Implementing a New Heuristic Approach to the Underground Mine Stope Layout Problem

Underground mine planning requires an optimal stope layout as a prerequisite for the definition of an optimal production schedule. The procedure to generate an optimal stope layout considers an orebody model and economic parameters as inputs. Itevaluates all possible combinations of mining blocks an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sandanayake, D., Topal, Erkan, Asad, Mohammad Waqar
Other Authors: R. Dimitrakopoulos
Format: Conference Paper
Published: The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/33099