System, method and process for muon tomography for block caving

Abstract

A method for modelling a block cave mine comprising: at each of a plurality of spaced apart muon detection locations located in, or in a vicinity, of the block cave mine: detecting muons that interact with a muon detector over a time period; determining, from the interactions, measured directional muon intensities for a plurality of directions intersecting at the muon detection location; and optimizing an objective function to thereby obtain optimal values for a plurality of model parameters which parameterize a model of the block cave mine, wherein the objective function attributes cost to a difference between the measured directional muon intensities at the plurality of muon detection locations and modelled directional muon intensities at the plurality of muon detection locations, the modelled directional muon intensities based at least in part on the model parameters.

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