Typing mineral deposits using their grades and tonnages in an artificial neural network

Natural Resources Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 201-208

  Singer, Donald A ^a   Kouda, Ryoichi ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Classification; Grade and tonnage models; Mineral resource assessment; Probabilistic neural network

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845594812     PISSN: 15207439     EISSN: 15738981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025128021384     Document Type: Conference Paper

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