The course content addresses the following topics:
- Management and quality control of broken ore sampling.
- Definition of the fundamental sampling error
- Simple models in the case of complete liberation of the element of interest;
- Binominal and Poisson models;
- Various forms of Gy's formula;
- Practical implementation of Gy's formula and nomograms;
- Critiques and extension of Gy's formula;
- Links with geostatistics through sampling error and nugget effect of variograms.
- Role and responsibility of Mineral Resource Evaluators in the sampling process in order to control variance at source.
- Students will be required to develop a protocol for their own operation, on completion.