Creation of the system of state cadastres of mineral deposits and, including the economic cadastre of industrial deposits of non-ferrous metals requires the formation of a powerful information base.

The intensity of manifestations of rock pressure is one of the main factors that determine the technical and economic performance of mining enterprises with the underground mining method. Thus, without a comprehensive consideration of manifestations of rock pressure, the problems of optimal planning of mining operations, the search for schemes of location, support and maintenance of mine workings, ensuring high productivity and safety of mining operations, cannot be successfully solved. The development of methods of operational control of rock pressure parameters is an important trend of technical progress in the mining industry.

In conditions of large exposures of the roof, for example, when developing minerals by the chamber system (or chamber-longwall), information on mining-geological characteristics acquires particular importance. Timely support of anomalous roof zones will make it possible to substantially improve the safety of mining operations and ensure the possibility of working stoping faces up to the design span..

The steady increase in coal production and the transition to mining new deposits with increasingly complex conditions of occurrence makes the problems of monitoring rock pressure manifestations and predicting the behavior of the roof in mine workings a paramount task, which has not yet found its solution. This is due to a number of reasons, in particular, insufficient knowledge of rock pressure processes, and the lack of a methodology for systematic prediction based on monitoring measurements of the state of the rock mass.