Despite an ever-increasing number of spaceborne, airborne, and ground-based data
acquisition platforms, remote sensing data are still often spatially incomplete or temporally …

Simulation is the fastest develo** branch of geostatistics and simulating facies inside
reservoirs and orebodies is the most exciting part of this. Several methods have been …

This paper addresses the problem of simulating the copper grade and rock type in a Chilean
porphyry copper deposit recognized by a set of exploration drill holes. The application of …

Identifying quantitative sources and hazardous areas of heavy metals is a crucial issue for
soil management. For this purpose, an integrated approach composed of finite mixture …

Mineral deposits are metal enrichment anomalies, occurring as local manifestations of the
interplay between various geological processes that operate at a wide range of temporal …

This book covers the main mining issues where geostatistics, a discipline founded in the
1960s to study regionalized variables measured at a limited number of points in space, is …

This work deals with the joint simulation of copper grade (as a continuous regionalized
variable) and rock type (as a categorical variable) in Lince–Estefanía deposit, located in …

A critical challenge in evaluating mineral resources is to model the uncertainty of geological
boundaries and to classify the block model into domains of similar rock or ore types. The aim …

Mineral resources are estimated to establish potential orebody with acceptable quality
(grade) and quantity (tonnage) to validate investment. Estimating mineral resources is …

The integration of geological and geometallurgical data can significantly improve decision-
making and optimize mining production due to a better understanding of the resources and …