different fluctuation trends. The external economic performance dramatically fluctuates with a larger fluctuation amplitude, while the social responsibility performance exhibits a relatively stable interval fluctuation. This indicates that compared to the social responsibility performance, the fluctuation of external economic performance is more sensitive to energy regulation.

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Integration of sustainable development concepts in open pit mine design

Cited by 41 publications

References 21 publications

Determination of Underground Mineable Reserve with Regard to Metal Price Uncertainty and Sustainable Development

Determination of Underground Mineable Reserve with Regard to Metal Price Uncertainty and Sustainable Development

Economic concept of architectural support of construction of mountain objects

The External Performance Appraisal of China Energy Regulation: An Empirical Study Using a TOPSIS Method Based on Entropy Weight and Mahalanobis Distance

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