OPEN PIT, UNDERGROUND AND TRANSITION
MINE PLANNING SERVICES
We design mining strategies that maximize project value while minimizing technical and environmental risks.
I. Mining Operations Design
– Drilling
– Blasting
– Loading and Hauling
– Dumping
– Pre-Stripping
– Ground Support
– Ventilation
– Backfilling
II. Open-Pit Mining Optimization, Design, and Planning
– Profit optimization through maximum flow-based methods.
– Traditional mining plan sequencing by phases and benches.
– Direct Block Scheduling.
– Stochastic Direct Block Scheduling.
– Incorporation of geological uncertainty.
– Incorporation of geometallurgical uncertainty.
– Integration of geotechnical, environmental, and logistical capacity constraints.
– Multi-scenario sensitivity analysis.
– 2D/3D slope stability modeling.
– Mining design.
– Progressive closure plans with ecological restoration integrated into the mining sequence.
III. Underground Mining Optimization, Design, and Planning
– Selection of the optimal method (block caving, cut and fill, sublevel stoping, room and pillar, etc.) through multi-criteria analysis.
– Optimization of underground layouts.
– Design of mine development and infrastructure.
– Design of underground production units (all methods).
– Stochastic simulation of cave-ins using PCBC (Block Caving).
– Optimization of ramps, raises, and tunnels using shortest path algorithms.
– Development sequence planning with integration of ventilation and logistics constraints.
– CFD modeling of airflow.
Numerical stress modeling to define drilling and support patterns.
– Optimization of bolt meshes and shotcrete through deep learning algorithms trained on historical data.
– Optimization of underground transportation systems using discrete simulation.
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