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With Multi-Pit
2007 Dr. B. C. Paul
{Note The Name MineSight and the Program described are property of
Mintec Inc Tucson, Arizona}
Doing it Backwards
Conventional Wisdom
Get the ultimate pit
Develop Staged Pits that lead to the optimum
Mining Rate
As a practical limit around 80,000 to
100,000 tons per day is about the limit
Let our rate be 100,000 tons/day
If we run 320 days per year about a limit
Means run about 32 million tons/year
Know about 15,000 tons/block
About 2,133 blocks per year
Choose
MSOP to run
It calculates the
Maximum number of
Pit steps.
Im
Selecting
The full
Range of
Blocks in
The model.
I called this my
Multi-Pit Run
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