Publicaciones Indexadas (ISI)

• Pierre Nancel-Penard, Nelson Morales, Valentina Rojas & Tomás González (2020). A heuristic approach for scheduling activities with "OR"-precedence constraints at an underground mine. International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment, Volume 34(10), 748-762.

•  Fabián Manríquez, Javier Pérez & Nelson Morales (2020). A simulation-optimization framework for short-term underground mine production scheduling. Optimization and Engineering. 21, 939–971.

• Enrique Jelvez, Nelson Morales & Hooman Askari-Nasab (2020). A new model for automated pushback selection. Computers & Operations Research, Volume 115, 104456. (Esta publicación pertenece a la edición especial: Recent Advances in Mine Planning, Scheduling and Optimisation: Theory and Applications).  

•   Enrique Jelvez, Nelson Morales, Pierre Nancel-Penard & Fabien Cornillier (2020). A new hybrid heuristic algorithm for the Precedence Constrained Production Scheduling Problem: A mining application. Omega, Volume 94, 102046.

•   Mohammad Maleki, Enrique Jelvez, Xavier Emery & Nelson Morales (2020). Stochastic open-pit mine production scheduling: a case study of an iron deposit. Minerals, 10(7), 585. (Esta publicación pertenece a la edición especial: Geological Modelling, Volume II). 

 Publicaciones en Libro de Proceedings - Conferencias (no ISI)

•  Carlos Toledo & Nelson Morales (2020). An application of Direct Block Scheduling for short-term construction in panel caving. En Proceedings de MASSMIN2020, Santiago, Chile, pp. 850 - 861.

•  Enrique Jelvez, Matías Caro, Nelson Morales & Alex Carpanetti (2020). A comparison between conventional nested pits based on LG and an extended approach for generating nested pits in open-pit mine production. En Proceedings de MASSMIN2020, Santiago, Chile, pp. 1421 - 1433.

•  Cristóbal Cerón, Pierre Nancel-Penard & Nelson Morales (2020). Application of a semi-automatic method for optimal ramp design. En Proceedings de MASSMIN2020, Santiago, Chile, pp. 1434 - 1441.

•  Ricardo Moreno, Manuel Reyes-Jara & Pierre Nancel-Penard (2020). A comparison between open-pit ramp design obtained by varying design characteristics and through linear optimization. En Proceedings de MASSMIN2020, Santiago, Chile, pp. 1442 - 1450.

•  Valeria Loor & Nelson Morales (2020). Applying artificial intelligence for optimal production scheduling and phase design in open-pit mining. En Proceedings de MASSMIN2020, Santiago, Chile, pp. 1451 - 1466.

•  Luis Alvarez & Nelson Morales (2020). Optimización de planificación de desarrollo y preparación de corto plazo en minería subterránea, In Journal of Mining Engineering and Research 2(2).

Publicaciones Indexadas (ISI)

•   Pierre Nancel-Penard, Andrés Parra, Nelson Morales, Cristopher Díaz & Eleonora Widzyk-Capehart (2019). Value-optimal design of ramps in open-pit mining. Archives of Mining Sciences, Volume 64, N° 2, pp. 399-413.

• Nelson Morales, Sebastián Seguel, Alejandro Cáceres, Enrique Jélvez & Maximiliano Alarcón (2019). Incorporation of geometallurgical attributes and geological uncertainty into long-term open-pit mine planning. Minerals, 9(2), 108. (Esta publicación pertenece a la edición especial: Geometallurgy).

•   Fabián Manríquez, Nelson Morales, Gastón Pinilla & Iván Piñeyro (2019). Discrete event simulation to design open-pit mine production policy in the event of snowfall. International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment. Volume 33, N° 8, pp. 572-588

Publicaciones en Libro de Proceedings - Conferencias (no ISI)

•   Nelson Espejo, Nelson Morales & Pierre Nancel-Penard (2019). A methodology for automatic ramp design in open-pit mines. Journal of Mining Engineering & Research, Volume 1, N° 2, pp. 87-93.

•   Felipe Orellana, Nelson Morales & Enrique Jelvez (2019). Modelo integrado de simulación y optimización para planes mineros de corto plazo en minería a cielo abierto. Journal of Mining Engineering & Research, Volume 1, N° 2, pp. 150-158.

