Open Pit Mine Planning and Design

\Services
OptiTek Mining Consulting Ltd. provides mining engineering services with
focus on open pit mine planning and design. OptiTek offers value added
professional services through design, optimization, and risk analysis of open
pit mining and mineral processing operations. OptiTek integrates expertise in
mining engineering, optimization, mathematical programming, and risk
analysis to create added value to your enterprise through sophisticated
production scheduling solutions that delivers optimum efficiency while
meeting all the technical and operational constraints. An optimized life-of-
mine production schedule defining the complex strategy of displacement of
ore, waste and overburden is developed which leads to reserve estimations
compliant with the National Instrument 43-101 guidelines. OptiTek offers
expertise at scoping, prefeasibility, feasibility, and operational level in:
Ore reserve estimation
Open pit mine design
Open pit optimization
Strategic mine planning
Push-back & phase design
Long-term scheduling
Stockpiling & blending
Cut-off grade optimization
Short-term scheduling
Processing calibration
Multi-mine optimization, scheduling
OptiTek Mining Consulting Ltd. Geological uncertainty quantification
Hooman Askari, PhD, PEng.
Schedule uncertainty assessment
Principal Mining Engineer Project evaluation
Phone: +1 780 893 9365 Cash-flow risk assessment
Fax: +1 780 990 1291 Quantitative risk assessment
Email: hooman@optitek.ca Monte Carlo simulation
Website: http://www.optitek.ca
Truck and shovel simulation
Open Pit Mine Planning & Design:

NI 43-101 compliant integrated reserve estimation.

Final pit limits optimization and relevant risk quantification.
Strategic mine planning, push-back and phase design, mining cuts definition.
Optimization of long-term production schedule (maximize NPV or reserves).
Cut-off optimization, stockpiling, blending, and dynamic cut-off grades.
Short-term production schedule optimization (minimize operational costs).
Design pits, waste dumps, ramps, roads, slots.

Quantitative Risk Assessment:

Assessment of transfer of geological uncertainty into production schedules.

Quantitative risk assessment of production schedules and cash-flows.
Defining probability distributions for uncertain variables (grade, price, ...).
What-if analysis of production schedules using decision trees.
Quantitative risk assessment of projects using Monte Carlo simulation.

Drillhole Project
Database Database

Geological Orebody
Modeling

Inverse Distance Conditional Distribution Fitting &

& Kriging Simulation Probability Analysis

Iteration
Block Model -
Technical & Economic
Inferred, Indicated, &
Project Parameters
Measured Resources

Final Pit Limit Long-term Schedule

Optimization Optimization

Quantitative Risk
Pit, Waste Dump,
Assessment &
& Road Design
Project Evaluation

Uncertainty Analysis
Short-term Schedule Probable & Proven
using Discrete Event
Optimization Reserves
Simulation
 Open Pit Mine Planning and Design

\Discrete-Event Simulation of Mining Systems:

Simulate production schedules with uncertain production resources.
Predict fleet productivity for long and short-term planning.
Evaluate truck, shovel, and crusher availability and utilization.
Assess possible deviations from target productions.
Calculate haulage costs.

OptiTek Mining Consulting Ltd.

Hooman Askari, PhD, PEng.

Principal Mining Engineer
Phone: +1 780 893 9365
Fax: +1 780 990 1291
Email: hooman@optitek.ca
Website: http://www.optitek.ca