8. Nicole Player, MGT - Creating a Mine with Datamine Scenario Planning and S...Kristy Marshall
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Joel Hirschboeck, Kwik Trip, presented information on the Natural Gas Applications for Off-Road Vehicles for our Natural Gas for Transportation Roundtable in Mequon, WI.
Deswik-IPCC2013 Presentation-Scenario based analysis of IPCC trade-offsDeswik
This presentation was delivered by Deswik at the I-M Mining IPCC 2013 conference on 14th October 2013.
The presentation outlines a recommended approach for assessing the viability of In Pit Crushing and Conveying (IPCC) for mining operations. The key point is that modelling MUST include both the proposed system as well as other conventional fleet areas of the mine, modelled as a single system. This allows identification of system interactions and fatal flaws that are evident only in a combined mine plan model.
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8. Nicole Player, MGT - Creating a Mine with Datamine Scenario Planning and S...Kristy Marshall
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Contact sales@dataminesoftware.com to enquire about Datamine software solutions.
Joel Hirschboeck, Kwik Trip, presented information on the Natural Gas Applications for Off-Road Vehicles for our Natural Gas for Transportation Roundtable in Mequon, WI.
Deswik-IPCC2013 Presentation-Scenario based analysis of IPCC trade-offsDeswik
This presentation was delivered by Deswik at the I-M Mining IPCC 2013 conference on 14th October 2013.
The presentation outlines a recommended approach for assessing the viability of In Pit Crushing and Conveying (IPCC) for mining operations. The key point is that modelling MUST include both the proposed system as well as other conventional fleet areas of the mine, modelled as a single system. This allows identification of system interactions and fatal flaws that are evident only in a combined mine plan model.
In previous years multiple presentations called for development of mine planning software that is capable of effective IPCC planning. Deswik commenced work in February 2013 on addressing this need, and have formed a partnership with industry experts RWE to ensure the result is fit for purpose. This presentation illustrates techniques that use the first results of this endeavour.
Presentation delivered by Frank Farshidi, Ph.D., P.E., City of San Jose, at the CalAPA Fall Asphalt Pavement Conference Oct. 24-25, 2018 in Sacramento, Calif.
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PLG Consulting "Frac Sand - New Volume Impact" presentation given by Taylor Robinson at Industrial Minerals Conference on 9/23/2014 in Minneapolis, MN.
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Vattenfall: Challenges for next generation offshore WTGs from a developer’s p...Torben Haagh
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Presentation delivered by Frank Farshidi, Ph.D., P.E., City of San Jose, at the CalAPA Fall Asphalt Pavement Conference Oct. 24-25, 2018 in Sacramento, Calif.
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PLG Consulting "Frac Sand - New Volume Impact" presentation given by Taylor Robinson at Industrial Minerals Conference on 9/23/2014 in Minneapolis, MN.
On September 25, 2013, PLG Consulting President Taylor Robinson presented at Industrial Minerals’ Frac Sands Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The premise of the conference is: 'After the Gold Rush'; providing an in-depth assessment of exactly how the industry has reached its current heights and, importantly, where it is headed next. Taylor’s presentation, entitled “Mine to Market – How the Industry Has Matured,” gives current and future insight to all key aspects of the rapidly maturing frac sand supply chain.
Vattenfall: Challenges for next generation offshore WTGs from a developer’s p...Torben Haagh
Hinnerk Maxl, Project Manager Installation Logistics Sandbank at Vattenfall Europe Windkraft, presented experience made in completed and ongoing projects at last year’s “Giant Offshore Wind Turbines” conference. Learn about the supply chain design and installation methodology implemented in his presentation here: http://bit.ly/SP_Presentation_Maxl
The top engineer leading pavement design initiatives will provide a perspective on the status of various specification changes, construction standards and pilot projects. Presenter: Tom Pyle, Chief, Caltrans Office of Asphalt Pavement. Presentation delivered Oct. 13, 2021 at the CalAPA Fall Asphalt Pavement Conference in Sacramento,
Presented by Todd Bush of Energent Group at The Energy Forum in Houston, Texas (modified from original to remove sensitive data). The purpose of the Haynesville Refrac Study was to determine operators, service companies, and suppliers involved in refracs. 40 initial completions and refracs were examined to understand economics, performance, and products. Most refracs utilized less proppant & showed ROI within 12 months. Production uplift varied across operators & material used.
Integrated Asset Modeling for Market Driven Gas Planning - GasAssureStochastic Simulation
GasAssure is a fully integrated asset modeling solution (IAM) for market-driven gas planning, which enables long-term gas forecasting to support key commercial decision making. It delivers a unique "reservoir to market" solution, allowing for short, medium and long-term gas planning from source, through processing and delivery, right up to the allocation of resources to meet the market demand.
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Application of multi criteria optimisation and trade-off analysis (dr wei liu)Dr Wei Liu
Road asset management is, at its core, a process of resource (e.g., budget, manpower, and facility) allocation and utilization. In order for efficient and cost-effective preservation and operation of assets both holistically and individually, it is necessary to incorporate relevant analytical tools for rational and integrated asset management decision-making. Accordingly, specialized tools for resource allocations at various working levels that characterize different features are required. The use of optimization approaches for managing infrastructure assets has received increasing attention in the last few decades due to tighter budgets, increasing demands, and stricter accountability in transportation investments and policies decisions.
