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This research innovates in open-stope mine layout optimization, transitioning from traditional manual identification of ore veins to an automated approach using DBSCAN and Principal Component Analysis for their identification and corresponding orientation estimation. Paired with an existing optimal stopes determination process, this method not only streamlines the layout design but also ensures efficient and precise configurations under specific constraints, such as stope and pillar sizes. Validation across five diverse, realistic instances demonstrated noteworthy accuracy and efficiency, revealing an average deviation of -0.6% and -0.1% for strike and dip angles, respectively, and processing 10 million blocks in under a minute.