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-ofmine 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 Geological uncertainty quantification Schedule uncertainty assessment Project evaluation Cash-flow risk assessment Quantitative risk assessment Monte Carlo simulation Truck and shovel simulation

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

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 Database Geological Orebody Modeling Project Database

Inverse Distance & Kriging

Conditional Simulation

Distribution Fitting & Probability Analysis

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

Final Pit Limit Optimization

Long-term Schedule Optimization Quantitative Risk Assessment & Project Evaluation

Pit, Waste Dump, & Road Design

Uncertainty Analysis using Discrete Event Simulation

Short-term Schedule Optimization

Probable & Proven Reserves

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