Obituary Danie Krige - South Africa’s Giant of Geostatistics
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- Created: Wednesday, 15 May 2013 00:32
Johannesburg.
While his name may not be familiar to many people outside the field, so new and revolutionary were his ideas – applying mathematical statistics to the spatial evaluation of orebodies – that the processes he developed were named after him, becoming known in the industry as ‘kriging’. This technique has helped improve ore evaluation methods and reduce the financial risk of investing in mining projects.
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