Geostatistics textbooks

Here's the deal! I'll review your favorite geostatistics textbook, point out where it strays from the straight and narrow of mathematical statistics, and post on this website which assumptions, decisions, dependencies and independencies, geostatistical models, variances and covariances, semi-variograms and semi-variance analysis, crumble under scientific scrutiny. Reviewed books are non-returnable!

When we were working on Precision Estimates for Ore Reserves we scrutinized David's Geostatistical Ore Reserve Estimation and Clark's Practical geostatistics to learn how these authors calculate confidence limits for metal contents and grades of ore reserves to quantify the risk associated with an intrinsically imprecise measurement chain. What we found out brought about an exhaustive examination of a bizarre variant of mathematical statistics. When a disgruntled student of Matheron's new science donated a copy of Journal and Huijbregts's Mining geostatistics, it became clear why geostatistics cannot possibly give unbiased confidence intervals and ranges for contents and grades of reserves.

What geostatistics did most effectively is convert barren rock and bogus grades into Bre-X's mind boggling phantom resource. It does just as well with a few widely spaced, high grade boreholes because most kriged estimates in the infinite set, defined by two or more independently measured values with different coordinates, converge on the arithmetic mean, irrespective of the distance between the selected coordinates of a kriged estimate and those of the measured values. In a text titled "Sampling and Statistics", I shall juxtapose mathematical statistics and geostatistics on the basis of numerical examples in these textbooks.

	Geostatistical ore reserve estimation M David Elsevier Scientific Publishing, Amsterdam 1977
	Mining Geostatistics, Journel, A G and Huijbregts, Ch J Academic Press, London 1978
	Practical geostatistics Clark, I Applied Science Publishers, London 1979

In 2004, I asked IAMG's President, who is also JMG's Book Reviewer, to make available the following textbooks,

Basic linear geostatistics
Armstrong, M, Springer, 1998

Geostatistics for environmental scientists
Webster, R and Oliver, M A, 1998

Applied mineral inventory estimation
Sinclair, A J, Cambridge, Apr 2002

I would like to post my reviews before the end of 2005 but have yet to receive any of these textbooks.