“…The former methods main contains isoline method, profiling method, arithmetic mean method, geologic block method, triangle method, polygonal method, and so on. The later kinds of approaches developed rapidly, and many methods and models have been brought forward, such as isofactorial binormal distribution model (Guertin, 1987), the Jackknife method (Varljen et al, 1998), density spectrum method (Yao, 1998), the geo-statistic method (Hou and Huang, 2001), the optimization algorithms method (Bastante et al, 2003), the box alternation coordinate system and multiple reserve calculation integration method (Cao and Chen, 2003), the grid subdivision and integral method (Wu et al, 2007), and so on. In China, traditional geometry-based methods are most commonly used because these methods are suitable for the actual characteristics in Chinese mining areas (Zhao et al, 2010;Zhang et al, 2011).…”