Core recovery and quality: Important factors in mineral resource estimation

Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Section B: Applied Earth Science

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 305-312

  Annels, A E ^a   Dominy, S C ^b  

^a SRK CONSULTING   (South Africa)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Core quality; Core recovery; Mineral resource estimation

Indexed keywords

CORE LOGGING; ESTIMATION METHOD; MINERAL RESOURCE;

EID: 0942267343     PISSN: 03717453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/037174503225011306     Document Type: Article

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