Mine Turow, whose story began almost from 1904, where he is currently open cast lignite deposit is carried out over a vast area more than 25 km,² and even at depths of 300 m moving annually approximately 65 million m³ of soil mass, has repeatedly been exposed to serious risk of slope deformation. Implementation in the 90’s Mining Informatics System (GSI/MIS) based on modern surveying techniques and computer (including the applied for the first time in Poland GPS technology) has allowed, inter alia, to effectively control these problems. One of the primary users of GSI is to serve Measuring Mine, which performs its tasks in an integrated manner with other departments – concurrent system in the following areas: geodesy, geology, geotechnical and mining technology. The aim of these integrated measures is to ensure proper performance and safety of the process of strip mining on such a large scale. An extremely important role in this process is played by the measurements: Spatial mining area networks, local area networks, slope deformation, and continuously updated and available to all departments concerned digital map of the mining area (including pit mine and dump).

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