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Classical Surface Mine Scheduling Model Dr. Erkan Topal The purpose of long term scheduling in a given mine is to maximize the overall discounted net profit, while adhering set of operational constraints such as mining slope, grade blending, ore production and mining capacity. Mixed integer programming (MIP) is considered to be powerful tool in optimizing mine scheduling. The following model is considered to be basic optimization mathematical model for optimizing surface mine production scheduling. The objective function The main objective of the long term production scheduling is to maximize net present value (NPV) of the mine. In order to achieve this purpose the following formula is used. p n Maximize C * Xt t   i i t 1 i 1 where p is the maximum number of scheduling periods, n is the total number of blocks to be scheduled, Cit is the NPV to be generated by mining block i in period t and Xit is a binary variable, equal to 1 if the block i is to be mined in period t, 0 otherwise. Grade blending constraints The ore delivered from the mine to the mill or to the customer has to be in certain grade ranges. The generated schedule has to satisfy these upper and lower bound grade rage requirements. The following two constraints are generated to hold this requirement. a. Upper bound constraints: The average grade of the material sent to the mill has to be less than or equal to a certain grade value, Gmax, for each period, t n ) *gO * X 0 t  ( - i G i i max i 1 where g is the average grade of block i and O is the ore tonnage in block i. i