Quantitative evaluation of the distribution of a variable within a solid by a method using constitution and distribution heterogeneities of P. Gy, application to textural study of ores.

Abstract : The textural description of a solid can be seen as a two stages job. The first one consists in determining the mineralogical composition and the size of the components. Information collected during this step will be named Granularity Parameter (GP). The second stage is a study of the spatial distribution of the components, called below Distribution Parameter (DP). The proposed method quantifies GP and DP by respectively constitution heterogeneity (HC) and distribution heterogeneity (HD). HC and HD are functions defined by P. Gy, 1982 and 1988 in his “Theory of particule material sampling”.