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Dowd, Peter Alan Xu, Chaoshui Sepúlveda Escobedo, Exequiel Manuel School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering 2018 http://hdl.handle.net/2440/114242 Interest in geometallurgy has increased significantly over the past 15 years or so because of the benefits it brings to mine planning and operation. Its use and integration into design, planning and operation is becoming increasingly critical especially in the context of declining ore grades and increasing mining and processing costs. This thesis, comprising four papers, offers methodologies and methods to quantify geometallurgical uncertainty and enrich the block model with geometallurgical variables, which contribute to improved optimisation of mining operations. This enhanced block model is termed a geometallurgical block model. Bootstrapped non-linear regression models by projection pursuit were built to predict grindability indices and recovery, and quantify model uncertainty. These models are useful for populating the geometallurgical block model with response attributes. New multi-objective optimisation formulations for block caving mining were formulated and solved by a meta-heuristics solver focussing on maximising the project revenue and, at the same time, minimising several risk measures. A novel clustering method, which is able to use both continuous and categorical attributes and incorporate expert knowledge, was also developed for geometallurgical domaining which characterises the deposit according to its metallurgical response. The concept of geometallurgical dilution was formulated and used for optimising production scheduling in an open-pit case study. Thesis (Ph.D.) (Research by Publication) -- University of Adelaide, School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, 2018 Research by publication geometallurgy optimisation mine planning risk assessment Quantification of uncertainty of geometallurgical variables for mine planning optimisation Theses This electronic version is made publicly available by the University of Adelaide in accordance with its open access policy for student theses. Copyright in this thesis remains with the author. This thesis may incorporate third party material which has been used by the author pursuant to Fair Dealing exceptions. If you are the owner of any included third party copyright material you wish to be removed from this electronic version, please complete the take down form located at: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/legalsopen.access