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Abstract : In the mining industry, testing facilities are needed to provide information about the composition of the ores which
is essential in deciding whether a mining site is to be further explored. The availability and use of such testing facilities have a
direct effect on the efficiency of mining operations. This study focuses on determining optimal testing facility locations that
will provide laboratory services and needs of mining concentrations in Benguet.
The study applied a non-capacitated p-k Median Model to the combinatorial problem of searching and identifying the
optimum facility locations of a predetermined number of testing facilities such that the total weighted cost associated with
availing of services from a testing facility to its assigned mining concentration will be at minimum. The weighted cost is
computed to be the distance multiplied to the mining concentration’s relative demand. Demand was assumed to be in
proportion to the mining concentration’s area.
Twenty two mining concentrations in the province of Benguet were determined based on the map provided by the Tenements
Department of the Mining and Geosciences Bureau (MGB-CAR). Potential locations of the testing facilities are to be
situated in the main roads of Benguet, with 20-kilometer interval. Based on this, seven candidate locations were selected for
the testing facilities. To arrive at the solutions, Excel Solver was used solve the formulated non-capacitated p-k median model.
In conclusion, the study presented the optimal assignment of the 22 mining concentrations to each of the two additional testing
facilities and to the existing Baguio Facility.
Key words : Non-capacitated p-k Median Problems, Facility Location, Gold Mining, Extraction and Testing
The study entirely focuses on the location of the two testing Testing Facilities are non-capacitated which means
facilities excluding the one existing in Baguio. Cost analysis they can accommodate any size of demand from
is not included due to unavailability of data. mining concentrations.
Table B.5. Weighted Cost of Mining Concentration Nodes to Testing Facility Node 28 (Baguio City)