Open pit optimisation including mineral dressing criteria using 0-1 non-linear goal programming

Institution of Mining and Metallurgy. Transactions. Section A: Mining Technology

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Esfandiari, Bijan ^a   Aryanezhad, Mir Bahador ^b   Abrishamifar, S Amir ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Goal programming; Mineral dressing; Open pit mines; Open pit optimisation; Production scheduling

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANNING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; RANDOM ERRORS; SCHEDULING;

FINAL PIT LIMIT; GOAL PROGRAMMING; PUSHBACK DESIGN; VALUE PITS;

MINING ENGINEERING;

EID: 2542427578     PISSN: 14749009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/037178404225004265     Document Type: Article

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