Effects of search parameters on kriged reserve estimates |
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| Authors: | Abdullah Arik |
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| Institution: | (1) Mintec, Inc., PO Box 31420, 85751 Tucson, Arizona, USA |
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| Abstract: | Summary Reliable ore reserve estimates for deposits with highly skewed grade distributions are difficult tasks to perform. Although some recent geostatistical techniques are available to handle problems with these estimations, ordinary kriging or conventional interpolation methods are still widely used to estimate the ore reserves for such deposits. The estimation results can be very sensitive to the search parameters used during the interpolation of grades with these methods.This paper compares the ore reserve estimates from ordinary kriging using several cases in which certain search parameters are varied. The comparisons are extended to different mineralizations to show the changing effects of these parameters. |
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| Keywords: | Geostatistics kriging ore reserve estimation |
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