Review on the Development of Mining Method Selection to Identify New Techniques Using a Cascade-Forward Backpropagation Neural Network

Table 8

Ranking of all mining methods using CFBPNN.

Mining method	Final Rank
Open pit	10
Block caving	5
Sublevel stoping	2
Sublevel caving	4
Longwall mining	8
Room and pillar	9
Shrinkage stoping	3
Cut and fill stoping	1
Top slicing	6
Square set stoping	7

The bold means the best mining method based on the results.