Methodological Aspects of Managing a Geological Study of Subsoil and Forming a Database for a Geological and Economic Map of the Mineral Resource Potential of Sakha Republic (Yakutia)

Abstract

Managing the process of geological exploration of subsoil has now undergone significant changes. Over the period of applying information technologies in the geological industry, notable changes have occurred in the structure of the subsoil management system, which were expressed in solving organizational issues of the system design, choosing the structure of methodological tools, selecting a software and hardware platform, etc. At present, a significant difficulty is to solve the issue of creating a control system for the geological study process of subsoil and to reproduce mineral resources at the regional level, where the reserve disposal should be compensated by their growth. This is the idea of a simple reproduction of the raw materials base. For a number of raw materials, even such an increase is currently not achievable; regional programmes for a geological exploration of subsoil are formed by extrapolating last year’s indicators or there are no such programmes at all. The authors have developed a control system model for the geological exploration process of subsoil and formed a system of indicators in the form of a database for a geological and economic map of the mineral resource potential (using the example of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)). This work was supported by the grant No. MD-2409.2020.5 given by the President of the Russian Federation.