Principles of Discrete Event Simulation
Principles of Discrete Event Simulation
Operations modeling and analysis of open pit copper mining using GPS tracking data
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
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In open-pit mining, there are four main operations: drilling, blasting, loading, and haulage. In the past years, several studies have been made on the shoval-truck systems. However, the drilling-blasting-loading system was neglected in spite of the fact that it takes 30--40% of the total expenditure in production. In order to cover this gap, a computer simulation program was developed and the relationship between the drill-rigs and shovels was investigated. It is discovered that the advance of faces for each cycle plays a dominant role in meeting the requirements of a balance production. The simulation program can be used to calculate the optimum advance for different combination of machines.