Mar 10 2025 15 mins 3
In this episode, Ian Glacken our Executive Consultant in Perth, Australia discusses the thorny and divisive topic about whether we should be trying to minimise conditional bias in an estimate or should we be striving for a better idea of grade/tonnage relationship at the time of mining? Ian is joined in this discussion by Graeme Lyall our Executive Consultant who is based in Santiago, and Dr Oscar Rondon, Principal Geostatistician Datamine.
1:26 This podcast video at a glance
3:03 What is conditional bias
4:19 Schools of thought about conditional bias
6:19 The kriging oxymoron
7:00 The least of 2 evils
7:47 Important difference between the 2 schools of thought
8:40 Conditional bias and smoothing
11:42 What is KNA?
15:00 Discrete Gaussian method
Suggested papers to read.
D.G Krige - A practical Analysis of the effects of spatial structure and of data available and accessed, on conditional biases in ordinary kriging.
Quantitative kriging neighbourhood analysis for the mining geologist - A description of the method with worked case examples by J.Vann, S. Jackson and Olivier Bertoli.
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