Danie G. Krige

Danie Gerhardus Krige ( born August 26, 1919 in the Free State province, † March 3, 2013 in Johannesburg) was a South African Geostatistiker, who was a professor at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. At the beginning of the 1950s, he developed the fundamentals of geostatistics based on empirical data from the gold mining industry. The technique of Kriging is named after him. Kriges empirical work to estimate mineral resources was formalized in the 1960s by Frenchman Georges Matheron.

In 1987, Daniel C. Jackling Krige the Prize of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration, 1998, he received the John FW Herschel Medal of the Royal Society of South Africa, which is awarded for outstanding achievements in science since 1983. From 1991 to 1993 he was president of the APCOM and from 1996 to 2000 he was a board member of the International Association of Mathematical Geosciences. He was an honorary member of the Council of the Geostatistical Association of Southern Africa. In 2012 he was awarded the Order of the Baobab in Silver.

Writings

  • 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, 1951
  • Geostatistics and the definition of Uncertainty. Trans Inst Mining Metallurgy 93: A41 -A47, 1984
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