The course explores fundamental Geostatistical concepts and their practical application in addressing challenges related to mineral exploration, with a particular emphasis on estimating the ore reserves of a mineral deposit. Topics include data acquisition, database preparation, geological modeling, and statistical analysis of exploration data. Special emphasis is placed on non-parametric statistics, spatial correlation, variogram modeling, and estimation algorithms such as Kriging. Students explore structural analysis of deposits, calculation of variograms, and evaluation of estimation errors through grade-tonnage curves. Upon successful completion of the course, students will possess knowledge of the tools and techniques of Geostatistics and how they are applied to achieve specific goals. They will be able to analyze and process the available exploration data, integrating the results into a unified numerical block model, and implementing the numerical block model using Excel, the R programming language, as well as specialized commercial software.
- Teacher: Κωνσταντίνος Μόδης
ECTS : 0
Study Load : 2
Language : el, en