Traditional single-criteria optimization approaches have been implemented in many infrastructure asset management systems such as IBC optimisation in dTIMS. Single-criteria optimization identifies the best feasible solution in terms of a single measure of value. However, it is often not a holistic approach to make a decision based on one evaluation criterion only. This is especially true in an infrastructure management decision-making context. In this paper, a multi-criteria cross-asset optimisation and trade-off analysis framework is introduced and the prototype tool developed for the framework provides an implementable method that can be used to directly link planning, resource allocation, and programming to achieve agency’s multiple performance goals. A case study was carried out to demonstrate how the framework and tool together with dTIMS modelling analysis can be used to develop optimised long-term forward work programmes for different objective functions as well as simultaneously satisfying various budgets and ONRC-oriented performance constraints.
Dr. Dave Jones of the University of California Pavement Research Center provides an academic perspective of in-place recycling in a presentation delivered during the CalAPA Spring Asphalt Pavement Conference March 7-8, 2024 in Ontario, Calif.
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Session Overview
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4. Joe Kraft, Minemax - Minemax Scheduler Applications
1. www.minemax.com - Perth, Australia - Denver, USA
www.minemax.com - Perth, Australia - Denver, USA
Practical Applications of Minemax Scheduler for Strategic
Mine Planning
Joe Kraft – Minemax
2. OFFICES IN PERTH, AUS
AND DENVER, USA.
EXPERTS IN STRATEGIC
SCHEDULE OPTIMISATION
GLOBAL SOFTWARE
IMPLEMENTATIONS OVER
25 YR HISTORY
MEMBER OF THE
CONSTELLATION
SOFTWARE FAMILY
More than a mining software company
We’re your go-to mine planning partners.
3. Minemax Scheduler Professional
Simultaneously
• Conquer strategic complexity
• Solve for cut-off and destinations
• Leverage stockpiles, blending, products
• Integrate and solve for CAPEX
• Optimise schedule for max NPV
4. Standard Practice – Strategic Mine Scheduling
Mine Planners are solving larger and more complex mine scheduling problems
everyday.
– Considering:
▪ Time value of money and project value
▪ Sequencing fundamentals driven by economic model
▪ Blending, destination, and/or product grade restrictions
▪ Constraints to revenue generation
▪ Multi-period solving
5. The challenges continue…
What if there are multiple downstream competing options, complexities, or
‘beyond-the-pit’ requirements?
– Such as:
▪ Incorporating pit backfill
▪ Planning for constrained haulage routes
▪ Conditional waste delivery for tailings dams
▪ Assessing capital investment for expansion elements
▪ Directly incorporating corporate financial objectives
How do we leverage these situations in mine schedule optimisation?
7. Pit Backfill – Modelling aspects
• Looking to solve for waste destinations at the same time as the schedule
• Sequencing-dependent location interaction
• Precedence controls between pits/backfills
• Haulage distance/time differential benefit is likely the incentive
Pit Backfill Modelling
8. Waste cycle decomposition
from pit/phase bench to
surface dump
Waste cycle decomposition from
pit/phase bench to backfill dump
Loaded Direction
CPP
Loaded Direction
CPP
BF
Mechanics of the cost/benefit: Haulage
• When solving for destinations – need to be accurate with parameters
– Modelling truck hour burden to enable decision-making during solve
– Cycle time network decomposed to apply explicitly to routes (use of CPP)
Pit Backfill Modelling
10. Context of the problem
• Seeking lowest cost, most automated scheduling software tends to send all material
on shortest route
• All trucks on shortest route may not always be practical or achievable
• As a result, the schedule would be infeasible (under-calling truck requirements
and/or ability to deliver plan tonnage)
B A
Constrained Route Modelling
11. Route Constraints – Modelling Aspects
• Modelling routes as processes (decisions), units of material can only take one path
• Route availability/capacity modelled as discretised constraint
• Optimisation solves for what material on what route
• Combined with haulage fleet capacity constraint (operating in parallel)
Constrained Route Modelling
13. Modelling tailings dam material delivery
• Certain spec material required over time
• Seeking to avoid/reduce stockpiling and re-handling
• Integrate decisions in optimisation model where they can influence mine sequence
Conditional Waste Planning
14. Conditional Waste Delivery : Modelling Aspects
• Revenue from mill is dependent on tailings storage availability
• Volume for tailings dam modelled with specific design capacity
• Design capacity must be accumulated by certain timeline or mill shuts down
• Haulage (truck hours) differential for each waste destination.
Conditional Waste Planning
16. Which constraints are binding the mine schedule?
• Likely to vary from period to period, particularly in blending situations
• Certain constraints, such as the bottleneck(s) to revenue generation, should be binding,
and tied to heavy capital
• Solve for these capex options to evaluate effect on sequence and project value
Spare
Capacity
Period X
RESERVES
Excav
Haul
A
B
D
MARKET
Access
C
Processing/Downstream
Mining
CAPEX Optimization
17. Truck Capex Optimisation: Modelling Aspects
• Truck hours modelled as a process for each destination
• Fleet truck hours expressed as a constraint
• Capex definition for a single truck instance
– Purchase price
– Capacity Release
– Lifespan of Asset
• Only purchases if expanding truck hours (by adding a truck and incurring the cost) will
return greater value for the schedule
CAPEX Optimization
19. Modelling Corporate Financial Objectives
• Seeking to achieve maximum NPV schedule, whilst adhering to company financial
strategy and obligations.
– Cash reserve thresholds
– Debt re-payment schedules
– Capital spending limits
– Minimum cashflow/returns per period
• Minemax Scheduler treats these as financial constraints
Financial Constraints