Hylke Glass
Hylke Glass is Professor at the Camborne School of Mines (CSM), a department of the University of Exeter, since 2001. He was originally introduced to sampling theory by Theo Zegers at the Delft University of Technology in 1994. Togetherthey investigated the quantification of the sampling variance and the effects of grade varying across particle sizes, degree of liberation, the particle size distribution itself, moisture content, and occurrence of very low grades. This led to aa number of publications, including a presentation at the Surface Mining 1996 conference. Following Theo’s retirement in 1997, Hylke took over the teaching of sampling of particulate materials and, from 1999, worked with Bas Geelhoed on creating understanding about fundamental aspects of Pierre Gy’s Theoty of Sampling (TOS). A series of papers were published in journals including Geostandards Newsletter and Statistica Neerlandica. He continues to take an active interest in the development of sampling theory, its application in resource estimation and control of mineral processing, as well as raising awareness of sampling in the mining, engineering and minerals processing courses taught at CSM.