Publications | COSMO

Strategic Mine Planning – Optimization
Geostatistics – Orebody Modelling – Resources/Reserves
Subsurface CO2 Sequestration, Environmental Geostatistics, Mine Rehabilitation
Refereed Book Chapters and Refereed Proceedings
COSMO Laboratory’s Past Student Theses

Mine Planning – Optimization

Del Castillo M. F.., Dimitrakopoulos R (2024) Adaptive Simultaneous Stochastic Optimization of the Escondida Mining Complex, Chile, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42461-024-01092-1
Findlay,L., Dimitrakopoulos R (2024) Stochastic Optimization for Long-Term Planning of a Mining Complex with In-Pit Crushing and Conveying Systems, DOI: 10.1007/s42461-024-01005-2.

Yaakoubi Y, Dimitrakopoulos R (2024) Neural branching and diving for optimizing industrial mining complexes under joint supply and demand uncertainties. EJOR, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2024.07.024

Jiang Y, Dimitrakopoulos R (2024) An application of simultaneous stochastic optimisation on an open-pit copper mining complex with supply, recovery and market uncertainties, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17480930.2024.2381904

Jiang Y, Dimitrakopoulos R (2024)Simultaneous stochastic optimisation of mining complexes with equipment uncertainty: Application at an open-pit copper mining complex , DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/25726668241263408

Levinson Z, Dimitrakopoulos R (2024) Simultaneous stochastic optimization of mining complexes: Integrating progressive reclamation and waste management with contextual bandits. International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment, DOI: 10.1080/17480930.2024.2342687.

Geostatistics – Orebody Modelling – Resources/Reserves

Subsurface CO2 Sequestration, Environmental Geostatistics, Mine Rehabilitation

Mustapha, H. and Dimitrakopoulos, R. (2011) Discretizing complex fractured fields for incompressible two-phase flow. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 65(7): 764-780. DOI: 10.1002/fld.2197
Mustapha, H., Dimitrakopoulos, R., Graf, T. and Firoozabadi, A. (2011) An efficient method for discretizing 3D fractured fields for subsurface flow and transport simulations. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 67(5): 651- 670. DOI: 10.1002/ï¬‚d.2383
Qureshi, S.E. and Dimitrakopoulos, R. (2010) Application of stochastic simulation and complex loss functions in a risk based approach to contaminated soil classification and remediation. Environmental Modeling and Software. Accepted with revisions.
Kumral, M. and Dimitrakopoulos, R. (2008) Selection of waste dump sites using a tabu search algorithm. SAIMM Journal, 108(1): 9-13.

