36 Figure 5 – Hybrid flowsheet incorporating ILR and IMR with conventional mining and processing 3.2 Results and Discussion The application of the workflow to this orebody resulted in a predicted mine life of over 60 years. The optimisation routine was not used to smooth the production rate to the extent that would be done during later project stages. Figure 6 shows the simulated mine production and stope selection by mining method for the uppermost and lowest mining levels as an example of the sequencing output for one life-of-mine plan featuring a hybrid CM/ILM mining process and IMR recovery from backfilled stopes such as shown in Figure 5. Figure 6 – Simulated mine production by mining method for the CM+ILR+IMR scenario at two levels.
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