Probabilistic Estimates of Number of Undiscovered Deposits and Their Total Tonnages in Permissive Tracts Using Deposit Densities

Natural Resources Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 89-93

  Singer, Donald A ^a   Kouda, Ryoichi ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

mineral deposit density; Quantitative mineral resource assessment; Undiscovered resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955932111     PISSN: 15207439     EISSN: 15738981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11053-011-9137-1     Document Type: Article

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