Bibliography
The purpose of this bibliography is to detail some papers and books which might
assist the ‘new’ reader to pursue the theory and applications of
geostatistics. The references have been split by sub-headings to give a clearer
notion of what the reader should hope to get from them.
1. Good introductory papers
These are
fairly rare, and confined to the efforts of a few authors.
P. I. Brooker has published a few, such as:
‘Robustness of geostatistical calculations: a case study’,
1977.
Proc. Australasian
Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, vol. 264, pp. 61-8.
A. G. Royle is another good author, mostly publishing in the Transactions of the Institution of
Mining and Metallurgy. One of his most recent papers is:
‘Global
estimates of ore reserves’, 1977, vol. 86, pp. A9-17.
A. J. Sinclair
has turned out two or three widely available papers, all concerned with
explaining the application of geostatistics to particular deposits. Two such are:
‘A geostatistical study of the Eagle copper vein,
‘Geostatistical investigation
of the Kutcho Creek deposit,
2. Definitive volumes
Matheron, G. The Theory of
Regionalised Variables and its Applications, 1971, Cahier No. 5, Centre de Morphologie Mathématique
de Fontainebleau, 211 pp.
David, M. Geostatistical
Guarascio, M., David, M. and Huijbregts, C. (Eds) Advanced Geostatistics in the Mining
Industry,
1976, D. Reidel,
Journel, A.
G. and Huijbregts, C. Mining Geostatistics, 1978, Academic Press,
600pp.
3. Other introductory texts
Rendu, J-M. An Introduction to Geostatistical
Methods of Mineral Evaluation, Monograph of the South African Inst. Min. Metall, 1978, 100 pp.
Royle, A. G. A Practical
Introduction to Geostatistics. Course Notes of the
4. Other applications
Clark, M. W.
and Thornes, J. B. Forwards Estimation from Incomplete Data by the
Theory of Regionalised Variables, Non-Sequential Water Quality Records Project: Working
Paper No. 4, 1975, LSE, 9pp.
Delhomme, J. P. and Delfiner, P. Application du
krigeage a l’optimisation d’une compagne pluviometrique en zone aride, Symposium on the Design of Water Resources Projects
with Inadequate Data, 1973,
Huijbregts, C. Courbes d’isovariance
en cartographie automatique Colloque
sur la Visualisation, 1971, Nancy (Ecole National Superieure de Geologie), 11 pp.
Olea, R. A. ‘Optimal contour mapping using universal kriging’, J. Geophys
Res, 1974, vol. 79, No. 5, pp. 696-702.
Poissonet, M., Millier, C. and Serra, J. Morphologie mathematique
et silviculture, 1970, 3ieme Conference
du groupe des Staticiens Forestiers,
5. Historical perspective
de Wijs, H. J. ‘Method of successive
differences applied to mine sampling’, Trans. Inst. Min. Metall., 1972, vol. 81, No.
788, pp. A129-32.
Journel, A. G.
‘Geostatistics and sequential exploration’, Mining Engineering, 1973, vol. 25, No. 10,
pp.44-8.
Krige, D. G. ‘A statistical approach to some basic mine valuation
problems on the
Matheron, G.
‘Principles of geostatistics’, Economic Geology, 1963, vol. 58, pp. 1246-66.
Sichel, H. S. The estimation of means and
associated confidence limits for small samples from lognormal populations, Symposium on
mathematical statistics computer applications in ore valuation, S. Afr. Inst. Min. Metall, 1966, pp.
106-23.
6. Author’s papers
These papers
have been published to assist workers who wish to apply geostatistics to their
own problems, and who wish to use a computer and/or numerical approximations.
‘Some auxiliary functions for the spherical model of
geostatistics’, Computers and Geosciences, 1976, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 255-63.
‘Some
practical computational aspects of mine planning’, in Advanced Geostatistics in the Mining
Industry,
ed. M. Guarascio et al., 1976, pp. 391-9, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland.
‘Practical
kriging in three dimensions’, Computers and Geosciences, 1977, Vol. 3, No. 1,
pp. 173-80.
‘Regularisation of a
semi-variogram’, Computers and Geosciences, 1977, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 341-6.
7. Some useful journals to watch or read
The following
Journals often contain papers on Geostatistics and related topics. Added to
this list should be the Transactions or Proceedings of the numerous
‘Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy’, such as those of the
Mathematical Geology
Computers and Geosciences
Economic Geology
Water Resources
Research
Engineering and Mining
Journal
Publications of the Kansas Geological Survey, especially the series on Spatial Analysis.
Proceedings of the annual Applications of Computers in the Minerals Industry (APCOM), various venues.
Canadian
Inst. Min. Metall. Special Volumes.