Investigation of a Quarrying Optimization Problem

Controlled quarrying models have been considered in [1, 2] and elsewhere. These models are the product of a collaboration between the Department of Optimal Control at the Lomonosov State University’s Faculty of Computation Mathematics and Cybernetics and the international mining company BHPB Billiton. The present article is a continuation of [1, 2]. Our quarrying model is highly simplified. Yet it reflects some important theoretical aspects that arise in mining.