Houston Seminar in Statistics Applied to Geology

Distribution Silver
Countries

Sergio Perez Rodriguez

EG, PDG, MSc

June 2017
The distribution of silver reserves organized by the nine top countries and the rest of the world lead to
the following:

Table 1. Distribution of silver mine reserves from the data of the main countries

Frequency
Bin
(number
(Thousands of metric of
tons) countries)

50 5

75 0

90 3

120 1

Figure 1. Histogram plot of the distribution of silver reserves by the nine main country holders. In red,
the fit with a polynomial law function.
Figure 2. Polynomial fit of the distribution of silver reserves by the nine main country holders