MineralResources

-- Definition -- A mineral accumulation in the lithosphere.

-- Definition -- The process of extracting metallic, non-metallic mineral, or industrial rock deposits from the Earth. -- Description -- The term may also include preliminary treatment eg. cleaning or sizing.

-- Definition -- The material of economic interest in the EarthResource

-- Definition -- A spatial representation of a MiningFeature. -- Description -- A MiningFeatureOccurrence provides a link between a notional feature (description package) and one spatial representation of it, or part of it. The MiningFeatureOccurrence carries a geometry and the association with a Mining Feature provides specification of all the other descriptors.

-- Definition -- An excavation carried out for the extraction of mineral deposits. -- Description -- ‘True’ mines are underground workings and open-pit workings (also called open-sky mines) generally for the extraction of metallic commodities. The Mine feature also includes open workings generally for the extraction of industrial minerals, commonly referred to as quarries.

-- Definition -- Spatial object type grouping the common properties of mines and mining activities.

-- Definition -- The kinds of observable or inferred phenomena required to classify economic and non-economic earth resources.

-- Definition -- A period of exploration activity.

-- Definition -- A measure of the amount of the commodity based on a Reserve, Resource or Endowment calculation. -- Description -- Where OreMeasure is Resource or Reserve CommodityMeasure is mandatory

-- Definition -- A data type indicating the Mine Name and whether it is the preferred name.

-- Definition -- The economically mineable part of a Measured and/or Indicated Mineral Resource. -- Description -- It includes diluting materials and allowances for losses, which may occur when the material is mined. ‘Marketable Coal Reserves’ maybe reported in conjunction with, but not instead of, reports of Ore (Coal) Reserves. ‘Saleable product’ (e.g. for industrial minerals) can be reported in conjunction with ore reserve. Synonyms: Ore Reserve; Coal Reserve (s); Diamond (or gemstone) Ore Reserve; Mineral Reserves (not preferred, should be stated that used to mean the same as JORC’s Ore Reserve); Mineable production estimates

-- Definition -- The quantity of a mineral (or a group of minerals for industrial rocks) in accumulations (deposits) meeting specified physical characteristics such as quality, size and depth. -- Description -- Usually includes Resources, as unlike the latter, it does not have to have prospects for "eventual economic extraction". It often includes the total amount of a commodity originally introduced to a particular location during the deposit forming processes - and thus can include resources, reserves, past production and mining and metallurgical losses.

-- Definition -- An accumulation of material of intrinsic economic interest in or on the Earth’s crust in such form, quality and quantity that there are reasonable prospects for economic extraction. -- Description -- Synonyms: Mineral Resource; Coal Resource (s); Diamond (Gemstone) Resource; Potentially Mineable Mineralisation.

-- Definition -- The estimate of the Reserve, Resource or Endowment ore amount.

-- Definition -- The size and volume of the earth resource.

-- Definition -- Values indicating the importance of the commodity for the Earth Resource. -- Description -- Such a ranking is based on a statistical study of a large set of deposits throughout the world to ensure that it is valid. It is made using histograms allowing for each commodity to define class boundaries and what is a very large, a large, a medium-sized etc deposit for this commodity.. This classification is based on the potential or endowment: reserves + resources.

-- Definition -- Values indicating the grouping of mineral deposits on the basis of their generic characteristics. -- Description -- EXAMPLE: host rock, host structure, commodity, association with similar mineral processes e.g. porphyry.

-- Definition -- Values indicating the operational status of the mine.

-- Definition -- The type of mining activity, processing activity, or production.

-- Definition -- Values indicating the end-use potential of the mineral. -- Description -- EXAMPLE: for energy, fertilizer, building raw material etc.

-- Definition -- The level of confidence of the estimate of the reserve.

-- Definition -- Values indicating the type of processing carried out during a mining activity.

-- Definition -- Types of exploration activity carried out.

-- Definition -- Values indicating the type of commodity. -- Description -- EXAMPLE: Cu, Au, Dimension Stone etc.

-- Definition -- Values indicating the result of the exploration activity.

-- Definition -- The type of mineral occurrence.

-- Definition -- Values indicating the style of mineral occurrence or deposit. -- Description -- Generally a local or regional term. Should be referenced for definitions and descriptions. Single deposit terms may form member of a Mineral Deposit Group in local and regional schemas.

-- Definition -- Codes indicating the means used to calculate the ore measurement. -- Description -- EXAMPLE: JORC, PERC, Unspecified, UNESCO/World Bank and the Canadian CIM.

-- Definition -- Indication whether the resource is measured, indicated, or inferred.

-- Definition -- Systematically arranged information describing the essential attributes of a class of mineral deposits. It may be empirical (descriptive) or theoretical (genetic).