Using equivalent grade factors to find the optimum cut-off grades of multiple metal deposits

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 771-776

  Osanloo, M ^a   Ataei, M ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Modelling; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GRADING; INTERPOLATION; METALS; MINING ENGINEERING; OPTIMIZATION;

ELIMINATINO METHODS; GRADE FACTORS; GRADE-TONNAGE DISTRIBUTION; LANE ALGORITHM; MULTIPLE METAL DEPOSITS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; OPTIMUM CUT-OFF GRADES;

DEPOSITS;

EID: 0347410996     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-6875(03)00163-8     Document Type: Article

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