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Dr. Kazakidis is a tenured Associate Professor with all of his degrees in Mining Engineering. He has been with the School of Engineering at Laurentian University since January 2001. Prior to that, for a ten-year period, he was the director of Dias Engineering Inc., based in Sudbury, Ontario, where he gained extensive experience in engineering design and decision analysis in dealing with mineral resource development projects, as well as management of applied industrial research projects.

 

He worked on consulting and industrial research assignments in Canada and overseas dealing with underground mine design, mining geomechanics, production system analysis, production simulation, economic impact of ground-related problems, and the impact of mining community relations on feasibility studies.  As part of his work assignments, Dr. Kazakidis interacted with all levels of a mining company, both at the operating and corporate levels, from the miner at the face of a heading to the president level of a corporation. This particular experience forms the basis for the courses Dr. Kazakidis teaches in the areas of mine feasibility, mine economics, design risk management of mining systems, underground mining methods and engineering economics.

 

Current research interests focus on close collaboration with the local mining industry and lie in the areas of flexible mining systems, rapid development, quality control, decision analysis, underground mine planning, frozen backfill design, deep mining, risk management in mine feasibility, and mining community relations. Sources of research funding include the mining industry, NSERC and Laurentian University.

 

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

 

Chapters in Academic Books:

 

Kazakidis, V. and Mayer Z., (2010), Real Options in Underground Mining Systems Planning and Design, Chapter 9, In Real Options in Engineering Design, Harriet Black Nembhard & Mehmet Aktan (eds), CRC Press, Taylor  Francis Group, pp. 99-122

 

  Articles (in refereed journals: published or accepted):

 

Cheung, D. and V.N. Kazakidis, (2013), “A Methodology for Design Risk Assessment in Burst-Prone Mines: A Case Study”, Accepted with revisions for publication to the CIM Bulletin, Canadian Inst. of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum

 

Kazakidis V., Gaidajis G. and Angelakoglou K., (2013), “Evaluation of Environmental and Social Parameters of a Gold-Mining Project at the Prefeasibility Stage: A Case study”,  Int. Journal of Global Perspective on Engineering Management (GPEM), World Academic Publishing Inc., 10 p.

 

Kenzap, S.A and V.N. Kazakidis, (2013), “Operating Risk Assessment for Underground Metal Mining Systems: Overview and Discussion”, Int. J. Mining and Mineral Engineering, Inderscience Publishers, 21 p.

 

Kenzap, S.A and V.N. Kazakidis, (2011), “Simulation of Operating Risk in Mine Feasibilities”, Transactions of the Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME), USA, Vol. 330, 7 p.

 

Schafrik, S. and V. Kazakidis, (2011), “Due Diligence in Mine Feasibility Studies for the Assessment of Social Risk”, Int. J. of Mining, Reclamation and Environment, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 86–101

 

Kenzap, S.A and V.N. Kazakidis, (2010), "Evaluation of vertical shafts excavation alternatives in mines using the analytical hierarchy process", Mining Reporter, The International Journal for Mining, Tunnelling, Equipment and Technology in Germany, 2-2010, with permission from AIMS, pp. 31-36

 

Kenzap, S.A and V.N. Kazakidis, (2009), “Quality Assessment of the Development Cycle with Drilling and Blasting”, Mining Reporter, The International Journal for Mining, Tunnelling, Equipment and Technology in Germany, 3-2009, with permission from AIMS, pp. 24-34

 

Cardin, M.A., de Neufville R., and Kazakidis, V.N., (2008), “A Process to Improve Expected Value of Mining Operations”, Mining Technology, (IMM  A), Inst. of Materials, Minerals and Mining, UK., No 2, pp. 65-70.

 

Kenzap, S.A. and Kazakidis, V.N., (2008), “Quality Cost Assessment in Mine Tunnelling with Drilling and Blasting”, Int. J. of Mineral Resources Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 161-177.

 

Kenzap, S.A. Peloquin, L.J.  and Kazakidis, V.N., (2007), “Use of Discrete-Event Simulation for Evaluation of Quality in Hard Rock Mine Lateral Development”, Int. J. of Mineral Resources Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 49-72

 

    Published conference proceedings and presentations:

 

S.A. Kenzap  and V. N. Kazakidis, (2013), “Operating Risk Valuation for Optimization of Underground Metal Mining Systems: Assessment and Applications”, Presentation in the 23rd World Mining Congress, Montreal, August 11-15, 10 p.

 

D.L. Cluff  and V.N. Kazakidis, (2013), “Opportunities and Constraints of Engineering Frozen Backfill for Underground Mining Applications in Permafrost”, Presentation in the  10th International Symposium of ASCE on Cold Regions Development, Anchorage, AK, June 2-5, 16 p.

 

Kenzap, S. and V. Kazakidis, (2011), “Assessment of Operating Risk in Mine Feasibility Studies”, The 22^nd World Mining Congress, September 11-16, Istanbul, Turkey, 8 p.

 

Kenzap, S.A and V.N. Kazakidis, (2011), “Optimization of Operating Risk in Mining System Through Monte-Carlo Simulation”, Applied Simulation and Modelling, ASM 2011, IASTED, June 22-24, Crete, Greece, 8 p.

 

D. Cluff and V. Kazakidis, (2010), “Frozen Backfill for Underground Mine Applications”, ME/MO, Sudbury, Oct., 11 p.

 

S.Kenzap and V. Kazakidis, (2010), “Operating Risk in Economic Analysis for the Assessment of Design & Planning Alternatives in Underground Mine Feasibilities”, ME/MO, Sudbury, Oct., 30 p.

 

O. Beruar and V. Kazakidis, (2010), “Risk analysis of mining the 4700 crown pillar”, CIM 2010, Vancouver, May 9-12, 10 p.

 

S.A. Kenzap and V.N. Kazakidis, (2010), "Evaluation of vertical shafts excavation alternatives in mines using the analytical hierarchy process", Mineral Resources and Mine Development, AIMS 2010, Aachen, May 26-27, 14 p.

 

D. Cheung, V. Kazakidis, and B. Simser, (2009), “A Methodology to Assess the Vulnerability of Design Alternatives in Burst-Prone Mines”, MPES 2009, Banff, Alberta, November 16-19, 11p.

 

D. Cluff and V. Kazakidis, (2009), “Evaluation of Frozen Backfill for Open Stope Underground Mining in Permafrost Conditions”, Poster presentation, OCE Discovery, Toronto, May 17-18

 

S.A. Kenzap  and V.N. Kazakidis, (2009), “Quality Assessment of the Development Cycle with Drilling and Blasting”, Aachen High Performance Mining, AIMS 2009, Aachen, June 3-4, 21 p.