Sustainable Mineral Development- A Theoretical Paradigm for Compliance of Strategic and Short-term Mine Plans

根据加拿大的经济行动计划，能源和矿业部门每年为政府提供约250亿加元的收入，用于支持医疗保健、教育和公共养老金等关键社会项目。在未来十年，计划推进600多个重大资源项目，价值超过6800亿美元。加拿大对可持续和最佳地开发和利用其矿产资源负有全球责任。拟议的研究与加拿大自然资源部的合作领导下的可持续矿产开发倡议保持一致，以创造加拿大矿产资源开发和规划的竞争优势。建议的研究计划旨在制定一个综合的矿山系统规划，从而在所需的市场规格范围内提取和制备矿物，对环境的影响最小，经济回报最大，并在可接受的社会，法律的和监管限制。这项建议是我们过去关于长期、短期和业务采矿规划的研究和结论的延伸。其目标是制定一个综合的矿山规划框架，该框架可以制定可行、可靠和可实现的矿山计划，以避免项目中断并提高运营效率，从而在可接受的社会和环境限制范围内产生最大的经济回报。预计这项研究的成果将有助于负责任的资源开发，通过业界的原型开放源码软件应用程序向从业人员和最终用户转让知识。预计将通过该方案培训三名博士生和三名硕士生。

According to Canada's Economic Action Plan the energy and mining sector provides approximately $25 billion a year in revenue to governments money that supports critical social programs such as health care, education, and public pensions. Over the next decade, more than 600 major resource projects, worth over $680 billion, are planned to move ahead. Canada has a global responsibility to develop and utilize its mineral resources sustainably and optimally. The proposed research is aligned with the Sustainable Mineral Development Initiative, under the collaborative leadership of Natural Resources Canada, to create a competitive advantage in mineral resource development and planning for Canada. The suggested research program aims to develop an integrated mine systems planning, whereby a mineral is extracted and prepared within a desired market specification, with the minimum repercussions on the environment, maximum economic return, and within acceptable social, legal, and regulatory constraints. This proposal is an extension to our past research and findings on long-term, short-term and operational mine planning. The goal is to develop an integrated mine planning framework that can produce feasible, reliable, and achievable mine plans to avoid project disruptions and improve operational efficiencies in order to generate maximum economic returns within acceptable social and environmental constraints. It is anticipated that the outcome of this research will contribute to responsible resource development by transferring knowledge to practitioners and end-users through prototype open-source software applications in the industry. It is foreseen that three PhD and three Master's students will be trained through this program.