Using Clustering Methods for Open Pit Mine Production Scheduling

Typical mine planning process includes creating a mining block model, applying the ultimate pit limit analysis and creating mining cuts for production scheduling. Mixed integer linear programming (MILP) has been used extensively for optimal mine production scheduling of open pit mines. One main obst...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ren, H., Topal, Erkan
Other Authors: Paul Hagan
Format: Journal Article
Published: The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34260