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Effective planning and design of surface or underground mine is crucial to their economic success, and commercially available design software has become a key part in this process. This module commences with a review of mine planning requirements, input data required for design of surface or underground mining operations including geotechnical and economic parameters. The module will provide you an overview of present mining planning practice and mine method selection. The module will provide you an understanding of mine cut-off grade determination and present industrial mine design techniques and the latest developments in project optimisation. The module will give you knowledge relating to use of mine design software for both surface and underground excavations. We will determine suitable cut-off grades, the economic ultimate open pits limits using optimization algorithms such as industrial standard Lerchs-Grossman, and the layout of underground mine design. The module will then look at the mine scheduling process, the requirements for mine studies and reporting codes.

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