Abstract

ASSIBEY-BONSU, W.. The basic tenets of evaluating the Mineral Resource assets of mining companies, as observed through Professor Danie Krige's pioneering work over half a century. J. S. Afr. Inst. Min. Metall. [online]. 2016, vol.116, n.7, pp.635-643. ISSN 2411-9717.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2411-9717/2016/v116n7a5.

This paper constitutes a write-up of the first Professor Danie Krige memorial lecture in 2014, which was organized 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, at which his wife, Mrs Ansie Krige, the SAIMM, and Professor RCA 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 undertake 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 at 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 a giant not only in the South African mining industry, but indeed worldwide

Keywords : geostatistics; kriging; conditional bias; block model; regionalized variables; regression; ore evaluation.

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