Design an information system to boost the mining attractiveness of your territory

Your challenges and needs

Your State, highly exposed to this demand, aims to leverage its mineral resources as a strategic development tool. You seek to strengthen the regulation of the sector, attract investments, and maximize local and national benefits.

As the official focal point for geological and mining data, you must collect, centralize, and manage the essential information for knowledge production and mining activities in a context where:

• The dispersion of data (geological, deposit-related, geophysical) across your territory makes it difficult to define a national mining strategy,
•  Restricted access to existing databases due to the lack of accessible and interoperable information systems limits the industrial use of data,
• Documents (archives, documentary collections, libraries, and map libraries) are scattered across different agencies, not digitized and difficult to access, sometimes even outside the country,
• The reports (research, prospecting, exploitation) produced on site by the various mining operators are difficult to collect and use to oversee activities and generate new knowledge.

BRGM supports you throughout the entire process:

How to build the future organization and its tools: Diagnosis

• Audit the existing situation, gather requirements, and make organizational, digital infrastructure, and human resources recommendations,
• Evaluate documentation and databases (quality, quantity, preservation status, integration possibilities…).

Design the geographic information system

• Design and implement a GIS architecture suited to the context (proprietary or open source),
• Ensure interoperability with other systems and geoscientific databases where applicable.

Develop the database

•  Conceptual data schemas, database architecture (proprietary or open source),
• Transform and integrate existing data (geographical, geological, geophysical, lithological),

Information technologies

• Solutions for inventory, archiving, and making reports, maps, and archives available, digitization workflow,
• Sharing of digital documents into the geological and mining information system.

Deploy the web platform

• Create the website allowing remote access to the system for dissemination and promotion 

Ensure capacity building

• Train your teams through mentoring (IT specialists, geomatics experts, data managers, documentalists, etc.),
• Document the deployed systems to ensure their sustainability.