The mining industry, critical for global resource supply, has historically been linked to
significant environmental degradation and social challenges, including habitat disruption …

Ever-growing needs in pipeline welding relating to quality, frequent usage of advanced, heat-
sensitive, and corrosion-resistant materials alongside high production costs encourage the …

Abstract In an Open-Pit Production Scheduling (OPPS) problem, the aim is to determine the
mining sequence of an orebody as a block model. In common research methods for …

Production scheduling plays a pivotal role in successfully executing any open-pit mining
operation. It defines the most profitable extraction sequence of mineralized material from the …

The strategic planning of open pit operations defines the best strategy for extraction of the
mineral deposit to maximize the net present value. The process of strategic planning must …

Mineral and metallurgical processing are crucial within the mineral value chain. These
processes involve several stages wherein comminution is arguably the most important due …

A dynamic optimization method was created to address the production schedule issue in an
open-pit coal mine while taking into account the characteristics of the fuzzy structured …

Stope layout optimization is an important feature of underground mining that maximizes the
economic value of the project while taking mining limits into account. The large number of …

This research presents a new Simulated Annealing based stochastic optimisation algorithm
to integrate geological uncertainty into the optimization process through multiple …

In the context of open pit mining operations, long-term production scheduling faces
significant challenges due to inherent uncertainties, particularly in commodity prices …