COURSE NOTES

MINING SOFTWARE

YEAR 2015

DATABASE AND
WORKSPACE CONCE

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 Using Gemcom for Windows will helps us to:

- COLLECT and ORGANIZE large amounts of
data on a
project-by-project basis.
- Each project is stored in its own ROOT
DIRECTORY
which contains the PROJECT
DATABASE and other files
associated with the
project.
- This root directory is also subdivided into a
collection of MULTI-LEVEL SUBDIRECTORIES for
each MAIN component of the project.
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT

When we start a new project:

- Gemcom will automatically creates a suitable
directory structure.
- It also creates the project root directory and
manages
the multi-level subdirectories
and individual data files.
Each project root directory is defined by a unique
name that consists of two parts:
GCDBaa
GCDB stands for Gemcom Database.

aa is a unique two-character a numeric or

alphanumeric that you enter to identify the project
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WORKSPACE

A workspace is:
is a set of data within a project that is grouped
together on the basis of its general type.
Typical types of data are
Point data,
Traverse data,
Drillhole data,
Polygon and other data.
These general data types have been specially
selected because they are the most common
ways of organizing spatial data in the
exploration activities.
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Gemcom workspaces are organized into tables

containing data.

Each
workspace
must
have at least one or two
tables depending on the
type of workspace,

and can have a

virtually unlimited
number of tables.

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Each table can be viewed as

a grid consisting of rows and
columns, in which the rows

records

are called
and the columns are called

fields

Within each table, every field

has its own field name and
set of attributes. Data is
entered at the intersection
of a row (record) and column
(field).

Gemcom workspaces can

contain a maximum of 128
tables
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TYPES OF WORKSPACES
Large volumes of data are collected during exploration.

Most of this data is located at known points identified by

two or three-dimensional coordinate
or by a distance or interval along a line of known by its
location and direction.
This type of data can be entered and managed very efficiently
in
the four main workspace types are

point,
traverse,
drillhole and
polygon.

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TYPES OF WORKSPACES

A
point
workspace
contains a single table
which holds information
about points located in
twoor
threedimensional space.
Each
record
in
the
workspace holds data for
one point. Each field in
the record holds the
location
(2D
or
3D
coordinate) as well as
quantitative
or
qualitative data for that

POINT DATA
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TYPES OF WORKSPACES
Large volumes of data are
collected during exploration.
Most of this data is located at
known points identified by a
two or three-dimensional
coordinate
or by a distance or interval
along a line of known by its
location and
direction.
This type of data can be entered
and managed very efficiently in
the four main workspace types:

point, traverse,
drillhole and
polygon.

POINT DATA
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