Mineral resource estimation has changed considerably in the past 25 years: geostatistical techniques have become commonplace and continue to evolve; computational horsepower has revolutionized all facets of numerical modeling; mining and processing operations are often larger; and uncertainty quantification is becoming standard practice. Recent books focus on historical methods or details of ge…
This second editions builds on the first with an expanded and more comprehensive treatment, consistent reservoir example, expanded prerequisites, concepts, algorithms, and applications. The preparition of this much expanded text provided an opportunity to modernize the presentation eith the exciting new developments from the past decade and improve the linkages to the geology. Descriptions of t…