PUBLICATIONS
"Evaluation of Skewed Exploration
Data", Proc. IUPAC Int. Symp. Anal. Chem. Johannesburg, South Africa (1976).
C.O. Ingamells, F.F. Pitard.
"Sampling Practices in the
American Industry: What they are and what they should be". Presented at
the SME Fall Meeting. St. Louis, Missouri - September 7-10, 1986.
"Sampling of Trace Elements:
In the environment, ores and products, and high purity materials".
Presented at the SME Fall Meeting. St. Louis, Missouri - September 7-10, 1986.
"The Variographic
Experiment: An Essential Test for Optimizing Sampling Methodology in Monitoring
Streams". Chemical and Biological Characterization of Sludges, Sediments,
Dredge Spoils, and Drilling Muds, ASTM STP 976. Philadelphia, 1987, pp. 44-58.
"Applied Geochemical
Analysis". C.O. Ingamells and F.F. Pitard. Wiley Interscience Division,
John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1986. 733 pages textbook.
- "Pierre Gy's
Sampling Theory and Sampling Practice". Written for Short courses.
- Volume 1:
Heterogeneity and Sampling
- Volume 2:
Sampling Correctness and Sampling Practice
- Published by CRC Press, Inc.
1989. 2000 Corporate Blvd., N.W. Boca Raton, Florida 33431. Second
edition in 1993.
"Exploration of the Nugget
Effect". Geostatistics for the Next Century: An International Forum in
Honour of Michel David's Contribution to Geostatistics, Montreal, 1993. Edited by
Roussos Dimitrakopoulos, McGill University, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston.
“A Strategy to Minimise Ore
Grade Reconciliation Problems Between the Mine and the Mill”, Mine to Mill 1998
Conference, Brisbane, October, 11-14 1998. The Australian Institute of Mining and
Metallurgy.
“Practical Statistical Tools
for Managers”, Metallurgical Plant Design and Operating Strategies Conference,
Sydney, April, 15-16 2002. The Australasian Institute of Mining and
Metallurgy.
“Practical and Theoretical
Difficulties When Sampling Gold”, Mineral Processing Plant Design, Control and
Practice Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 20-24, 2002, Society for Mining,
Metallurgy and Exploration, Inc. and Canadian Mineral Processors of the Canadian Institute
of Metallurgy.
"The Auditing Process in Sampling
for Ore Reserve Estimations", 2003, prepared for the Committee of ore reserves at the
Institute of Mining of Chile.
"Effects of Residual Variances on
the Estimation of the Variance of the Fundamental Error", Chemometrics and
Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 50 years of Pierre Gy's Theory of Sampling - Proceedings:
First World Conference on Sampling and Blending (WCSB1), August 19-20, 2003, Esbjerg,
Denmark.
"Automated Sampling Systems to
Minimize Mine-Mill Conciliation Problems", Santiago, Chile, April 18-21, 2004,
International Conference in Mining Innovation, MININ 2004.
"New Sampling Technologies for Ore
Grade Control, Metallurgical Accounting and Laboratory Preparation", Metallurgical
Plant Design and Operating Strategies Conference, Perth, Australia, September 6-7, 2004,
The AusIMM.
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