Aspects of Regional and Worldwide Mineral Resource Prediction

Abstract

The purpose of this contribution is to highlight four topics of regional and worldwide mineral resource prediction: (1) use of the jackknife for bias elimination in regional mineral potential assessments; (2) estimating total amounts of metal from mineral potential maps; (3) fractal/multifractal modeling of mineral deposit density data in permissive areas; and (4) worldwide and large-areas metal size-frequency distribution modeling. The techniques described in this paper remain tentative because they have not been widely researched and applied in mineral potential studies. Although most of the content of this paper has previously been published, several perspectives for further research are suggested.

Keywords

Mineral resource prediction / jackknife method / multifractals / worldwide and regional metal size-frequency distributions

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