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Mar 2001
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Tetsuya Shoji. Grade-Tonnage, Ore Value-Tonnage, and Enrichment Ratio-Tonnage Models for Resource Assessment. Journal of Earth Science, 2001, 12(1): 45-53.
Citation: Tetsuya Shoji. Grade-Tonnage, Ore Value-Tonnage, and Enrichment Ratio-Tonnage Models for Resource Assessment. Journal of Earth Science, 2001, 12(1): 45-53.

Grade-Tonnage, Ore Value-Tonnage, and Enrichment Ratio-Tonnage Models for Resource Assessment

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  • Received Date: 27 Feb 2001
  • Accepted Date: 15 Mar 2001
  • According to grade-tonnage diagrams of nickel and zinc deposits, their critical grades are 0.4% and 3.4%, respectively, and hence the former resources can be considered optimistic and the latter pessimistic. The grade-tonnage diagram of gold deposits is convex downwards suggesting that the critical grade is 1×10-6 in the low-grade part. The ore value (OV)-tonnage diagram of all deposits In the world consists of three parts: high, middle and low vain f classes. The enrichment ratio (ER)-tonnage diagram of all deposits in the world ho consists of three parts: high, middle and low ratio classes.Nine quality categories defined by ER and OV are characterized by some keywords indicating deposit types as follows: category RH (high ER-high OV: 0.7%) by "unconformity" and "Mississippi Val-ley", category HM (high ER-middle: OV: 0.7%) by "vein", category ML (middle ER-low OV: 0%) by "sandstone", "stockwork" and" dissemination", category LM by "orthomagmatic", " laterite", komatiite and " chemical", and category LL by "porphyry", "dissemination" and "placer". Category MM is not characterized by any keyword. If the commodities of a deposit are defined by both the enrichment ratio and the ore value, the defined commodities are relatively coincident for gold and nickel, but different for copper, silver and zinc, and greatly different for molybdenum and lead. Deposits containing lead and/or zinc are complimentary. If the commodity Ph+Zn is applied, most lead or zinc deposits are classified as Ph+Zu by both definitions. Accessory metals are commonly expected for deposits of kuroko-type zinc, epithermal silver, massive sulfide-type zinc and volcanogenic zinc, but uncommon for deposits of orthomagmatic chromium, chemically precipitated copper and sandstone-type uranium.

     

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