矿山包括煤矿、金属矿、非金属矿、建材矿和化学矿等等。矿山测量是矿山建设时期和生产时期的重要一环。由于矿山测量工作涉及地面和井下，不但要为矿山生产建设服务，也要为安全生产提供信息，以供领导对安全生产做出决策。矿山测量的任何疏忽或粗率都会影响生产或有可能导致严重事故发生。因此，矿山测量在矿山开采中的责任与作用都是很大的。它的主要任务是：（1）建立矿区地面控制网和测绘1：500～1：5000的地形图和矿图；（2）进行矿区地面与井下各种工程的施工测量和竣工验收测量；（3）测绘和编制各种采掘工程图及矿体几何图；（4）进行岩层与地表移动的观测及研究；为留设保护矿柱和安全开采提供资料；（5）参加采矿计划的编制，并对资源利用及生产情况进行检查和监督。

　　此外，在矿山开采阶段还有许多复杂的技术问题需要矿山测量来解决。如主巷道的定向与测量，掘进时中、腰线的给定，井下巷道贯通，弯道设置、竖井联测、斜洞布设，井下场地开拓，回采定水平，矿量计算，井上下对照等等，处处都离不测绘。比如巷道贯通如果不经过精确测量，就不能随意开挖，否则将造成大量巷道作废，不仅浪费大，而且影响生产甚至会发生事故.

Mines, including coal, metal ores, non-metallic minerals, building materials and chemical ore mine and so on. Mine Surveying is a mine during the period of construction and production of an important part of. As the mine surveying work involved on the ground and underground, not only for the mine production and construction services, but also provide information for the safe production for the leadership to make decisions on the safety in production. Mine Surveying, any negligence or blunt will affect the production or is likely to cause serious accidents. Thus, mine surveying in the mining of the responsibilities and roles are significant. Its main tasks are: (1) the establishment of mining ground control network and mapping 1:500 ~ 1:5000 topographic maps and mine maps; (2) to ground and underground mining of various works completion and acceptance of measurement and measurement; ( 3) mapping and the preparation of a variety of mining engineering drawings and orebody geometry; (4) for rock and ground movement observation and research; for leaving in the protection and security pillar mining to provide information; (5) to participate in the preparation of mining plan, as well as resource utilization and production of inspection and supervision.

In addition, there are many mining phase of the complex technical issues need to solve mine surveying. Such as the orientation of the main roadway and measurement, tunneling time, the waist line of a given, underground tunnel linking the corner set, shaft joint measurement, inclined holes laid, underground space development, given the level of mining, mining stocks, Inoue, under control, etc. and so on, everywhere from the non-mapping. Example, if you do not through the tunnel linking accurate measurement, it can not arbitrarily excavation, or will result in a large number of roadway set aside, not only a waste of big, but also affect the production or even an accident.