Aspects of Regional and Worldwide Mineral Resource Prediction

• 来源期刊: 地球科学学刊（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（2）
• 所属期刊栏目: Special Issue on Digital Geosciences and Quantitative Exploration of Mineral Resources
• 页码范围: 279-287
• 页数: 9页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

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 re-searched 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.