Applied Mineral Inventory Estimation
Applied Mineral Inventory Estimation
Garston H. Blackwell, Queen's University, Ontario
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USDApplied 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 a 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 practical 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. It will also be valuable for professional mining engineers, geological engineers and geologists working with mineral exploration and mining companies.
- Only comprehensive and applied textbook on this topic
- Authors are very experienced teachers of this topic in universities and mining industry
- Many practical examples, illustrations and problem sets
Reviews & endorsements
"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
Product details
January 2006Paperback
9780521021821
400 pages
246 × 189 × 21 mm
0.71kg
207 b/w illus. 68 tables 76 exercises
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Table of Contents
- 1. Mineral inventory: an overview
- 2. Geological control of mineral inventory estimation
- 3. Continuity
- 4. Statistical concepts in mineral inventory estimation: an overview
- 5. Data and data quality
- 6. Exploratory data evaluation
- 7. Outliers
- 8. An introduction to geostatistical concepts
- 9. Spatial analysis: an introduction to semivariograms
- 10. Kriging
- 11. Global reserve/resource estimation
- 12. Grade-Tonnage curves
- 13. Local estimation of resources/reserves
- 14. Simulation: an introduction to conditional simulation
- 15. Bulk density
- 16. Dilution
- 17. Geostatistics and reality
- 18. Reserve/resource classification
- 19. Metal accounting
- Bibliography
- Appendices: A.1. British and international measurement systems: conversion
- A.2. US Standard sieves
- A.3. Drill hole and core diameters
- Index.
