{"id":783,"date":"2023-05-09T11:03:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T16:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.intermetperu.com\/?p=783"},"modified":"2023-05-26T11:35:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:35:53","slug":"sampling-theory-sampling-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intermetperu.com\/en\/cursos-digitales\/sampling-theory-sampling-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"SAMPLING THEORY, SAMPLING PRACTICES – MISTAKES TO AVOID AND OPPORTUNITIES TO GRAB"},"content":{"rendered":"
Poor sampling, compounded by poor laboratory subsampling, leads to questionable geostatistics, and generates severe conciliation problems between the geological model, the mine, and the plant estimates. These problems also affect the price of commodities and the validity of environmental assessments. The result is a huge money loss for the company involved, evolving later in likely litigation. It is of key importance for geologists, miners, metallurgists, chemists, and environmental specialists to extract maximum information from the available data, as large investments and crucial decisions depend on it. False evaluations lead to devastating scenarios such as:<\/p>
It is critical to quantify the heterogeneity of important constituents in any new property. Failure to do appropriate testing leads to invalid sampling and subsampling protocols, excess drilling, and a biased database that would later lead to false geostatistics. The following sequence is part of an inescapable practice:<\/p>
The staggering cost of irrelevant data variability is not easy to detect, quantify, or correct. A strategy for effective management of variability will enable managers to identify and minimize annoying conciliation problems between theoretical models and reality: Your decisions are only as good as your samples!<\/p>
The course offers simple ways to quantify money losses for a given sampling precision, and it provides a good strategy to prevent sampling inaccuracy for which there is no statistical cure. Unless sampling precision and accuracy are clearly connected to economic issues, it is unlikely that managers would understand the need to improve sampling protocols and the way they are implemented. At the end of the course, attendees will be better equipped to present the economic advantages of good sampling. Thus, the course is a pre-requisite for bank investment: Bankers must listen and trust the Sampling Theory.<\/p>
Dr. Francis F. Pitard is a consulting expert in Sampling, Statistical Process Control and Total Quality Management. He is President of Francis Pitard Sampling Consultants (www.fpscsampling.com) and Technical Director of Mineral Stats Inc. (www.mineralstats.com) in Broomfield, Colorado USA. He provides consulting services in many countries. Dr. Pitard has six years of experience with the French Atomic Energy Commission and fifteen years with Amax Extractive R&D. He taught Sampling Theory, SPC, and TQM for the Continuing Education offices of the Colorado School of Mines, the Australian Mineral Foundation, for the Mining Department of the University of Chile, and the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. He has a Doctorate of Technology from Aalborg University in Denmark. He is the recipient of the prestigious Pierre Gy\u2019s Gold Medal for excellence in promoting and teaching the Theory of Sampling (Cape Town, South Africa, 2009). Consultant of InterMet for Peru. Chairman of II Mineral Sampling Congress to be held in Lima on September 2021.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t