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Skip to Search Results- 1Boisvert, Jeff (Mining)
- 1Boisvert, Jeffery (Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering)
- 1Clayton Deutsch (Mining Engineering-Geostatistics)
- 1Deutsch, Clayton (Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering)
- 1Deutsch, Clayton (Mining)
- 1Luckert, Marty (Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology)
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Fall 2023
Final estimates at the grade-control (GC) stage of mining are built to maximize the correct classificationof mineable blocks. The costs include drilling, mining, and processing. When consideringdedicated GC drilling, Drill-hole spacing (DHS) optimization for profit balances the cost of...
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Fall 2018
Widely spaced data sets from drilling are used in the mining and petroleum industries to model subsurface resources. These data sets have high associated economic and environmental costs. Maximizing the use of information contained in data while minimizing the amount of data required to achieve...
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Spring 2015
Resource evaluation of a mineral deposit is an important and challenging task. Traditional estimation methods provide a best estimate at the block scale based on available data. The pitfalls of histogram smoothing and conditional bias associated with these methods are well known. Quantifying...
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Fall 2023
This thesis is composed of three studies. First study (Gold Mining and Disparities in Indigenous Infant Health in the Brazilian Amazon): Regulations in mining industries can mitigate environmental pollution and health risks. The health of indigenous communities may be disproportionately harmed by...
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Fall 2023
Coal mining in Alberta has proven to be a controversial and heated topic in the past few years. The decision of the Government of Alberta to rescind the 1976 Coal Policy in 2020 provided a new context for coal mining in the province. The future of coal mining in Alberta is complicated by national...