Applications of SC technologies to various minin grelated sub-ects are reviewed in this paper.
Further more, their application sand potential solutions to difficulties in mining engineering havebeen discussed.
Many types of SC technologies have been applied to MMS problems including expert system, fuzzy algorithm,
ANN, Yagar’smethod, fuzzy entropy combined with AHP, and TOPSIS.
Most ofthe studies focused on setting weight factors for each criterion and tried to simulate the exact thought process of decision makers.
To narrow down the scale of the MMS problem, setting the candidate mining methods before running an MMS system couldstill be a very subjective activity.
On the other hand, given that many mines are switching to underground mining after the surface exploitation, none of the developed MMS systems can handle the multiple sequential choices required in the transition from openpit to underground mining.