How data is processed

Understand how source files become searchable documents, drillhole records, and map layers.

What indexing means

Indexing is Mineflow's process for reading supported files and preparing their contents for search and visualization. Uploading puts a file in your workspace; processing makes its usable content available to the relevant tools.

  1. Read the files. Mineflow examines supported documents, tables, and spatial datasets.
  2. Identify the content. It identifies drilling, geological maps, geophysics, geochemistry, and other supported data types.
  3. Connect related records. Related collars, surveys, assays, and geological intervals can be associated where the available evidence supports it.
  4. Prepare spatial outputs. Supported records become map or 3D data; suitable map images can be georeferenced.

Read the processing result

A single report may contain several data types. Equally, a successfully stored file may not contain extractable drilling or a map that can be positioned. File count, drillhole count, and layer count describe different things.

Use View on Map for the selected files and inspect the result alongside its source. For reports with maps, read Georeferencing.

Give the process useful source information

  • Keep related survey and GIS files together.
  • Preserve identifiers, measurement units, and coordinate reference information.
  • Include full report pages rather than cropped table or map screenshots where possible.
  • Review unexpected locations or values against the original source before using them in an interpretation.

Processing does not make private uploads part of the public collection. See Data privacy and security.