Influence of the ore block model estimation on the determination of the mining cutoff grade policy for sustainable mine production

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1409-1418

  Bascetin, Atac ^a   Tuylu, Serkan ^a   Nieto, Antonio ^b  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cut off grade; Grade tonnage distribution; Inverse distance; Nearest neighbor

Indexed keywords

CUT-OFF GRADE; CUT-OFF GRADE POLICY; ECONOMIC PARAMETERS; GEOLOGICAL SETTING; GRADE-TONNAGE DISTRIBUTION; INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUES; INVERSE DISTANCE; MINE PLANNING; MINE PRODUCTION; MINING OPERATIONS; MINING PROJECTS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR METHOD; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; ORE BLOCK; RISK IMPACT;

INTERPOLATION; MINING; ORE DEPOSITS; ORE SAMPLING; ORES; RISK PERCEPTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; INDUSTRIAL POLICY; INTERPOLATION; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MINING; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORE BODY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 80053942739     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-0965-4     Document Type: Review

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