Phase Planning for Open Pit Coal Mines through Nested Pit Generation and Dynamic Programming

This paper presents a phase planning method specially designed for coal deposits with nearly horizontal, bedded coal seams. The geology of this type of deposit is modeled into a column model, instead of a block model, to avoid coal-rock mixing in blocks. A nested pit generation algorithm is develope...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xiaowei Gu, Qing Wang, Xiaochuan Xu, Xiaoqian Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2021-01-01
Series:Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/8219431