抄録
A multi-period planning model for underground cut-and-fill operations was constructed for the purpose of maximizing discounted profit under given production constraints. The ore grades were estimated through geostatistics for minimizing the estimation errors, and production costs were calculated on the basis of the practical operation data. A sequential planning algorithm based on dynamic programming (DP) was then developed to specify the most profitable mining sequence, and applied to a Chinese copper-iron mine employing cut-and-fill stoping. Calculation results showed that the proposed DP-based sequential planning strategy can produce larger discounted profits than those obtained by the advance and retreat mining sequences.
