Applied Mineral Inventory Estimation presents a comprehensive applied approach to the estimation of mineral resources/reserves with particular emphasis on the geological basis of such estimations, the need for and maintenance of a high quality assay data base, the practical use of comprehensive exploratory data evaluation, and the importance of a comprehensive geostatistical approach to the estimation methodology. Practical problems and real data are used throughout as illustrations. Each chapter ends with a summary of practical concerns, a number of exercises and a short list of references for supplementary study. This textbook is suitable for any university or mining school that offers senior undergraduate and graduate student courses on mineral resource/reserve estimation.
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"The book will find wide use as a reference in exploration and mining companies, and as a text in professional short courses. Geologists working on exploration projects that have moved beyond discovery drilling will want access to this book. It also should find wide use in mine offices, to be consulted by geologists and engineers dealing with mine planning and ore quality problems. It will also serve as a useful guide for the selection and evaluation of consulting specialists." Economic Geology
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This textbook presents an applied approach to the estimation of mineral resources/reserves with particular emphasis on the geological basis of such estimations, the need for and maintenance of a high quality assay data base, the practical use of a comprehensive exploratory data evaluation, and the importance of a comprehensive geostatistical approach to the estimation methodology. The textbook is suitable for any university or mining school that offers courses on mineral resource/reserve estimation. It will also be valuable for professional mining and geological engineers and geologists working with mineral exploration companies.
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This review is from: Applied Mineral Inventory Estimation (Hardcover)
This is an excellent book covering all aspects of the subject including data collection, verification, and analysis along with geostatistics. Good sections on making sure that the statistically derived answers make geologic sense, a most important aspect. Anyone in the mineral inventory estimation field should get a copy.
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This textbook is based on the premise that the true variance of the distance-weighted average can be replaced with the pseudo kriging variance of a set of degrees-of-freedom and variance-deprived functionally dependent kriged estimates. The distance-weighted average was reborn as an honorific kriged estimate but that could not possibly make its variance vanish without a trace. Just another textbook were the requirement of functional independence and the concept of degrees of freedom are ignored with impunity.
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The investment necessary to start a mine is on the order of tens to hundreds of millions of dollars. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
minimum mining width, blasthole data, average semivariogram value, inventory estimation, unbiased histogram, cutoff grade, geologic domains, geologic continuity, multiple indicator kriging, ore continuity, principal grid directions, true block grades, relative semivariogram, average gamma value, lognormal subpopulations, blasthole assays, different semivariogram models, ore classed, outlier grades, square data array, bench composites, blasthole samples, mineral inventory, grade continuity, barren dyke Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British Columbia, Silver Queen, Equity Silver Mine, South Tail, Twin Zone, Silbak Premier, South African, Nickel Plate Mine, Golden Sunlight, New Mexico, Queen Charlotte Islands, Reidel Pub, South Pit, Giant Mine, New York, Northwest Territories, Yukon Territory, Australasian Inst, Error Net, Estimated Au Accumulation, Keno Hill Camp New!
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The investment necessary to start a mine is on the order of tens to hundreds of millions of dollars. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
minimum mining width, blasthole data, average semivariogram value, inventory estimation, unbiased histogram, cutoff grade, geologic domains, geologic continuity, multiple indicator kriging, ore continuity, principal grid directions, true block grades, relative semivariogram, average gamma value, lognormal subpopulations, blasthole assays, different semivariogram models, ore classed, outlier grades, square data array, bench composites, blasthole samples, mineral inventory, grade continuity, barren dyke Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British Columbia, Silver Queen, Equity Silver Mine, South Tail, Twin Zone, Silbak Premier, South African, Nickel Plate Mine, Golden Sunlight, New Mexico, Queen Charlotte Islands, Reidel Pub, South Pit, Giant Mine, New York, Northwest Territories, Yukon Territory, Australasian Inst, Error Net, Estimated Au Accumulation, Keno Hill Camp New!
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- Applied Mining Geology by A. J., Jr. Erickson on page 143
- Geostatistics Banff 2004 (Quantitative Geology and Geostatistics) by Oy Leuangthong on page 314
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