The information-analytical system is a suite of methods, software, communications products, and information resources that provide accumulation, storage, analysis and interpretation of textual, tabular, graphic and cartographic data on the mineral deposits and mines. The system has found practical application as a task-oriented operational cost evaluation of the existing and predicted budget returns at various levels from the development of mineral deposits, and as an environmental impact assessment tool.

  Based on the revenue method, a shortcut method has been developed for the cost evaluation of mineral deposits. An optimal combination of indicators has been determined, which allows managerial decisions to be taken. Within the geological-economic evaluation module, the economic effect from the development of deposits is calculated and budget returns are evaluated at different levels. The environmental module makes it possible to carry out a monetary assessment of the environmental impact caused by geological surveys and mining activities and to give predictive appraisals of damage to the elements of the environment. To efficiently search and process the mineral deposit information, a database has been developed under the Microsoft Access database management system and a linkage has been realized with the geoinformation system (GIS) that processes the cartographic data.