APPLICATION OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH IN OPEN PIT MINE PLANNING AND A CASE STUDY IN SINQUYEN COPPER DEPOSIT, VIETNAM

N L Mai,O Erten,E Topal

doi:10.17073/2500-0632-2016-3-22-27

Abstract

Operations research has been applied to open pit mine planning since 1960s. This approach has proved its ability in optimising mine planning problems, including long-term and shortterm production scheduling, ultimate pit limit, mine design and mining equipment dispatching. In this paper, we review the history and methodology of applying operations research in long-term production scheduling and a case study in Sin Quyen copper deposit, Vietnam.

Highlights

Strategic mine planning is a key to the success of mining projects and its critical task is to determine an optimal and practical mining schedule over the life of mine, or long-term production scheduling
Operations research has been applied to open pit mine planning since 1960s
TopCone Algorithm (TCA) is implemented on the resource block model to cluster blocks into TCs to significantly reduce the scale of data to facilitate the performance of the downstream integer programming (IP)-based production scheduling model

Summary

РАЗРАБОТКА МЕСТОРОЖДЕНИЙ ПОЛЕЗНЫХ ИСКОПАЕМЫХ

MAI NGOC LUAN (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) TOPAL ERKAN (Curtin University of Technology, Australia ) ERTEN OKTAY (Curtin University of Technology, Australia). APPLICATION OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH IN OPEN PIT MINE PLANNING AND A CASE STUDY IN SINQUYEN COPPER DEPOSIT, VIETNAM. Operations research has been applied to open pit mine planning since 1960s. This approach has proved its ability in optimising mine planning problems, including long-term and short-term production scheduling, ultimate pit limit, mine design and mining equipment dispatching. We review the history and methodology of applying operations research in long-term production scheduling and a case study in Sin Quyen copper deposit, Vietnam. Ключевые слова: Operations Research; Mine Planning; Production Scheduling; Sin Quyen copper deposit; Optimisation

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