Abandoned shafts study (Charters Towers): a spatial solution

Nelson-White, Greg (2006) Abandoned shafts study (Charters Towers): a spatial solution. [USQ Project]

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Abstract

The cessation of many mine operations in the Charters Towers goldfield has left a
significant number of long forgotten, abandoned mine shafts. The presence of
these abandoned mine structures, many of which were backfilled a long time ago
has in recent times received increasing government and public concerns because
of the potential risk to humans and property. Remediation can be an expensive
exercise especially when difficulties with site discovery are considered. Much of
the abandoned mine shaft discovery has been focused on the information
maintained in the shaft repair inventory, developed in 1997 by NR&M. The
issues related to accuracy and validation of site data, have been poorly addressed
from a historic perspective with little effort made to quantify the affect of
spatially correcting the dataset using a Geographic Information System (GIS).

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Item Type:	USQ Project
Refereed:	No
Item Status:	Live Archive
Faculty/School / Institute/Centre:	Historic - Faculty of Engineering and Surveying - Department of Agricultural, Civil and Environmental Engineering (Up to 30 Jun 2013)
Date Deposited:	11 Oct 2007 01:00
Last Modified:	02 Jul 2013 22:43
Uncontrolled Keywords:	geographic information system (GIS); differential global positioning system (DGPS); Charters Towers; global position system (GPS); mining
Fields of Research (2008):	09 Engineering > 0909 Geomatic Engineering > 090903 Geospatial Information Systems 08 Information and Computing Sciences > 0806 Information Systems > 080606 Global Information Systems 09 Engineering > 0914 Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy > 091405 Mining Engineering
Fields of Research (2020):	40 ENGINEERING > 4013 Geomatic engineering > 401302 Geospatial information systems and geospatial data modelling 46 INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES > 4609 Information systems > 460911 Inter-organisational, extra-organisational and global information systems 40 ENGINEERING > 4019 Resources engineering and extractive metallurgy > 401905 Mining engineering
URI:	https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/2231

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