Browsing School of Mining and Geosciences by Subject "Large-scale optimization"

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A new open-pit mine planning optimization method using block aggregation and integer programming

Mai, N. L.; Topal, Erkan; Erten, O. (Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2018-07-01)

Mathematical programming has been applied to optimizing open pit mine planning problems since the early 1960s. Nonetheless, it still remains challenging to obtain a life-of-mine plan with current computational hardware and ...