The aim of selecting a specific mining method should be to maximize the safe and cost-effective extraction of an orebody whilst minimizing the environmental impact and effectively collaborating with the local community (social license to operate) so they can benefit long term from the mining.

В книге рассмотрены особенности построения трехмерных цифровых геологических моделей нефтяных и нефтегазовых месторождений клиноформных отложений неокома Западной Сибири. Описываются методические и технологические подходы к их созданию на различных этапах с учетом стадии изученности месторождений, объема и качества исходного геолого-геофизического материала

Collecting quantitative data to support geological analysis and modelling is nowadays a fundamental requirement in all geology disciplines, including structural geology, stratigraphy, and geomorphology, on the Earth and on planetary bodies of the Solar System. In many cases the answer to this need is a Digital Outcrop Model (DOM), a Digital Elevation Model  (DEM), or a Shape Model (SM): this can be a digital representation of an outcrop or topographic surface, or of a whole small body (asteroid or comet nucleus) for an SM, generally combined with imagery, that can be quantitatively visualized andstudied in 3D, with the goal of obtaining quantitative measurements.