•   Enrique Jelvez, Nelson Morales & Julian Ortiz (2019). Impact of geological uncertainty at different stages of the open-pit mine production planning process. En Proceedings de 28° MPES 2019, Perth, Australia, pp. 83-91.

•   Sergio Montané, Pierre Nancel-Penard & Nelson Morales (2019). Optimization and sequencing a semiautomated ramp design in underground mining: a case study. En Proceedings de 28° MPES, Perth, Australia, pp. 139-145.

•   Fabián Manríquez, Héctor González, & Nelson Morales (2019). Short-term open-pit production scheduling with hierarchical objectives. En Proceedings de 39° APCOM 2019, Wrocław, Polonia, pp. 443-451.

•   Gonzalo Nelis, Nelson Morales & Julián Ortíz (2019). Performance assessment of antithetic random fields in a stochastic mine planning model. En Proceedings de 39° APCOM 2019, Wrocław, Polonia, pp. 300-308.

•   Nelson Espejo, Pierre Nancel-Penard & Nelson Morales (2019). A procedure to generate optimized ramp designs using mathematical programming. En Proceedings de 39° APCOM 2019, Wrocław, Polonia, pp. 272-278.

•  Valentina Rojas, Tomás González & Nelson Morales (2019). Optimization of an annual mining development plan using mathematical programming. En Proceedings de 6° Conferencia Internacional de Geología y Planificación Minera - Geomin-Mineplanning 2019, Santiago, Chile, pp. 272-280.

•  Josué González & Nelson Morales (2019). Simulation and optimization of bench-mining sequences using fully mobile in-pit sizer and conveyor systems. En Proceedings de 6° Conferencia Internacional de Geología y Planificación Minera - Geomin-Mineplanning 2019, Santiago, Chile, pp. 261-271.

•  Héctor González, Nelson Morales & Fabián Manríquez (2019). Loading equipment planning considering optimization and simulation for the fulfilment of a production plan in open pit mining. En Proceedings de 6° Conferencia Internacional de Geología y Planificación Minera - Geomin-Mineplanning 2019, Santiago, Chile, pp. 290-298.

Publicaciones Indexadas (ISI)

• Gonzalo Nelis & Nelson Morales (2021). A mathematical model for the scheduling and definition of mining cuts in short-term mine planning. Optimization and Engineering (en prensa), 1-25.

•   Pierre Nancel-Penard & Nelson Morales (2021). Optimizing pushback design considering minimum mining width for open pit strategic planning. Engineering Optimization (en prensa).

•   Mohammad Maleki, Nasser Madani & Enrique Jélvez (2021). Geostatistical algorithm selection for mineral resources assessment and its impact on open-pit production planning considering metal grade boundary effect. Natural Resources Research (en prensa).
•   Gonzalo Nelis, Frédéric Meunier, Nelson Morales (2021), Column Generation for Mining Cut Definition with Geometallurgical Interactions, Natural Resources Research (accepted). 
•   Fabián Manríquez, Héctor González, Nelson Morales (2021), Short-term open-pit production scheduling optimizing multiple objectives accounting ‎for shovel allocation in stockpiles, Optimization and Engineering.

Publicaciones en Libro de Proceedings - Conferencias (no ISI)

•  Gonzalo Nelis & Nelson Morales (2021). A comparison of mining cut definition and scheduling algorithms for open-pit short-term mine planning. En Proceedings de APCOM2021, Johannesburgo, Sudáfrica, pp. 55 - 67.

•  Isleem Kaabachi, Frederic Meunier & Nelson Morales (2021). Optimising the ramp design in an open-pit mine. En Proceedings de APCOM2021, Johannesburgo, Sudáfrica, pp. 365 - 376.

•  Nelson Morales, Enrique Jélvez, Gerson Morales, Fabián Soto, Gonzalo Díaz, Felipe Navarro (2021). PYRAMP - A platform for resource assessment and mine planning in Jupyter. En Proceedings de APCOM2021, Johannesburgo, Sudáfrica, pp. 569 - 583.

