<p>During the last few years, most production-based businesses have been under enormous pressure to improve their top-line growth and bottom-line savings. As a result, many companies are turning to systems and technologies that can help optimise their supply ...

<p>For the purpose of production scheduling, open-pit mines are discretized into three-dimensional arrays known as block models. Production scheduling consists of deciding which blocks should be extracted, when they should be extracted, and what to do with ...

<p>The main objective of this paper is to describe the process of mine scheduling as is being practiced At Bogoso Gold Limited in its mine planning activities.<br /><br />The Bogoso area has a long and chequered mining history of both open pit and underground ...