Multicriterial assessment of the raw material transport

The interplant transport of mineral raw materials plays an important role in the mining process carried out in mining companies. An important part of this transport is a belt conveyor, utilised in underground mining as well as in open pits. The article is focused on suggestions regarding modifications of belt conveyor construction parameters which can contribute to optimization and innovation within the mineral raw materials transportation. Importance, or the effect, the strength of the impact of modifications of the selected parameters on the system optimization is assessed by the method of analytic hierarchy process. The article contains the complex knowledge obtained from the analysis of the belt conveyor system used in the limestone excavation and processing.