Projektbericht - Geologische Bundesanstalt

Ü-LG-32-33/2011
Fig. 1: General overview of the documented mine sites in Austria.
Most of the data were compiled from the archives of
the Geological Survey, mining authorities and some
mining companies on map scales of 1:5,000 to
1:10,000. The use of large scale compilations allows
a topographical representation of detailed surface
information of the mine sites (adits, galleries, shafts,
open pits, waste dumps, tailing ponds e.g.).
Underground mining areas are mapped as outline of
the underground workings, so far documented in
mine maps.
Accurate up to date verifications are based on aerial
photo and laser scan analysis, combined with
additional field work in selected mining areas. For
financial reasons the field survey was restricted to
the relevant larger deposits in Austria. So many of
the entries in the inventory – especially data
concerning small scale mine sites – are represented
by information on a historic level without recent field
verification.
The mining information system (Fig. 2) is based on
the SQL Server © Database tables, several ArcGIS ®
layers with polygon and point data, georeferenced
images and a scan archive with documents (pdf)
and maps (tiff, jpg).
The GIS Database consists of 3 SDE (Spatial Data
Engine) layers:
• mining areas (over 4,500 polygons)
• waste dump deposits (over 7,500 polygons)
• adits and shafts (over 15,000 points).
Each of the geodatabase tables contains a unique
key identifier to provide a connection to the attribute
database.
The database attribute information consists of data
primarily focussed on the following description:
• locality (coordinates, location name, political
and geographical unit)
• mineral deposit (ore, industrial minerals,
coals)
• mining history
• geology (tectonic and stratigraphic unit,
chronostratigraphic age)
• mineralogy (minerals linked to IMAS list)
• chemical characterization of mineralization
and host rocks
• results of geochemical analysis
• literature.
The application for data input, database query and
reporting has been written using MS Access ® Visual
Basic for Applications (VBA).
There are some stand alone database applications
which are also connected to the Inventory of
abandoned mine sites. The connection is based
either on ID (unique identifier) or GIS location.
Some of them are the “Mine Mapping Information
System of Austria” (ZBKV), IRIS (the “Interactive
Raw Material Information System”) and the
“Metallogenetic Map of Austria 1:500,000”. The
combined GIS and database analysis provides an
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