•  Mohammad Maleki, Enrique Jélvez, Xavier Emery & Nelson Morales (2021). Assessing the impact of geology, ore grades and recovery uncertainties into production scheduling. En Proceedings de GEOMIN-MINEPLANNING 2021, Santiago, Chile, pp. 193 - 195.

•  David Meneses & Enrique Jélvez (2021). Planificación de la producción con capacidades de producción flexibles en minería a cielo abierto. En Proceedings de GEOMIN-MINEPLANNING 2021, Santiago, Chile, pp. 329 - 331.

•  Luis Álvarez & Nelson Morales (2021). Optimización de planificación de preparación de corto plazo en panel caving. En Proceedings de GEOMIN-MINEPLANNING 2021, Santiago, Chile, pp. 241 - 242.

•  Stefano Utili, Andrea Agosti & Nelson Morales (2021). OptimalSlope: a software to determine optimal pitwall shapes which maximises mining financial returns while minimising carbon footprint. En Proceedings de GEOMIN-MINEPLANNING 2021, Santiago, Chile, pp. 303 - 307. 

•  S Abulkhair, N Madani and N. Morales (2021). Reproduction of inequality constraint between iron and silica for accurate production scheduling. En Proceedings of Iron Ore Conference, Perth, Australia, pp. 531 - 541.

Publicaciones Indexadas (ISI)

• Andrés Parra, Nelson Morales, Javier Vallejos & Phu Minh Vuong Nguyen (2018). Open pit mine planning considering geomechanical constraints. International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment. Volume 32, N° 4, pp. 221-238.

• Pedro Campos, Carlos Arroyo & Nelson Morales (2018). Application of optimized models through direct block scheduling in traditional mine planning. Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Volume 118, N° 4, pp. 381-386.

• Gonzalo Nelis, Julián Ortiz & Nelson Morales (2018). Antithetic random fields applied to mine planning under uncertainty. Computers & Geosciences, Volume 121, pp. 23-29.

Publicaciones en Libro de Proceedings - Conferencias (no ISI)

• David Meneses, Nelson Morales & Enrique Jélvez (2018). Metodología de planificación minera a cielo abierto considerando planes alternativos. En Proceedings del II Congreso Iberoamericano en Minería Subterránea y a Cielo Abierto - UMining 2018, Santiago, Chile. pp. 23-34.

• Enrique Jélvez & Nelson Morales (2018). Impacto de la incertidumbre geológica en diferentes etapas del proceso de planificación de la producción de minas a cielo abierto. En Proceedings del II Congreso Iberoamericano en Minería Subterránea y a Cielo Abierto - UMining 2018, Santiago, Chile. pp. 35-45.

• Héctor González & Nelson Morales (2018). Optimal selection and assignment of loading equipment for the compliance of an open pit production plan. En Proceedings del 27° International Symposium on Mine Planning and Equipment Selection - MPES 2018, Santiago, Chile.

• Gonzalo Nelis, Nelson Morales & Eleonora Widzyk-Capehart (2018). Comparison of different approaches to strategic open-pit mine planning under geological uncertainty. En Proceedings del 27° International Symposium on Mine Planning and Equipment Selection - MPES 2018, Santiago, Chile.

• Sergio Montané, Pierre Nancel-Penard & Nelson Morales (2018). Methodology to optimize and sequence the semiautomated ramp design in underground mining. En Proceedings del 27° International Symposium on Mine Planning and Equipment Selection - MPES 2018, Santiago, Chile.

• Valentina Rojas, Tomás González & Nelson Morales (2018). Generation of a monthly mining development plan for underground mines using mathematical programming. En Proceedings del 27° International Symposium on Mine Planning and Equipment Selection - MPES 2018, Santiago, Chile.

• Raúl Amirá, Nelson Morales & Alejandro Cáceres (2018). Analysis of the impact of the dilution in the planning of open-pit mines for highly structural veti-shaped bodies. En Proceedings del 27° International Symposium on Mine Planning and Equipment Selection - MPES 2018, Santiago, Chile.

• Enrique Jélvez, Nelson Morales & Pierre Nancel-Penard (2018). Open-pit mine production scheduling: improvements to MineLib library problems. En Proceedings del 27° International Symposium on Mine Planning and Equipment Selection - MPES 2018, Santiago, Chile.