Methods Of Mining Geology And Estimation Of Ore Reserves

Methods of Mining Geology and Estimation of Ore Reserves

This book covers extensive ground in the estimation of mineral resources/reserves. While covering the classic geometric methods of estimation, it extensively presents the modern statistical/geostatistical techniques of estimation. In doing so, the supporting mathematical/statistical background, essential to facilitating the understanding of modern techniques, is also included. All information presented in the book is supported by extensive explanatory diagrams. The book also covers mine planning/scheduling as well as the international codes for classification of ore reserves. This book will be of interest to all types of mining geologists, as it serves the interests of field geologists involved in surveying, drilling, and mapping as well as those who are responsible for field data analysis/interpretation and defining the geometry of orebodies. This book is a comprehensive standalone textbook which is useful for both students and as a source of reference for mining geologists.

Mineral Deposit Evaluation

Although aspects of mineral deposit evaluation advantages and disadvantages of each technique are covered in such texts as McKinstry (1948), so that a judgement can be made as to their Peters (1978), Reedman (1979) and Barnes applicability to a particular deposit and the min (1980), no widely available in-depth treatment of ing method proposed or used. Too often, a lack the subject has been presented. It is thus the of this expertise results in the ore-reserve calcula intention of the present book to produce a text tion being undertaken at head-office or, indeed, by the survey department on the mine, and being which is suitable for both undergraduate and treated as a 'number crunching' or geometric postgraduate students of mining geology and exercise divorced from geology. It is essential mining engineering and which, at the same time, that mine ore-reserves are calculated at the mine is of use to those already following a professional by those geologists who are most closely associ career in the mining industry. An attempt has ated with the local geology and who are thus best been made to present the material in such a way able to influence and/or constrain the calculation.

Methods of Mining Geology and Estimation of Ore Reserves