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It is obviosly possible to evaluate varius push work option without goinggoing to the
trouble of including the haulroads. However, a condiserable amount of material is in
volved in latter adding such a road to the design an the result can change markedly.

6.10.4 tense priod plants

Most of the pit planner’s work cauzents, 1979) in done on plant or bench maps.
These show:
- topography of surface contour
- location of ore
- geologic baundaries and
- design limits
Pit composite maps showing the shape of the mine at the end of each planning priod
shuld be kept up. These enable the planner to
- avoid conficts between features of the plant
- provide a picture of the acces at each stage a development
- Ilustrate the actual working-slops, operating room and spacial relationshiip between
ore and waste.
The transition from phase plant of time priod plants should be made as soon as the
phase design ore complete enoughto set theoveral pattern. The yerly plants :
- Enable devinite production goal to be set as space is well as quantities of material to
be moved.
- allow better economic evaluation than the phawe average privide
- give a devinition of tyhe relationship of the phase to each other asthey overlap in
thecomplete mine operatio. The show actualoperating slops and haulage routes.
Figure 6.76, 77, and .78 show such a 3 year progression of benches in an open pit
mine (cauzens 1979).

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The midbench countour have been plotted. The haulroads, stripping areas and part of
the waste dump are also shown. In this system the labeling of elevation is follows
(Cauzens, 1979).
(a) Outside of the pit the counturs sre labelled with their true elevation
(b) Inside of the pit
 The labelled elevation refer to the bench toe elevations.
 The elevation of bench centerline are one-half the bench height above of the
bench toe elevation. Thus it is flat areas between center lines that are lebelled.
 On ramps, the bench centerline cross the ramp halfway between benches. The
lables are positioned at woud be the actual bench evevati on the road.
 For more explanation of the labelling

At an mine operating thase will be number of different plant covering diffrent priods.
The engineering staff in generally, responsible for
 Anual ore reseverse estimination
 Yearly or miulty- yearly plant regarding the progression of the pit change in haul
roads
 Quaterly plans, and
 Mounthly plants
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The operating staff develop
 Weekly plans
 Dailly plants
Within the lomnger range framework
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6.10.5. equipment feet requirements
Once phase plans have been developed, equipment fleet requirements can be
examined (cauzens 1979). A graph showing the total tonnage movement and
waste/ore rations can be prepared. Om such a graph, the planner can see what nust be
done to adjust

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Or sooth out the production. Figure 6.79 show such a graph for a trial mining plant
before smooting has occured. In this case the miling frate was constant and was
worked out to achieve
 A good blent of ore
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 Good exposure and
 Good operating conditions
The amout of waste to removed was detrermined by these condition and as a result the
waste/ore ratiom vary. For the heavy sripping priod 2-13, the average waste/ore ratio
1,75, on attemp at replanning has been done in figure 6.80. The peaks have been
redistributed both earlier and later from the their original positions.
Figure 6.81 illutratesa type production schedullinggraph. The various relationship
between total tonnage movement, ore requirements, waste ratio, and sovel shifts are
shown. A presentation to management ore this type makes it possible to comunicate
the mining schedule better than just bare statements of tonnge and waste/ore ratios.

6.10.6. other planning consideration

Dump planning is also a part of the mine planners job, (Cauzents 1979). there are a
number of factors which enter the scene at this stage:
 Lenght of hauls.