I came to the Mining Engineering Department after spending seven years with Homestake Mining Company, where I served as senior mining engineer in the cooperate mine engineering department and as manager of the technical systems department.

During my industrial experience, I participated in the design of open pit mines and the evaluation of many exploration and acquisition projects. I worked very closely with the mine engineering staff of the operating open pit and underground hard-rock mines on short-and long-term mine planning, ore reserve estimation, and grade control issues.

I try to incorporate this experience into my teaching of both graduate and undergraduate courses as well as into my research activities. 

Research Interests :

Comparative study of moving cone and the Lerches Grossman algorithm in open pit limit design and its economics

Cutoff grade optimization for multiple ore types

Open pit mine production scheduling optimization

Open pit mine scheduling in Med System, a mine evaluation and design software package for Mintec. Inc.

Determination of in-pit dilution through geostatistical conditional simulation.

Course :

MNGN300 - Summer Field Session

MNGN312 - Surface Mine Design

MNGN433 - Mine Systems Analysis

MNGN438 - Introduction to Geostatistics

MNGN512 - Surface Mine Design

MNGN523 - Selected Topic

MNGN530 - Introduction to Computer Applications in Mining

MNGN538 - Geostatistical Ore Reserve Estimation

MNGN539 - Advanced Geostatistics

MNGN536 - Advanced Operations Research Applications in Mining Engineering

Selected Publications :

Contact Information :

Office Phone: (303) 273-3711
email: kdagdelen@mines.edu

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