Professor Danie Krige’s First Memorial Lecture: The Basic Tenets of Evaluating the Mineral Resource Assets of Mining Companies, as Observed in Professor Danie Krige’s Pioneering Work Over Half a Century

Abstract

This paper provides a write-up of the first Professor Danie Krige memorial lecture in 2014, which was organised by the University of the Witwatersrand in collaboration with the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (SAIMM) and the Geostatistical Association of Southern Africa, where his wife Mrs Ansie Krige, the SAIMM and Professor R.C.A. Minnitt also spoke. The memorial lecture was presented by his previous PhD graduate student, Dr Winfred Assibey-Bonsu.

During that inaugural memorial lecture, the SAIMM highlighted three activities that the institute would hold going forward, so as to remember this great South African mining pioneer:

• The publication of a Danie Krige Commemorative Volume of the SAIMM Journal

• An annual Danie Krige Memorial Lecture to be facilitated by the School of Mining Engineering of the University of the Witwatersrand

• The annual award of a Danie Krige medal

What follows is both a tribute to his work and a testimony to the great man’s deep personal integrity, belief in family, humility and faith in Christ, all of which led him to become not only a giant in the South African mining industry but indeed worldwide.

The paper was first published by the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy during the Danie Krige Geostatistical Conference, Johannesburg, 2015.