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Advances in Applied Strategic Mine Planning

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  • © 2018

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Editors:
  1. Roussos Dimitrakopoulos

    1. COSMO—Stochastic Mine Planning Laboratory, Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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  • Addresses core aspects of the sustainable, responsible, and optimal development and utilization of Earth’s mineral resources

  • Presents both state-of-the art methods and major applications in the global mineral resources industry

  • Includes contributions from international experts in the field

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Table of contents (45 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Early Concerns and Innovative Responses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Beyond Naïve Optimisation

      • P. H. L. Monkhouse, G. A. Yeates
      Pages 3-18

    3. Optimal Mining Principles

      • Brett King
      Pages 19-30

    4. The Global Optimiser Works—What Next?

      • J. Whittle
      Pages 31-37

    5. Blasor—Blended Iron Ore Mine Planning Optimisation at Yandi, Western Australia

      • P. Stone, G. Froyland, M. Menabde, B. Law, R. Pasyar, P. H. L. Monkhouse
      Pages 39-46

    6. Roadblocks to the Evaluation of Ore Reserves—The Simulation Overpass and Putting More Geology into Numerical Models of Deposits

      • A. G. Journel
      Pages 47-55

    7. Quantification of Risk Using Simulation of the Chain of Mining—Case Study at Escondida Copper, Chile

      • S. Khosrowshahi, W. J. Shaw, G. A. Yeates
      Pages 57-74

    8. A Risk Analysis Based Framework for Strategic Mine Planning and Design—Method and Application

      • M. Godoy
      Pages 75-90

    9. Mining Schedule Optimisation for Conditionally Simulated Orebodies

      • M. Menabde, G. Froyland, P. Stone, G. A. Yeates
      Pages 91-100

    10. Stochastic Mine Planning—Methods, Examples and Value in an Uncertain World

      • R. Dimitrakopoulos
      Pages 101-115

  3. Increasing Value and Technical Risk Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. The Value of Additional Drilling to Open Pit Mining Projects

      • G. Froyland, M. Menabde, P. Stone, D. Hodson
      Pages 119-138

    3. Stochastic Optimisation of Long-Term Production Scheduling for Open Pit Mines with a New Integer Programming Formulation

      • S. Ramazan, R. Dimitrakopoulos
      Pages 139-153

    4. Stochastic Long-Term Production Scheduling of Iron Ore Deposits: Integrating Joint Multi-element Geological Uncertainty and Ore Quality Control

      • J. Benndorf, R. Dimitrakopoulos
      Pages 155-172

    5. Stochastic Mine Planning—Example and Value from Integrating Long- and Short-Term Mine Planning Through Simulated Grade Control, Sunrise Dam, Western Australia

      • A. Jewbali, R. Dimitrakopoulos
      Pages 173-189

    6. A New Methodology for Flexible Mine Design

      • B. Groeneveld, E. Topal, B. Leenders
      Pages 191-216

    7. Direct Net Present Value Open Pit Optimisation with Probabilistic Models

      • A. Richmond
      Pages 217-228

  4. Simultaneous Optimisation of Multiple Operations and Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
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    2. Simultaneously Optimizing Open-Pit and Underground Mining Operations Under Geological Uncertainty

      • L. Montiel, R. Dimitrakopoulos, K. Kawahata
      Pages 231-250
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This book presents a collection of papers on topics in the field of strategic mine planning, including orebody modeling, mine-planning optimization and the optimization of mining complexes. Elaborating on the state of the art in the field, it describes the latest technologies and related research as well as the applications of a range of related technologies in diverse industrial contexts.

Editors and Affiliations

  • COSMO—Stochastic Mine Planning Laboratory, Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Roussos Dimitrakopoulos

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