Teaching

I teach geostatistics and mining geology at Polytechnique Montréal, in the courses GLQ3401 — Geostatistics and Mining Geology and GLQ3651 — Mining Geology. The course notes are open access and updated each term. The book is written in French.

Open the course notes

Course notes — Geostatistics and Mining Geology

Thirteen chapters in three parts, with appendices.

Part I — Mining geology

  1. NI 43-101 Technical Report and the Mining Act
  2. Economic aspects
  3. Gy’s sampling theory and quality control
  4. Processing and statistical analysis of drilling data
  5. Deterministic methods for resource estimation

Part II — Linear geostatistics

  1. Introduction to geostatistics
  2. The variogram
  3. Block, dispersion and estimation variance
  4. Kriging

Part III — Non-linear geostatistics

  1. Multivariate geostatistics
  2. Indicator kriging
  3. Geostatistical simulation of continuous variables
  4. Geostatistical simulation of categorical variables

Appendices

  • A — Linear algebra: vectors and planes
  • B — Probability and statistics
  • C — Standard normal distribution table
  • D — Charts: dispersion variances
  • E — Charts: estimation variances
  • G — Mathematical notation