Abstract The Powder River Basin, located in Wyoming and Montana, provides more than
41% of coal mined in the United States. The coal produced by the 15 mines in the basin is …

The mine planning process requires optimization of production scheduling for the deposit
being mined, so as to guaranty the best net present value in the evaluation of an open pit …

Underground production scheduling has traditionally been a time-consuming, manual task
in which the goal is to achieve corporate-or operation-defined production targets. This …

Underground mines are the source of 33% of US coal production and 60% of worldwide
coal production. Room-and-pillar mining with continuous miners has been the most common …

Area mining is a surface mining method that allows for efficient mining and
contemporaneous reclamation of tabular or bedded deposits, eg, coal. Mine planning …

There is need for greater collaboration across the disciplines of mining, geology, operations
research, statistics, and computer science to improve underground mine planning. Active …

Short-term mine production schedules aim to meet goals previously defined by the long-term
mine production schedule. Unfortunately, the complexity and uncertainty of a mine operation …

Mine production scheduling consists of defining the extraction sequence and process
allocation of mineralized material over some length of time. These decisions can be made at …

Traditionally, mining engineers plan an open pit mine considering pre-established
conditions of operation of the plant (s) derived from a previous plant optimization. By …

A hierarchical open-pit mine production scheduling approach linking the optimal strategic
open pit mine plan to the optimal medium-term production schedule is presented. The main …