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Recoverable Resources: Estimation

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Mineral Resource Estimation

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The prediction of the tonnages and grade of ore recoverable with a particular mining plan is a central problem in mineral resource estimation. The conventional approach to this problem is to estimate the mineral grade for volumes relevant to the mining plan and base the recoverable resource calculations on those estimates. Details of that approach are presented in this Chapter.

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  1. Geosystems International, Inc., Delray Beach, Florida, USA

    Mario E. Rossi

  2. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Clayton V. Deutsch

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Rossi, M., Deutsch, C. (2014). Recoverable Resources: Estimation. In: Mineral Resource Estimation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5717-5_8

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