Since the Industrial Revolution, the impacts of human activities have changed the global
climate system, and climate warming has had rapid and widespread effects on the planet. At …

Advanced data acquisition and process modelling technology provide 'real-time'data and
decision support capacity for different aspects of the resource extraction process. Closed …

This book describes an innovative closed-loop concept that allows the feedback of online
data from operational monitoring to create mining intelligence. The application of this …

An efficient resource model updating framework concept was proposed aiming for the
improvement of raw material quality control and process efficiency in any type of mining …

In recent years a real-time resource model updating concept has proven to increase the
material quality control and process efficiency in geostatistics. The real-time resource model …

Material management in opencast mines is concerned with planning, organizing, and
control of the flow of materials from their extraction points to destinations. It can be strongly …

One main problem in the modeling of mineral deposits is to design a block model that
divides the deposit into homogeneous subdomains. The spatial uncertainty in the geological …

The need to trace the ore composition in KGHM has been discussed so as to give a
processing plant at least one shift advance to adjust beneficiation parameters and optimize …

A primary concern of the mining industry is to meet production targets, which are required
and defined by customers. Deviations from these targets, in terms of quality and quantity …

Nowadays, the mining industry actively advocates and practices the concept of green and
integrated exploitation to realize the sustainable development of resources with low-carbon …