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Heuristic approaches for mine planning and production scheduling

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Traditional methods and opimization methods for mine planning and production scheduling have failed to provide easy to use tools that yield improved results. Two new approaches, each combining the best of the traditional and the optimization, are described.

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  1. Department of Management, Temple University, Pennsylvania, 19122, Philadelphia, PA, USA

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Gershon, M. Heuristic approaches for mine planning and production scheduling. International Journal of Mining and Geological Engineering 5, 1–13 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01553529

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