Characterizing the mineralogical variability of a Chilean copper deposit using plurigaussian simulations

Journal of The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 111-119

  Betzhold, J ^a   Roth, C ^b  

^a ANGLO AMERICAN PLC   (South Africa)

^b CENTRE DE GÉOSCIENCES   (France)

Author keywords

Conditional simulation; Copper variability; Geostatistics; Indicators; Plurigaussian method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348000948     PISSN: 0038223X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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