Advances in Applied Strategic Mine Planning

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 Beyond Naïve Optimisation
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   Chapter 2 Optimal Mining Principles
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   Chapter 3 The Global Optimiser Works—What Next?
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   Chapter 4 Blasor—Blended Iron Ore Mine Planning Optimisation at Yandi, Western Australia
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   Chapter 5 Roadblocks to the Evaluation of Ore Reserves—The Simulation Overpass and Putting More Geology into Numerical Models of Deposits
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   Chapter 6 Quantification of Risk Using Simulation of the Chain of Mining—Case Study at Escondida Copper, Chile
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   Chapter 7 A Risk Analysis Based Framework for Strategic Mine Planning and Design—Method and Application
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   Chapter 8 Mining Schedule Optimisation for Conditionally Simulated Orebodies
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    Chapter 9 Stochastic Mine Planning—Methods, Examples and Value in an Uncertain World
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    Chapter 10 The Value of Additional Drilling to Open Pit Mining Projects
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    Chapter 11 Stochastic Optimisation of Long-Term Production Scheduling for Open Pit Mines with a New Integer Programming Formulation
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    Chapter 12 Stochastic Long-Term Production Scheduling of Iron Ore Deposits: Integrating Joint Multi-element Geological Uncertainty and Ore Quality Control
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    Chapter 13 Stochastic Mine Planning—Example and Value from Integrating Long- and Short-Term Mine Planning Through Simulated Grade Control, Sunrise Dam, Western Australia
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    Chapter 14 A New Methodology for Flexible Mine Design
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    Chapter 15 Direct Net Present Value Open Pit Optimisation with Probabilistic Models
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    Chapter 16 Simultaneously Optimizing Open-Pit and Underground Mining Operations Under Geological Uncertainty
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    Chapter 17 Combining Optimisation and Simulation to Model a Supply Chain from Pit to Port
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    Chapter 18 Network Linear Programming Optimisation of an Integrated Mining and Metallurgical Complex
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    Chapter 19 Open Pit Transition Depth Determination Through Global Analysis of Open Pit and Underground Mine Production Scheduling
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    Chapter 20 Consideration for Multi-objective Metaheuristic Optimisation of Large Iron Ore and Coal Supply Chains, from Resource to Market
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    Chapter 21 Application of Conditional Simulations to Capital Decisions for Ni-Sulfide and Ni-Laterite Deposits
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    Chapter 22 Simulation of Orebody Geology with Multiple-Point Geostatistics—Application at Yandi Channel Iron Ore Deposit, WA, and Implications for Resource Uncertainty
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    Chapter 23 New Efficient Methods for Conditional Simulations of Large Orebodies
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    Chapter 24 Transformation Methods for Multivariate Geostatistical Simulation—Minimum/Maximum Autocorrelation Factors and Alternating Columns Diagonal Centres
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    Chapter 25 Strategies for Mine Planning and Design
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    Chapter 26 Planning, Designing and Optimising Production Using Geostatistical Simulation
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    Chapter 27 Geometallurgical Modelling and Ore Tracking at Kittilä Mine
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    Chapter 28 Predicting Mill Ore Feed Variability Using Integrated Geotechnical/Geometallurgical Models
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    Chapter 29 Using Grade Uncertainty to Quantify Risk in the Ultimate Pit Design for the Sadiola Deep Sulfide Prefeasibility Project, Mali, West Africa
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    Chapter 30 Applicability of Categorical Simulation Methods for Assessment of Mine Plan Risk
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    Chapter 31 Cut-off Grade Based Sublevel Stope Mine Optimisation
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    Chapter 32 Classification of Mining Methods for Deep Orebodies
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    Chapter 33 Grade Uncertainty in Stope Design—Improving the Optimisation Process
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    Chapter 34 Strategic Optimisation of a Vertical Hoisting Shaft in the Callie Underground Mine
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    Chapter 35 Strategic Underground Mine Access Design to Maximise the Net Present Value
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    Chapter 36 Production Schedule Optimisation—Meeting Targets by Hedging Against Geological Risk While Addressing Environmental and Equipment Concerns
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    Chapter 37 A Stochastic Optimization Formulation for the Transition from Open-Pit to Underground Mining Within the Context of a Mining Complex
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    Chapter 38 An Open-Pit Multi-Stage Mine Production Scheduling Model for Drilling, Blasting and Excavating Operations
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    Chapter 39 Optimising the Long Term Mine Landform Progression and Truck Hour Schedule in a Large Scale Open Pit Mine Using Mixed Integer Programming
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    Chapter 40 Solving a Large SIP Model for Production Scheduling at a Gold Mine with Multiple Processing Streams and Uncertain Geology
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    Chapter 41 Stochastic Optimisation of Mineral Value Chains—Developments and Applications for the Simultaneous Optimisation of Mining Complexes with Uncertainty
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    Chapter 42 Sensor Based Real-Time Resource Model Reconciliation for Improved Mine Production Control—A Conceptual Framework
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    Chapter 43 On the Joint Multi Point Simulation of Discrete and Continuous Geometallurgical Parameters
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    Chapter 44 Geologically Enhanced Simulation of Complex Mineral Deposits Through High-Order Spatial Cumulants
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    Chapter 45 Optimising a Mineral Supply Chain Under Uncertainty with Long-Term Sales Contracts