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Abstract
GIS AS A TOOL IN MINING INDUSTRY.
Rahul
Student
Symbiosis Institute of Geoinformatics,
Email: rahul_thamke@rediffmail.com
The use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a powerful tool to analyze and display data is gathering momentum in the mining industry. Of particular interest is the capability of GIS to link spatial features and tabular data. This capability is here applied to a series of layers of a CAD drawing and associating a table of attributes to the various features of the drawing in an effort to consolidate both components into a useful tool for management. This application of GIS in underground mining concentrates in four technical areas: land ownership and mineral claims, exploration management, production, and mine safety. The benefits of consolidating and archiving claim data and the ability to georeference property maps defined in local coordinates into state coordinate system is of paramount importance to a land and exploration manager. In the production area, GIS facilitates the optimal siting and querying of service installations relative to production centers to meet the production parameters. In mine safety, the siting of refuge chambers relative to production centers is optimized and areas of potential safety concern are identified utilizing GIS’s proximity analysis. The same applies to finding the shortest route to emergency exits and preparation of maps to facilitate the prompt evacuation of mine personnel. The application of GIS in environmental, mine remediation and reclamation has been extensively tested and documented. However, the same is not true in the area of technical mining applications. This paper describes examples of technical applications in underground mining concentrating in four areas: land ownership and mineral claims, exploration management, production, and mine safety.
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