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The chapter reviews the non-geostatistical estimation methods, the most common of them, are polygonal, triangulation, cross-sectional and estimation by the panels (blocking). Another method which also described here is inverse distance weighting (IDW) technique. This is the most advanced technique among the non-geostatistical methods and methodology of its application is explained in details. It is noted, that methodology of IDW technique has many similarities with Ordinary kriging.
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Abzalov, M. (2016). Resource Estimation Methods. In: Applied Mining Geology. Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39264-6_16
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