Danie G. Krige
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Danie G. Krige (Daniel Gerhardus Krige), is a South African Mining Engineer who pioneered the field of geostatistics and, until recently, professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Republic of South Africa. The technique of kriging is named after him. Krige's empirical work to evaluate mineral resources [1] was formalised in the 1960s by French engineer Georges Matheron[2]
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- ^ Krige, Danie G. (1951). "A statistical approach to some basic mine valuation problems on the Witwatersrand". J. of the Chem., Metal. and Mining Soc. of South Africa 52 (6): 119-139.
- ^ Matheron, Georges (1962). Traité de géostatistique appliquée. Editions Technip..
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