Gis-Application for Environmental Management in Mining Areas on the Example of the Molteno Coal Field, Indwe, Eastern Cape

Moatari-Kazerouni, Afsoon

doi:10.5593/sgem2017/23/s11.066

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“…The publications, studies and research that has been developed about the application of GIS in mining are mainly targeted on topics such as environmental aspects and preservation [6,7] or enhancement of mining spaces [8]. It is relatively easy to find studies about potential uses of land in abandoned mining areas, the generation of evolutive cartography in terms of density of mining exploitation in different countries, pollutant spreading due to mining accidents, analysis of risk of pollution of water reservoirs in coal areas, the mapping of locations that can be affected by subsidence, the development of 3D models of geologic structures, or the creation and update of mining registries.…”

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confidence: 99%

Archives of Mining Sciences

Fernández-Maroto,

De Luis-Ruiz,

Pereda-García

et al. 2020

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have become essential tools for land analysis and the subsequent decision making in many fields of human activity. In the field of mining, GIS applications have appeared in ore deposit modelling, environmental pollution, or planning of mining spaces. In this research, the powerful multicriteria tools of GIS platforms have been applied for the determination of an index that has been called "Exploitability Index". This index allows analyzing a series of outcrops of industrial aggregates, to help in the selection of the most adequate one to be enhanced from a mining approach. The multicriteria analysis has been applied for its determination, and as a result of this research, a model is proposed. The main criteria that condition the decision have been established in this model, along with their subsequent hierarchization and their weighting. The proposed model is applied to a specific case: the analysis of a series of outcrops of industrial aggregates (ophites) in Cantabria, Spain. After defining the Exploitability Index for those ophitic outcrops, it has been observed that the only deposit that has been classified as very suitable for its exploitation is the only one that has been really exploited, supporting the proposed methodology.

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confidence: 99%