Fundamental issues in quantitative estimation of mineral resources

Nonrenewable Resources

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 281-292

  Pan, Guocheng ^a   Harris, DeVerle P ^b   Heiner, Tim ^a  

^a NERCO Exploration Co ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Information synthesis; Mineral resource estimation; Mineral target

Indexed keywords

DATA INTEGRATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; MINERAL RESOURCES; RESOURCES ESTIMATION;

EID: 0027098796     PISSN: 09611444     EISSN: 15738981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01782693     Document Type: Article

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