Author : Akshay A Chowdu
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Book Synopsis Operations Research Applications in Underground Mine Production Scheduling by : Akshay A Chowdu
Download or read book Operations Research Applications in Underground Mine Production Scheduling written by Akshay A Chowdu and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mine planning is a multi-disciplinary process that guides decision-making at all stages of the mining operation. Owing to inherent uncertainty, the planning process relies on engineering estimates and is iterative in nature. Mining operations utilize a variety of operations research-based applications to improve decision-making capabilities across all levels of planning. The intent of this work is to review past applications in the field of underground metalliferrous mine planning, modify existing optimization procedures to create more realistic long-term production schedules, and propose a new mathematical formulation for optimizing short-term schedules. In the past decade, better solution algorithms, improvedmodeling techniques, and availability of cheap computational power have driven greater research interest in the area of long-term decision-making analysis regarding underground mining method selection, cutoff grade, mine layout, open pit-underground transition, and equipment selection. Production schedule optimization has also seen significant advances with a number of researchers utilizing a Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem-based approach to create long-term schedules.