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The M ining I ndustry G eospatial C onsortium

The M ining I ndustry G eospatial C onsortium. migc.ehosting.ca (www.migc.org). Outline. What is the MIGC Goals History Membership Current Projects ADX, metadata, geocodes, digital mapping Government’s Role – how you can help. What is the MIGC?.

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The M ining I ndustry G eospatial C onsortium

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  1. The Mining Industry Geospatial Consortium migc.ehosting.ca (www.migc.org)

  2. Outline • What is the MIGC • Goals • History • Membership • Current Projects • ADX, metadata, geocodes, digital mapping • Government’s Role – how you can help CGKN - March, 2006

  3. What is the MIGC? The MIGC is a non-profit, volunteer organization for geoscience professionals, intended to provide a forum for identifying solutions to the major data and software-related problems and issues facing the mining industry. CGKN - March, 2006

  4. The Problem • Companies hire geoscientists to find orebodies, NOT • To clean up data • Search for missing data • Wrestle with incompatible data formats • Try and figure out where the data came from and how good it is • Etc., etc. • Support staff are limited or non-existent CGKN - March, 2006

  5. MIGC Goals • Create an effective, sustainable organization • Share knowledge and experience • Provide focused feedback to software vendors • Identify and endorse Industry Best Practice • Provide guidance and feedback to government agencies • Coordinate with related groups – CGKN, OGC, CGI., etc. CGKN - March, 2006

  6. Key Industry Issues • Data management • Metadata • Data interoperability and transfer • Document management • Sarbanes Oxley and NI 43-101 CGKN - March, 2006

  7. History • Initiated by Placer Dome • First meeting in San Diego in Aug., 2004 • Subsequent meetings in Perth, Toronto, Vancouver • Tomorrow is 2nd annual PDAC meeting CGKN - March, 2006

  8. Alcoa Anglo American Barrick Gold BHP Billiton CVRD De Beers Falconbridge Gold Fields Inco Kennecott Newmont Placer Dome Rio Tinto Teck Cominco WMC Membership – Industry CGKN - March, 2006

  9. ALS Chemex Datamine ENCOM ESRI Fractal Technologies Geosoft MapTek Meridian Metech MapInfo Spatial Dimension Membership – Software CGKN - March, 2006

  10. Membership – Government • CSIRO • DOIR – WA • MNDM • Queensland Geological Survey • South Australian Geological Survey • USGS CGKN - March, 2006

  11. Current Projects • Assay Data eXchange • Metadata • Geocodes • Digital Mapping CGKN - March, 2006

  12. Government Data What We Would Like to See

  13. Government Data • We need: • A complete, easy to search catalogue • Clean, reliable data • Available in most common formats • Standard format metadata • Easy access – downloadable as well as CD/DVD CGKN - March, 2006

  14. Tenement Change Detection • Western Australia tenement data • DOIR provides a fully-attributed SDE export file to an FTP site that Placer Dome imports to their SDE change detection database • Worked with DOIR to ensure we could directly read and use their data • DOIR notifies us of any planned changes CGKN - March, 2006

  15. In Canada • Preliminary discussions with BC and Quebec surveys • We need reliable polygons with full attributes CGKN - March, 2006

  16. What Can We Do To Help? CGKN - March, 2006

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