Short-team planning for mining operations using robust optimization

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This research program aims to develop and solve a new approach for more robust planning of surface and underground mining operations in the very short-term and short-term. Operational planning determines the mining sequence for a period of three months to one year. It identifies the blocks of material to be mined out during this period and the order in which they will be. This scheduling must take into account several operational constraints such as the precedence among the blocks (among other things, to comply with safety rules on the maximum degree of slope), the precedence among the operational activities (drilling, blasting, transportation), the limit on the amount of ore that can be treated per day, the availability and the location of equipment such as shovels and drills, the access to extraction areas via ramps, etc.