Open Pit Mine Planning and Design, Two Volume Set & CD-ROM Pack, Third Edition, 3rd Edition

Building on the success of its 2006 predecessor, this 3

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edition of Open

Pit Mine Planning and Design has been both updated and extended,

ensuring that it remains the most complete and authoritative account of mo-

dern open pit mining available. Five new chapters on unit operations have

been added, the revenues and costs chapter has been substantially revised

and updated, and the references have been brought fully up to date. In addi-

tion, the pack now also includes a fully working version of the MicroMODEL

mine planning software package.

Volume 1 deals with the fundamental concepts involved in the planning

and design of open pit mines. Subjects covered are mine planning, mining

revenues and costs, orebody description, geometrical considerations, pit limits,

production planning, mineral resources and ore reserves, responsible mining,

rock blasting, rotary drilling, shovel loading, haulage trucks and

machine availability and utilization.

Volume 2 includes CSMine and MicroMODEL, user-friendly mine planning

and design software packages developed specifically to illustrate the prac-

tical application of the involved principles. It also comprises the CSMine

and MicroMODEL tutorials and user’s manuals and eight orebody case

examples, including drillhole data sets for performing a complete open pit

mine evaluation.

Open Pit Mine Planning and Design is an excellent textbook for courses

in surface mine design, open pit design, geological and excavation enginee-

ring, and in advanced open pit mine planning and design. The principles

described apply worldwide. In addition, the work can be used as a practical

reference by professionals. The step-by-step approach to mine design and

planning offers a fast-path approach to the material for both undergraduate

and graduate students. The outstanding software guides the student through

the planning and design steps, and the eight drillhole data sets allow the

student to practice the described principles on different mining properties

(three copper properties, three iron properties and two gold properties).

The well-written text, the large number of illustrative examples and case

studies, the included software, the review questions and exercises and the

reference lists included at the end of each chapter provide the student with

all the material needed to effectively learn the theory and application of open

pit mine planning and design.

Photograph: BINGHAM CANYON mine. Courtesy of Kennecott Utah Copper.

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