A review of operations research in mine planning

AM Newman, E Rubio, R Caro, A Weintraub… - …, 2010 - pubsonline.informs.org
Applications of operations research to mine planning date back to the 1960s. Since that
time, optimization and simulation, in particular, have been applied to both surface and …

A systematic review of artificial intelligence and data-driven approaches in strategic open-pit mine planning

R Noriega, Y Pourrahimian - Resources Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
The significant increase in data availability and high-computing power and innovations in
real-time monitoring systems enable the technological transformation of the mining industry …

Detection of water-filled mining goaf using mining transient electromagnetic method

J Chang, B Su, R Malekian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Water-filled mining goaves are extremely prone to water inrush accidents in coal mines, and
the transient electromagnetic method (TEM) is a good geophysical method for detecting …

A threshold-varying artificial neural network approach for classification and its application to bankruptcy prediction problem

PC Pendharkar - Computers & Operations Research, 2005 - Elsevier
We propose a threshold-varying artificial neural network (TV-ANN) approach for solving the
binary classification problem. Using a set of simulated and real-world data set for bankruptcy …

Operations research in the natural resource industry

T Bjørndal, I Herrero, A Newman… - International …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Operations research is becoming increasingly prevalent in the natural resource sector,
specifically in agriculture, fisheries, forestry and mining. While there are similar research …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis based on statistical distributions: A practical approach for stochastic solvers using discrete and continuous problems

J Herzog, J Brest, B Bošković - Information Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an approach for the analysis and comparison of stochastic solvers
based on the statistical distribution of their variables. The observed variables of the …

An iterated greedy algorithm for the large-scale unrelated parallel machines scheduling problem

FJ Rodriguez, M Lozano, C Blum… - Computers & operations …, 2013 - Elsevier
In this work, we tackle the problem of scheduling a set of jobs on a set of unrelated parallel
machines with minimising the total weighted completion times as performance criteria. The …

A mixed integer programming model for long term capacity expansion planning: A case study from The Hunter Valley Coal Chain

G Singh, D Sier, AT Ernst, O Gavriliouk… - European Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Hunter Valley Coal Chain is the largest coal export operation in the world with a
throughput in excess of 100 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa). Coal is delivered to the …

Modeling the integrated mine-to-client supply chain: a survey

JM Leal Gomes Leite, EF Arruda… - … Journal of Mining …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Mining is an important economic activity and a highly complex industry. As such, it demands
a complex supply chain to connect mines to clients, often involving railways, ports and long …

An empirical study of impact of crossover operators on the performance of non-binary genetic algorithm based neural approaches for classification

PC Pendharkar, JA Rodger - Computers & Operations Research, 2004 - Elsevier
We study the performance of genetic algorithm (GA) based artificial neural network (ANN) for
different crossover operators. We use simulated and real life data to test the performance of …