Ranking of Exploitation from Abandoned Underground Lead and Zinc Mines of Yazd Province Using ELECTRE III Method

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Shahrood University of Technology

Abstract

    Basic in this paper in order to rank the lead and zinc reservoirs of Yazd province from view point of exploitation, some abandoned mines and mineral resources of lead and zinc have been studied. For this purpose, general information such as distance from main road and roads quality, previous mining works have been done, grade and mineralogy of ore and reserve, have been collected from 21 mines. Then for ranking of these mines, ELECTRE III as a multi criteria decision making method has been used. The results of this investigation show that Tajkooh, Drrezanjir and Mehrjerd have highest ranks of investmentability respectively.
 
 

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