新的监管环境下矿产资源及其不确定性的地质统计学评价

1 引言

(1) The Practice of Mineral Resources Estimation Within the Context of the New Regulatory Environment

• Resource models and the mining business cycle
• Meeting the definition of mineral resources and mineral reserves
• International standards for public reporting
• The place of geological uncertainty in mineral resources reporting

• Scientific and engineering modelling as a discipline
• Uncertainty and error
• Computer simulation

• Geological data acquisition
• Elements of sampling theory
• Quality Assurance and Quality Control

• Stationarity, heterogeneity, spatial dependence
• The random field paradigm
• The support effect
• Short vs. long term models
• Designing an effective resource modelling process
• Incorporating geological controls of mineralization beyond 3D wireframing

• The geological setting
• Geological interpretation and modelling
• Coordinate transformations
• Resource domains and trends

• Representative statistics in a geological context
• Univariate and multivariate statistical characterization
• Comparative statistics for different domains and data types
• Identification and treatment of outliers

• Measures of spatial continuity in a geological context
• Interpretation and modelling of variograms
• Spatial continuity and change of support

• Estimation is more than interpolation
• From point to block estimation
• Modern estimation methods
• Multivariate estimation
• Conditional bias and design of the estimation plan
• Validation of estimated models

• From estimation to simulation
• Simulation methods for categorical and continuous variables
• Multivariate simulations
• Validation of simulated models
• Post-processing and application of simulated models y 
• Quantitative geological uncertainty assessment
• Introduction to Value of Information studies

• Definitions

• Integrating quantitative and qualitative classification criteria

• The role of geological uncertainty in classification 

• Best practices and applications of technical and economic constraints

• Integrating geological uncertainty to production planning and risk quantification
• Less risk and higher value
• Geological risk in mineral value chain optimization

• The information effect
• Reconciliation
• Modelling of geotechnical and geometallurgical variables