301214 (v.2) WASM Open Pit Mine Planning and Equipment Selection 601
| Area: | WASM Mining Engineering Teaching Area |
| Contact Hours: | 25.0 |
| Credits: | 12.5 |
| Lecture: | 1 x 25 Hours Weekly |
| Prerequisite(s): | 301210 (v.2) WASM Applied Mining Geostatistics and Resource Estimation 601 or any previous version
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| Introduction to strategic open pit planning and design concepts. Optimisation in open pit design. 3D ultimate pit limit algorithms and their applications. Computer aided haul road generation and dump design, heuristic long and short term scheduling techniques, mathematical optimisation for sequencing and scheduling. Equipment selection. Drill-blast-shovel-truck production systems. Equipment monitoring and grade control strategies. Future concepts in open pit mining. Design procedures are illustrated using various computer programs. |
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