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Investigating continuous time open pit dynamics

Askari-Nasab, H.; Frimpong, S.; Szymanski, J.;
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  • Published: 01 Feb 2008
  • Publisher: The Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Abstract
Current mine production planning, scheduling, and allocation of resources are based on mathematical programming models. In practice, the optimized solution cannot be attained without examining all possible combinations and permutations of the extraction sequence. Operations research methods have limited applications in large-scale surface mining operations because the number of variables becomes too large. The primary objective of this study is to develop and implement a hybrid simulation framework for the open pit scheduling problem. The paper investigates the dynamics of open pit geometry and the subsequent material movement as a continuous system described by...
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