Enrique Jelvez, Nelson Morales, Julian Ortiz (2021), Stochastic final pit limits: an efficient frontier analysis under geological uncertainty in the open-pit mining industry, Mathematics (aceptado en special issue "Optimization for Decision Making III").
Utili, S., Agosti, A., Morales, N. et al. (2022) Optimal Pitwall Shapes to Increase Financial Return and Decrease Carbon Footprint of Open Pit Mines. Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration.
Nelson Morales, Diego Mancilla, Roberto Miranda, Javier Vallejos (2022), A fast method to develop an optimal operational sublevel stope design, aceptado in Resources Policies.
Pierre Nancel-Penard, Nelson Morales, Fabien Cornillier (2022), A recursive time aggregation-disaggregation heuristic for the multidimensional and multiperiod precedence-constrained knapsack problem: an application to the open-pit mine block sequencing problem, aceptado en European Journal of Operational Research.
Nelson Morales, Pierre Nancel-Penard, Nelson Espejo (2021), Development and analysis of a methodology to generate operational open-pit mine ramp designs automatically, Optimization and Engineering (aceptado).
José Pablo Espinoza, Mauricio Mascaró, Nelson Morales, Javier Ruiz del Solar (2022),Improving productivity in block/panel caving through dynamic confinement of semi-autonomous Load-Haul-Dump machines, International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment.