ArcGIS Desktop for the mining and exploration industry

This 3-day ArcGIS Desktop for Mining and Exploration course teaches the geospatial concepts and skills needed to manage, create, edit, analyse, visualise and work with geospatial mining data using ArcGIS software. The course uses mining specific geospatial datasets, aerial photography and drilling results, and the practical exercises are typical of the tasks and problems faced by those modelling spatial information in mineral exploration and production. See course dates below.

No previous experience with ArcGIS Pro software is required. Experience with using Microsoft Windows is essential.

Exercise 1 – GIS Exploration Project:

Introducing ArcMap; setting MapTips; overview window; magnifier window;
optional exercise – viewer window

Exercise 2 – Map document basics:

Ordering layers; finding features; attribute tables; identifying features; measuring; navigating with go to XY; bookmarks; my places; layouts
Optional exercise – using find and identify tools; test your knowledge: review a map

Exercise 3 – Changing display of data:
Start ArcMap; modifying your map document; layer display scale; renaming layers; display features by category; display features by quantity; adding labels; transparency; optional exercise – Raster Symbology

Exercise 4 – Using catalog and Search: What Is ArcCatalog?; opening the catalog window; connecting to your data; using catalog window; finding data in a table; using the description view; viewing CAD files via catalog window
Optional exercise – configuring catalog window defaults
Optional exercise – the ArcToolbox window

Exercise 5 – Working with coordinate systems:
Map coordinate systems; layer coordinate systems; coordinate systems in catalog window; transformations; projecting data
Optional exercise – searching for tools
Optional exercise – defining coordinate system; optional exercise – batch project
Optional exercise – favourite coordinate systems
Optional exercise – Albers Coordinate System for Western Australia

Exercise 6 – Creating a new map document:
Adding data with catalog window; grouping layers; saving group layers; hyperlinks
Optional exercise – definition query

Exercise 7 – Symbolising Geoscientific data:
Accessing data from a comma separated text file (*.Csv); creating an event layer; creating a Shapefile from an event layer; symbolise the map layer; stacked labels
Optional exercise – advanced labelling

Exercise 8 – Exploring attribute tables:
Joining tables; create summary data; create a new field; table queries; calculating areas; advanced queries; select by location

Exercise 9 – Symbolising data by attributes:
Symbolising by category; symbolising by quantity; Graduated Symbols; symbolising with multiple attributes
Optional exercise – customising symbols

Exercise 10 – Creating a Geodatabase:
Create a new Shapefile; create new file Geodatabase; Geodatabase domains; create a feature class; creating additional feature classes; import a Shapefile into the Geodatabase; import table data into the Geodatabase; import assay data
Optional exercise – import Shapefiles into a Geodatabase; optional exercise – Cad tools

Exercise 11 – Creating features (editing):
Annotations; creating points; creating polylines; creating polygons; adding polygon attributes; snapping and advanced shape editing
Optional exercise – cutting holes in polygons
Optional exercise – merging polygons
Optional exercises – buffering and clipping
Optional exercises – intersecting and appending

Exercise 12 – Presenting your work (cartography):
Creating a map; set projections; map scales; page size properties; grids and graticules; graphic elements; extent indicators; legends; printing or exporting maps
Optional exercise – using map templates

Exercise 13 – Georeferencing:
Raster data and Georeferencing; Georeferencing using GPS point data; Georeferencing an image against another image
Optional exercise – Georeferencing CAD data

Exercise 14 – graphs:
Creating a graph; adding a table to a layout; producing a map with graphs and tables; duplicating maps
Optional exercise – experimenting with graph options
Optional exercise – spatial join

Exercise 15 – Base maps and internet data sources:
Online basemaps; GIS servers
Optional exercise – accessing other services