The course content addresses the following topics:
- Optimisation in mine planning
- Linear and integer programming applications in mine planning and optimisation
- Global optimisation as applied to mining
- Queuing theory as applied to mining
- Dispatch optimisation
- Decision tree and fault tree analysis in mineral projects
- Monte Carlo and discrete event simulation methods
- Statistical analysis and probability theory
- Multi-criteria decision analysis techniques
- Theory of constraints
- Mine-to-mill or resource-to-market optimisation