Applications of operations research to mine planning date back to the 1960s. Since that
time, optimization and simulation, in particular, have been applied to both surface and …

There is an everlasting distance and interdependence between mines and end-users as it
involves different types of equipment, infrastructure, and facilities, including excavators …

The 5th edition of Model Building in Mathematical Programming discusses the general
principles of model building in mathematical programming and demonstrates how they can …

Global optimization for mining complexes aims to generate a production schedule for the
various mines and processing streams that maximizes the economic value of the enterprise …

Similar to the mixed-integer programming library (MIPLIB), we present a library of publicly
available test problem instances for three classical types of open pit mining problems: the …

For the purpose of production scheduling, open-pit mines are discretized into three-
dimensional arrays known as block models. Production scheduling consists of deciding …

This paper deals with the Open-Pit-Mining Operational Planning problem with dynamic truck
allocation. The objective is to optimize mineral extraction in the mines by minimizing the …

In this chapter we begin with a brief explanation of linear programming (LP) since integer
programming (IP) is usually regarded as an extension of LP. Also most practical methods of …

The problem of long-term production planning of open pit mines is a large combinatorial
problem. Application of mathematical programming approaches suffer from reduced …

We describe new algorithms for solving linear programming relaxations of very large
precedence constrained production scheduling problems. We present theory that motivates …