A classical problem in the mining industry for open-pit mines involves scheduling the
production of notional three-dimensional production blocks, each containing a …

Global optimization for mining complexes aims to generate a production schedule for the
various mines and processing streams that maximizes the economic value of the enterprise …

Recent developments in modelling and optimization approaches for the production of
mineral and energy resources have resulted in new simultaneous stochastic optimization …

Given a discretized representation of an ore body known as a block model, the open pit
mining production scheduling problem that we consider consists of defining which blocks to …

In a global environment where energy and labor are becoming increasingly expensive,
continuous mining systems such as In-Pit Crushing and Conveying (IPCC) systems have …

In order to establish a production plan, an open-pit mine is partitioned into a three-
dimensional array of blocks. The order in which blocks are extracted and processed has a …

The open pit mine production scheduling problem determines a sequence of three-
dimensional, notional block extraction that maximises net present value (NPV) of future cash …

A hybrid model predictive control formulation with continuous and discrete variables that
models multiple crushed-ore stockpiles per conveyor-belt is proposed for better conveying …

A recursive time aggregation-disaggregation (RAD) heuristic is proposed to solve large-
scale multidimensional and multiperiod precedence-constrained knapsack problems …

The life-of-mine optimization of open pit mine production scheduling under geological
uncertainty is a computationally intensive process. Production scheduling determines the …