Research Article

Operational Efficiency Forecasting Model of an Existing Underground Mine Using Grey System Theory and Stochastic Diffusion Processes

Table 13

One simulation path of DOL.

ParameterValue
Year
678910

Production rate (t/year)10000010500097000100000110000
Fixed costs (USD)16000001800000150000017000002000000
Revenues (USD)
 Ore grade (%)-normal distribution4.073.784.314.013.86
 Mill recovery rate (%)-uniform distribution79.2778.5478.6277.7178.32
 Metal content of the concentrate (%)53.853.853.853.853.8
 Metal recovery rate (%)8585858585
 Zinc metal price (USD/t)-mean reversion process20251936206424092120
 Revenues (USD)1304064212152559136380241525491314228955
Production costs (USD)
 Unit production costs (USD/t)-geometric Brownian motion71.5688.3390.7798.0195.87
 Production costs (USD)715638892747938805646980186910546252
Working days (day/year)330330340340340
Degree of use of production capacity (%)8690928593


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DOL-AGO7.8928.9819.72310.95512.147
DOL-inverse AGO1.3461.0890.7421.2321.192