Valuation of primary diamond deposits by extreme value statistics

Economic Geology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 841-854

  Caers, Jef ^a   Rombouts, Luc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Terraconsult   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND; EXTREME VALUE THEORY; MINERAL RESOURCES; RESOURCE ESTIMATION;

EID: 0030441534     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsecongeo.91.5.841     Document Type: Article

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