Robustness price of open-pit mine production scheduling

Aref Alipour, Ali Asghar Khodayari, Ahmad Jafari, Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam
2020 International Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering  
An Open-Pit Production Scheduling (OPPS) problem focuses on specifying block production scheduling to achieve the highest possible Net Present Value (NPV). This paper presents a new mathematical model for OPPS under uncertainty. To this end, a robust box and ellipsoidal counterpart approach was used. The proposed method was implemented in a hypothetical model. A Genetic Algorithm (GA) and an exact mathematical modeling approach were used to solve the model. It was shown that the scheduling of
more » ... terministic and robust models in various conditions is different. Considering the type of robust counterparts, different production plans under various conditions were scheduled. Furthermore, the price of robustness was determined for various levels of conservation.
doi:10.22059/ijmge.2019.267417.594762 doaj:a944171532e342d89a4c6db56becb872 fatcat:knh263c62bco5pv3bnrhoqydxy