This review examines the current state-of-the-art in short-term planning for open-pit mines,
with a granularity that spans days, weeks or months, and a horizon of less than one to two …

Production planning and scheduling optimisation for underground mining operations has
continued to attract significant attention over the last decades. This has been necessitated …

Underground mining has historically occurred in surface and near-surface (shallow) mineral
deposits. While no universal definition of deep underground mining exists, humanity's need …

At the time of this writing, the US Geological Survey estimates that the average American-
born human will need millions of pounds of fuels, minerals, and other extracted resources in …

The mining industry continues to face the problem of depleting grades and the subsequent
significant variation in economic, environmental and technological characteristics have been …

Scheduling activities in an underground mine is a very complex task. Precedence relations,
the great number of resources and the large number of work sites are some of the reasons …

Manual short-term scheduling in underground mines is a time-consuming and error-prone
activity. In this work, we present a Constraint Programming approach capable of automating …

Stope layout designing and production scheduling are main phases to determine the
profitability of an underground mining project. These are mainly related to the output of one …

This paper presents an algorithm for optimizing the scheduling of trackless equipment in
underground mines. With the shortest working interval and maximum productivity as goals, a …

In the literature of mining optimisation, most classical mine block sequencing or open-pit
mine production scheduling problems are applied at strategic and tactical levels, because …