A review of operations research in mine planning

Interfaces

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 222-245

  Newman, Alexandra M ^a   Rubio, Enrique ^b   Caro, Rodrigo ^b   Weintraub, Andrés ^b   Eurek, Kelly ^a  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Dispatching; Equipment selection; Literature review; Mine design; Mine planning; Open pit mining; Optimization; Production scheduling; Simulation; Underground mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953576882     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1090.0492     Document Type: Article

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