IF ASKED by the candidate, the following information is available:
- Mine is located in Canada
- Time horizon is 1 year
- 15.5m tons of ore can be extracted each year
- Everybody is working around the clock (3 shifts of 8 hours each)
- Each truck can carry up to 100t (costs of about €1m per truck)
- Excavators have a capacity of 100,000t/day
- Excavators extract ore and load it on the trucks. Then the trucks have to drive around 6km to the unload the ore and then drive back to the mine.