A sliding time window heuristic for open pit mine block sequencing

DOI10.1007/s11590-011-0306-2zbMath1262.90102OpenAlexW2046010791MaRDI QIDQ691428

Christopher Cullenbine, R. Kevin Wood, Alexandra M. Newman

Publication date: 30 November 2012

Published in: Optimization Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-011-0306-2

zbMATH Keywords

mine planningmine schedulingopen pit miningsurface mining

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integer programming (90C10) Deterministic scheduling theory in operations research (90B35) Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming (90C59)

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Uses Software

• AMPL
• CPLEX

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