About this manual

This manual was originally written and freely distributed by Grant Boxer. To share it more widely, Grant and Mammoth Geospatial have collaborated to migrate it to a web-friendly format, following the lead of the QGIS documentation.

We are offering this document as a donation to the QGIS geoscience community to assist new and existing users in developing their QGIS skills. QGIS is supported by a talented group of developers and we thank them for their efforts to continually improve the software. We consider QGIS to be of great benefit to students and those in the developing world where funding for proprietary software can be difficult.

We welcome community contributions! If you see errors or omissions, or have specific suggestions you think will make this more useful, please let us know by submitting an issue via the GitHub repo. For more substantial contributions, we’d be happy to review pull requests.

Authors and maintainers

Grant Boxer has been using QGIS since 2015 after about 20 years using MapInfo Discover. He has been involved in exploration and mining geology for over 40 years, including almost 20 years with CRA Exploration Pty Limited, Argyle Diamonds and Rio Tinto Exploration from 1979 till 1997. Over the past 20 years (1998 - present) he has been consulting to the diamond exploration and mining industry with activities in Australia, Brazil, China, Greenland and India, and exploring for other commodities including base metals, iron ore, and manganese.

Mammoth Geospatial is an open source GIS consulting company based in Fremantle, Australia, with a focus on providing QGIS support and training to various sectors including mining and exploration.

Contributors

Thanks to these people who have contributed time to write, migrate, review, update, and maintain QGIS in Mineral Exploration.

Grant Boxer (original author)

John Bryant

Cholena Smart

Sam Hoppe

Licence

This manual is licenced under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.