Abstract
Mine Facility Location Selection (MFLS) is one of the most common encountered problems associated with sustainable development in open pit mine planning and design. This paper addresses a multistep-procedure to be applied for MFLS. In the first step, the potential areas for the mine facilities are identified through a preliminary screening process with application of the geographical information system (GIS). In the second step, number of discrete alternatives are identified (three to five sites). In the third step, environmental impacts of each location for each facility are assessed by determining the effect of comprehensive set of impacting factors on various environmental components. This environmental impact assessment (EIA) results in finding a suitable location for establishing a mine facility. This approach was applied to Sungun copper open-pit mine of Iran to select tailing pond location and the results show that the differnce between the efficiency of imaginary ideal case study and the most suitable location for establishing tailing dam in Sungun copper mine is 77.3 percent. This means that the selected location does not guarantee that all potential hazards can be avoided and some remedial measures must be taken for the affected environment.
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