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This chapter presents a few real-life examples of different types of Mineral Resource Estimation and Geostatistical studies. They are intended to illustrate some of the techniques described in the book, but are not exhaustive in scope or content.
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In subsequent years this modeling methodology was upgraded to a full MIK estimation of the above-TOS units.
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Rossi, M., Deutsch, C. (2014). Case Studies. In: Mineral Resource Estimation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5717-5_14
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