Prediction of unit haulage cost in an underground mine using machine learning techniques

• Autorzy: Cotrina Marco , Marquina Jairo , Polo Junior

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DOI

10.46873/2300-3960.1454

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The primary objective of the research was to apply machine learning techniques to forecast the unit costs of ore hauling in an underground mine. The methodology employed was quantitative, with a nonexperimental and descriptive design. Haulage data were collected over a 12-month period. Furthermore, an exploratory data analysis (EDA) was conducted using various models, including ANN-MLP (Artificial Neural Network – Multilayer Perceptron), Random Forests, Extreme Gradient Boosting, Support Vector Regression, Decision Tree, KNN, and Bayesian Regression, to handle the data’s complexity. The data were split into 80% for training, 10% for testing, and 10% for validation. The results indicated that the ANN-MLP achieved an R2 of 0.94 and an MSE of 8.77, the Random Forests showed an R2 of 0.97 with an MSE of 3.78, XGBoost achieved an R2 of 0.99 with an MSE of 2.03, SVR yielded an R2 of 0.96 with an MSE of 5.05, KNN obtained an R2 of 0.90 with an MSE of 13.57, and the Bayesian Regression model achieved an R2 of 0.88 with an MSE of 16.15. Ultimately, it was concluded that the XGBoost model exhibited the best performance in forecasting the unit costs of ore haulage in an underground mine.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

machine learning techniques; unit cost; underground mine

PL

techniki uczenia maszynowego; koszt jednostkowy; kopalnia podziemna

• Wydawca: Elsevier ; Główny Instytut Górnictwa
• Czasopismo: Journal of Sustainable Mining
• Rocznik: 2025
• Tom: Vol. 24, iss. 2
• Strony: 250--266
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 44 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Cotrina Marco

• National University of Trujillo, Department of Mining Engineering, Peru

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3801-0370

autor

Marquina Jairo

• National University of Trujillo, Department of Mining Engineering, Peru

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5880-8227

autor

Polo Junior

• National University of Trujillo, Department of Mining Engineering, Peru

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0230-393X

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