Ontology of calculating the availability of mineral resources for solid minerals

Abstract

In modern conditions, the performance of prospecting and geological exploration becomes possible only after a thorough economic assessment. The ontology of a subject area is considered from the perspective of numerous researchers as a way of formally describing a given subject area, designed for an unambiguous interpretation of terms within its limits. In relation to the sphere of subsurface use, the creation of an ontology is especially relevant due to the significant amount of accumulated information resources. When conducting geological exploration, prospecting and exploration of the subsurface, it is necessary to rely on the existing basis of geological knowledge of a territory. In the process of performing an economic assessment on solid minerals, it is necessary to take into account the indicators of annual productivity in extraction and processing, losses, dilution, etc. These indicators affect both the current state of reserves in terms of the dynamics of their repayment, and the need for geological exploration in terms of the prompt elimination of the resulting shortage. At the same time, some indicators, such as the dimension of the object, the complexity of its development, the consumer properties of raw materials, and its natural quality, have a pronounced qualitative component in the evaluation process, which determines the need to involve experts. That is why the construction of an ontological model will make it possible to consolidate both quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the research object within a single structure. In this paper, an attempt is made to determine the availability of exploited raw materials using an abstract array of data on the available geological study of the territory using an ontological model.