Conference Proceedings
Mining Industry Optimisation Conference, Sydney, June l991
Conference Proceedings
Mining Industry Optimisation Conference, Sydney, June l991
Optimisation of Mines and Smelters by the Application of Improves Computing Systems
This paper covers period from 1973 through to 1988 and the mines of West Coast Mines, Elur Mine, North Mine and Risdon Zinc Smelter, now all part of the Pasminco Group. During this period, optimisation started with one mine (West Coast Mines) producing four Product concentrates with constant steady feed to the smelter and progressed to three mines producing eight products and a smelter varying feed inputs to maximise benefits. The initial optimisation was done manually using a desk top calculator and hand drawn graphs. This ultimately advanced to the use of PC plus linear programming software and spreadsheet generating relevant graphics. The financial benefits were achieved with no capital expenditure and increased from an initial $0.5 to $1.0 M/year (1973 $'s) to $5 to $10 M/year (1988 $'s).
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P J O'Dwyer, J E Quayle
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- Published: 1991
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