McGill Mining System Dynamics Group led by Prof. Alessandro Navarra
Creation and extension of simulation platforms to support engineering projects within the minerals industry, including initial development, continuous improvement and reengineering of mines, mineral concentrators and metallurgical facilities, as well as tailings and waste rock management facilities, and environmental reclamation. Quantitative approaches to enhance the coordinated function of critical operations within and across mining sites. Standardization of operational modes that coordinate mining and metallurgical operations, in response to geostatistical variation and other sources of uncertainty. Localized detailing of physical, physicochemical and operational phenomena within system-wide dynamic mass balances. Discrete event simulation (DES) of mining and metallurgical operations, with application to mine automation engineering. Incorporation of scheduling algorithms, computational optimization and machine learning within DES. Virtual-reality-based training of mining, metallurgical and earthmoving operations, with DES representing offscreen dynamics.
