Determining the mining sequence is one of the main objectives in mine planning. However,
depending on the size of the analyzed instances, such activity might become an extremely …

Clustering approaches are widely used to group similar objects and facilitate problem
analysis and decision-making in many fields. During short-term planning of open-pit mines …

One of the main obstacles in using exact optimisation methods for open pit production
scheduling is the size of real mining problems, which forms an intractable optimisation …

Mathematical programming has been applied to optimizing open pit mine planning
problems since the early 1960s. Nonetheless, it still remains challenging to obtain a life-of …

The open-pit production planning is one of the most important steps of mine design which
becomes a hard and challenging optimization problem in large-scale mineral deposits. A …

Since the open-pit precedence-constrained production scheduling problem is an NP-hard
problem, solving it is always a challenging task, especially from a long-term perspective …

Open pit mine plans define the complex strategy of displacement of ore and waste over the
mine life. Various mixed integer linear programming (MILP) formulations have been used for …

This work presents a novel approach to solve the mining cut definition problem with
geometallurgical interactions in short-term mine planning for open-pit operations. Mining cut …

Planning block-caving operations poses complexities in different areas such as safety,
environment, ground control and production scheduling. The objective of this paper is to …

Long-term planning is one of the most important stages that determines the distribution of
cash flows over the mine life and the feasibility of the project. However, it is not feasible in …