Discrete Simulation and Animation for Mining Engineers

John R. Sturgul holds a BS in mining engineering (with honors) from Michigan Technological University, Houghton, USA; an MS in mathematics from the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA; and a Ph.D in mining engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He also holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Petrosani, Romania. Recognized as the world’s leading authority on the application of discrete system simulation to mines, Dr. Sturgul is currently a professor of mining engineering at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He has been actively engaged in mine simulation and animation for more than 30 years. His work in this field has taken him to more than 60 countries and earned him numerous awards in Chile, Romania, the United States, Spain, Argentina, Peru, South Africa, Greece, and Australia, where he received the Ray Page Lifetime Achievement Award from the Australian Simulation Society. His model of the Lihir gold mine, located on an island northeast of Papua New Guinea, was the first example of a mine initially designed using a simulation model. He published the first textbook on the subject in 2000, and now this new textbook explains the details of constructing such models.

What is PROOF Animation? Drawing a Layout. More on Layouts I. More on Layouts II. Some PROOF Icons. More PROOF Icons. Introduction to the GPSS/H Simulation Language. The GENERATER Block and Transactions. ADVANCE and TRANSFER Blocks. Making.ATF files. QUEUE/DEPART Blocks. SEIZE/RELEASE Blocks. Arithmetic in GPSS/H. ENTER/LEAVE Blocks. Other forms of the TRANSFER Block. The TEST Block. Standard Numerical Attributes (SNAs). FUNCTIONS. PARAMETERS. More on Parameters. TABLEs. LOGIC Switches and the GATE Block. Misc. Statements. The SELECT and COUNT Blocks. Variables and Expressions. The BUFFER Block. The ASSEMBLY Block. MATCH, GATHER and PREEMPT Block. MACROs. A Few More PROOF Icons. SAVEVALUES.