Simulation of mineral grades with hard and soft conditioning data: application to a porphyry copper deposit

DOI10.1007/S10596-008-9106-XzbMATH Open1171.86377OpenAlexW1977759147MaRDI QIDQ732185FDOQ732185

Authors: Xavier Emery, Lucía N. Robles 

Publication date: 9 October 2009

Published in: Computational Geosciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10533/142481

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zbMATH Keywords

geostatisticsGibbs samplerconditional simulationspatial trendssoft conditioning data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geostatistics (86A32) Computational methods for problems pertaining to geophysics (86-08)

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• Integration of uncertain data in geostatistical modelling
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• GSLIB

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