Adaptive mine planning under geological uncertainty: A POMDP framework for sequential decision-making

ArXi:2605.13702v1 Announce Type: new Strategic mine production scheduling under geological uncertainty is conventionally formulated as a stochastic optimization problem in which a fixed extraction sequence and routing decisions are computed ex ante. This plan-driven paradigm treats uncertainty as passive: decisions are hedged across geological scenarios, but planning does not anticipate how future observations will inform future decisions.