The purpose of this contribution is to highlight four topics of regional and worldwide mineral resource prediction: (1) use of the jackknife for bias elimination in regional mineral potential assessments; (2) estimating total amounts of metal from mineral potential maps; (3) fractal/multifractal modeling of mineral deposit density data in permissive areas; and (4) worldwide and large-areas metal size-frequency distribution modeling. The techniques described in this paper remain tentative because they have not been widely researched and applied in mineral potential studies. Although most of the content of this paper has previously been published, several perspectives for further research are suggested.

该贡献的目的是突出区域和全球矿产资源预测的四个主题：（1）在区域矿产潜力评估中使用折刀消除偏差；（2）从矿产潜力图估算金属总量；（3）许可区域内矿床密度数据的分形/多重分形建模；（4）全球和大面积金属尺寸-频率分布模型。本文中描述的技术仍然是试验性的，因为它们尚未被广泛研究并应用于矿产潜力研究中。尽管本文的大部分内容以前都已发布，但仍提出了一些进一步研究的观点。