Using PETRIMES to estimate mercury deposits in California |
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Authors: | Lee P J Singer Donald A |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Sedimentary and Petrolenum Geology, Geological Survey of Canada, 3303-33rd Street N.W., T2L 2A7 Calgary, Alberta, Canada;(2) U.S. Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, M.S. 984, 94025 Menlo Park, California, USA |
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Abstract: | In this article, we examine the use of an unconventional procedure, PETRIMES, to estimate mineral resources of mercury deposits in California. The study, which is based on the nonparametric discovery process model and Q-Q plots, suggests that a lognormal distribution is appropriate for the mercury deposits in California. The results of the assessment are summarized as follows: (1) the total number of mercury deposits in the population is approximately 165; (2) the median value of the largest undiscovered deposit size is 487 flasks; (3) the mean of the remaining mercury potential is 2,500 flasks; and (4) the population resource ranges from 1,040,000 to 4,300,000 flasks (at a 0.9 probability level). |
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Keywords: | Mineral resource assessment Size-biased sampling Nonparametric Lognormal PETRIMES |
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