Spring Courses :: Mineral Resource Estimation

June 24-25 | 2-Days Course | Online

OBJECTIVE

This course is an introductory mining geostatistics course for resource estimation. Learn the fundamental concepts of geostatistics to estimate your resources confidently.

COURSE CONTENT

· Overview of mineral resource estimation procedures.

· The key advantage of integrating geostatistics: why do we use it?

· Exploratory data analysis – Summary statistics, uni-bivariate analysis.

· Stationarity and domaining

· Quantification of grade spatial variability: calculation and interpretation of the variogram (experimental variogram, variogram cloud, variogram map).

· Kriging: Principles and properties.

· Kriging in practice, including Kriging Neighborhood Analysis (KNA), Nested neighbourhood and cross-validation.

· Validation.

PREREQUISITES

None. This course is an ideal introduction to practical mining geostatistics.

CAD 2,800

USD 2,040