Refereed Book Chapters and Refereed Proceedings

COSMO Laboratory’s Past Student Theses

Laura M.Sc. Thesis (2024), “Integrating Stope Design and Long-term Production Scheduling Under Uncertainty: Methods and Applications for an Operating Copper Mine “
Will Jiang M.Sc. Thesis (2024), “Exploring the Simultaneous Stochastic Optimization of Mining Complexes: Integration of Equipment, Recovery, and Market Uncertainties “
Zachary Levinson Ph.D. Thesis (2023), “Connecting Planning Horizons in Mining Complexes with Reinforcement Learning and Stochastic Programming: Integrating Additional Information, Preconcentration, Reclamation and Waste Management”
Christian Both, Ph.D. Thesis (2022), “Simultaneous Short-term Decision-Making in Mining Complexes Integrating Geometallurgy Assisted by Production Data“
Matheus Furtado e Faria, M.Eng. Thesis (2021), “A Stochastic Stope Design and an Integrated Stochastic Optimization of Stope Design and Long-Term Underground Mining Production Scheduling for Sublevel Open Stoping Mining Operations“
Daniel Morales, M.Eng. Thesis (2021), “High-order simulation of geological domains of a gold deposit and its effects on the simultaneous stochastic optimization of a mining complex“
Mélanie Anne LaRoche-Boisvert, M.Eng. Thesis (2020), “An application of simultaneous stochastic optimization in mining complexes and integrating mine-to-port transportation“
Lingqing Yao, Ph.D. Thesis (2020), “Developing new high-order sequential simulation methods based on learning-oriented kernels“
Ashish Kumar, Ph.D. Thesis (2020), “Artificial intelligence algorithms for real-time production planning with incoming new information in mining complexes“
Zachary Levinson, M.Eng. Thesis (2019), “Simultaneous stochastic optimization: Integrating waste management and feasible capital investments“
Zayneb Brika, Ph.D. Thesis (2019), “Optimisation de la planification stratégique d’une mine à ciel ouvert en tenant compte de l’incertitude géologique“
Ziad Saliba, M.Eng. Thesis (2019), “A study of simultaneous stochastic optimization of open pit mining complexes“
João Pedro de Carvalho, M.Eng. Thesis (2019), “High-order direct block support simulation and application at a gold mining complex“
Fernanda Del Castillo, Ph.D. Thesis (2018), “Dynamic simultaneous optimization of mineral value chains under resource uncertainty“
Rein Dirkx, M.Eng. Thesis (2016), “The optimization of mine planning aspects under uncertainty: a study on infill drilling and block cave scheduling”
Sean T. Grogan, M.Sc. Thesis (2016), “An adaptive neighborhood search algorithm for optimizing stochastic mining complexes”
Iain Farmer, M.Eng. Thesis (2016), “Stochastic Mining Supply Chain Optimization: A Study of Integrated Capacity Decisions and Pushback Design Under Uncertainty”
Matthew Quigley, M.Eng. Thesis (2016), “The Stochastic Optimization of Long and Short-term Mine Production Schedules Incorporating Uncertainty in Geology and Equipment Performance”
Maria Vallejo Garcia, M.Eng. Thesis (2016), “Stochastic Orebody Modelling and Stochastic Long-Term Production Scheduling for an Iron Ore Deposit, in Northern Quebec”
Michael Spleit, M.Eng Thesis (2015), “Production Schedule Optimisation – MeetingTargets by Hedging against Geological Risk while Addressing Environmental and Equipment Concerns”
James MacNeil, M.Eng. Thesis (2015), “Determining optimal open pit to underground mine transition depth using stochastic mine planning techniques”
Ahmad Rashid, M.Eng. Thesis (2015), “Reconstructing spatial images from limited samples using supervised and semi-supervised learning algorithms”
Sabrina Carpentier, M.Sc.Thesis (2015), “Planification Stratégique d’une Mine Souterraine en Tenant Compte de l’Incertitude Géologique”
Renaud Senécal, M.Sc. Thesis (2015), “Applications of tabu search parallel metaheuristic for stochastic long-term production scheduling”
Ryan Goodfellow, Ph.D. Thesis (2014), “Unified Modelling and Simultaneous Optimization of Open Pit Mining Complexes with Supply Uncertainty“
Luis Montiel, Ph.D. Thesis (2014), “On Globally Optimizing a Mining Complex under Supply Uncertainty: Integrating Components from Deposits to Transportation Systems“
Martha Villalba Matamoros, M.Eng. Thesis (2014), “Stochastic Short-term Production Scheduling Accounting for Fleet Allocation, Operational Considerations, Blending Restrictions and Future Multi-element Ore Control Data“
Murilo Nogueira Teixeira, M.Eng. Thesis (2014), “Application of Multiple-Point Simulation of Mineral Deposits Based on Discrete Wavelet Transform”
Mario De Freitas Silva, M.Eng. Thesis (2014), “Application of Efficient Frameworks for Joint Simulation of Multi-Element Mineral Deposits and Stochastic Optimization of Open Pit Mine Production Scheduling”
Putra Manggala, M.Sc. Thesis (2012), “On Markov Random Field Models for Spatial Data: Towards a Practitioner’s Toolbox”
Alexandre Marinho, M.Sc. Thesis (2012), “Surface Constrained Stochastic Life-of-Mine Production Scheduling”
Wadood Yahya, M.Eng. Thesis (2011), “Image reconstruction from a limited number of samples: a matrix-completion-based approach”
Conor Meagher, Ph.D. Thesis (2010), “On the Directed Cut Polyhedra and Open Pit Mining”
Francisco Albor, MEng Thesis (2010), “Exploring stochastic optimization in open pit mine design”
Xu Huan, Ph.D. Thesis (2009), “Robust decision making and its applications in machine learning”
Lucia Robles Stefoni, M.Eng. Thesis (2009), “Critical Analysis of Multiple-Points Statistics Methods in the Stochastic Simulation of Geology at Fox Kimberlitic Diamond Pipe Located on the Ekati Property, North West Territories”
Andre Leite, M.Eng. Thesis (2008), “Stochastic optimization approaches to open pit mine planning: Applications for and the value of stochastic approaches”
Richard Peattie, M.Phil. Thesis (2007), “The use of simulated future grade control drilling to quantify uncertainty in recoverable ore reserves”
Justin Scott, M.Phil. Thesis (2006), “Fractal and multifractal fault simulation: application using soft data and analogues at Wyong, New South Wales, Australia”
Volker Osterholt, M.Phil. Thesis (2006), “Simulation of ore deposit geology and an application at the Yandicoogina iron ore deposit, Western Australia”