Minable reserve estimation while determining ultimate pit limits (UPL) under price uncertainty by real option approach (ROA)

Archives of Mining Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 321-339

  Akbari, A D ^a   Osanloo, M ^b   Shirazi, M A ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Minable reserve; Open Pit Mining; Price uncertainty; Real option approach; Ultimate pit limits (UPL)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954873088     PISSN: 08607001     EISSN: 16890469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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