Combined optimisation of an open-pit mine outline and the transition depth to underground mining

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2018.02.005MaRDI QIDQ1754360zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. Whittle, P. A. Grossman, M. Brazil, J. Hyam Rubinstein, D. A. Thomas

Publication date 30 May 2018

Published in European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.02.005

zbMATH Keywords

graph theoryOR in natural resourcescost benefit analysisclosure problemstrongly connected components

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Programming involving graphs or networks (90C35)

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• A new approach to the maximum-flow problem
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Uses Software

• MineLib

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