The course content addresses the following topics:
- Covers basic technical skills for estimating grade and quantity of raw materials prior to mineral development and extraction.
- Provides essential knowledge, including an introduction to geostatistical methods in mineral evaluation.
- Emphasizes reporting mineral resources and ore reserves in compliance with internationally accepted codes of practice.
- Examines issues with inverse distance estimation techniques and introduces geostatistical estimation theory.
- Teaches compilation and application of experimental and model semi-variograms for point estimation.
- Explores geostatistical estimation methods, including the principles of Ordinary Kriging.
- Covers cross-validation to test the validity of semi-variograms.
- Applies theory to estimate average grades in selective mining units or blocks in an orebody.
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