Capital Costs

You define obstacle removal costs prior to pit optimization and all other capital costs prior to scheduling.

You can define the following capital costs:

• Location dependent obstacles: defined by an outline with removal cost attached. All optimization programs starting with Pit Optimizer take these costs into account. To define obstacle removal costs, create a Pit Limits 3D Object with “obstacle” regions and choose this object in Pit Optimizer's Options dialog.

• Pushback startup costs that affect Scheduling and Mine Flow optimizations (only required in Studio NPVS, not NPVS+), defined in Scheduler’s Capital Costs screen.

• Location-dependent and startup costs are taken into account during scheduling optimization.​

• All capital costs are included in revenue and NPV calculations whenever they are relevant.

Related topics and activities

• Scheduler Essentials

• Scheduler: Quick Start

• Pit Optimization Quick Start