The mining industry relies on a single guess as to what an orebodies looks like when they plan their multi million/billion dollar mines. These guess orebodies a

The mining industry relies on a single guess as to what an orebodies looks like when they plan their multi million/billion dollar mines. These guess orebodies are usually made by inferring local information based on their neighbours within a specified range, weighted proportionally to their distances. The method is still widely used even though it was made to deal with the fact that back in the day these calculations were done by hand. We have more correct methods but they're require computers and people don't like computers.