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- 48Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of /Theses and Dissertations
- 1Helmholtz-Alberta Initiative
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- 1Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Program
- 1Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Program/Journal Articles (Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering)
- 13Deutsch, Clayton (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 3Deutsch, Clayton V. (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 2Deutsch, Clayton (Mining Engineering)
- 2Jeff Boisvert (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 1Askari-Nasab, Hooman (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- 1Askari-Nasab,Hooman (School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering)
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Spring 2023
This thesis sets out a workflow to quantify uncertainty of the Arrow Deposit, a tabular, vein type, high-grade, basement-hosted, uranium deposit located on NexGen Energy Limited’s 100%-owned Rook I property in northern Saskatchewan. The uncertainty associated with the volume, grade, and density...
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Comparison of 2D and 3D uncertainty quantification in geostatistical modeling in stratigraphic formations
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Under suitable geological conditions and depending on the modeling goals at the project’s current phase, a geological modeler could justifiably choose to estimate natural resource concentrations by building geostatistical models on a 2D grid rather than a 3D grid. While the application of these...
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Fall 2023
Calculating and modeling a variogram from sparsely sampled data can be complex and time-consuming due to the need for expertise in selecting the appropriate parameters and fitting functions to the experimental variogram. To assist with variogram modeling, a novel approach based on Convolutional...
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Fall 2023
In general, less than one billionth of the volume of a deposit is sampled before production decisions. The grades and other rock properties are estimated in the unsampled volume. The success of a mine is dependent on accurate grade control. The grade control process establishes the final planned...
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Addressing Order Relation Issues with Constrained Radial Basis Functions and Consistent Indicator Variograms
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Quantifying uncertainty is a critical task of resource delineation in the mining industry. Uncertainty is used to assess risk in economic evaluation and for classification in resource reporting. The inference of local distributions from conditioning data is key to quantifying uncertainty....
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Fall 2022
Quantifying uncertainty is key to rational decision‐making in a geological context. Samples collected for Mineral Exploration are usually sparse and only represent a very small portion of the volume that might be mined in the future. To characterize and quantify geological uncertainty, it is...
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Spring 2022
Hydraulically fractured horizontal wells are widely adopted for the development of tight or shale gas reservoirs. The presence of highly heterogeneous, multi-scale, fracture systems often renders any detailed characterization of the fracture properties challenging. The discrete fracture network...
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Spring 2022
Geostatistical modeling takes geological data as inputs and builds statistical models for resource prediction. Geostatistics consists of several components, including preprocessing, modeling, and postprocessing. Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is an early step in preprocessing. It provides...
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Spring 2021
Different quantities of information are available at various stages of the development of a mining project. Consequential decisions are made given the data available at the time. Geological uncertainty due to sparse data presents economic risks. The collection of additional information reduces...
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Advances in Kriging-Based Modelling Approaches of Winter Weather Vehicular Collisions – A Region-Wide Geostatistical Investigation
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The winter season is known for brisk cold weather and beautiful snowfalls, but it is also known for deteriorated driving conditions to where the risk of collisions becomes a major issue that plagues many municipalities around the world. As such, agencies are tasked with and strive to prioritize...