Preface to the 2nd Edition

The irst edition of Open Pit Mine Planning and Design appeared in 1995. We have been very
pleased with the response received and have been encouraged o provide an updated and somewhat
expanded version. The result is what you now hold in your hands. We hope that you will ind some
things of value.
The CSMine software included in the irst edition was written for the DOS operating system
which was current at that time. Although the original program does work in the Windows envi
ronment, it is not optimum. Furthermore, with the major advances in computer power that have
occurred during the intervening ten-year period, many improvements could be incorporated. Of
prime importance, however, was to retain the user friendliness of the original CSMine. We hope that
you will agree that we have succeeded in this regard.
Chapters 1, and 3-6 have remained largely the same but the reference lists have been updated.
The costs and prices included in Chapter 2 - Mining Costs and Revenues have been changed to
relect today's values. Two new chapters have been added to cover some important new devel
opments regarding resource/reserve definition (Chapter 7) and responsible mining (Chapter 8).
To facilitate the use of this book in the classroom, review questions and exercises have been
added at the end of chapters 1 through 9. As will be quickly realized, the "answers" have not been
provided. There are several reasons for this. First, most of the answers will be found by the careful
reading, and perhaps re-reading, of the text material. Secondly, for practicing mining engineers, the
answers to the opportunities offered by their operations are seldom provided in advance. The fact
that the answers are not given will help introduce the student to the real world of mining. Finally, for
those students using the book under the guidance of a professor, some of the questions will offer
discussion possibilities. There is no single "ight" answer for some of the included exercises.
A total of eight drill hole data sets involving three iron properties, two gold properties and
three copper properties have been included on the distribution CD. Each of these propeties is
described in some detail in Chapter 11. It is intended that when used in conjunction with the
CSMine software these data sets might form the basis for capstone surface mine design courses.
The authors would like to acknowledge the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and
Petroleum (CIM) for permission to include their 'Estimation of Mineral Resources and Mineral
Reserves: Best Practices Guidelines' in Chapter 7. The Australasian Institute of Mining and
Metallurgy (AusIMM) was very kind to permit our inclusion of the 'JORC-2004 Code' in Chap ter
7. The current commodity prices were kindly supplied by Platt's Metals Week, the Metal Bulletin,
Minerals Price Watch, and Skillings Mining Review. The Engineering News-Record graciously
allowed the inclusion of their cost indexes. The CMJ Mining Sourcebook,
EquipmentWatch/PRIMEDIA, and Western Mine Engineeing provided updated costs. The authors
drew very heavily on the statistics carefully compiled by the U.S. Depatment of Labor, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the U.S. Geological Survey.
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