中文摘要：

这是一个科技飞速发展的时代,也是一个数据爆炸的时代。不同学科领域及不同类型工作都需要针对其特点开发和建立自己的数据科学,培养各自领域的科学人才。通过对大数据时代概念和形成的深入理解,将其引入到地学领域的研究工作中,从而提出数字找矿的概念,实现数学地质到数字地质的飞跃,弥补传统定性找矿的缺陷,结合四大找矿系统理论,对矿产预测做出科学的定量评价与分析,是未来的必然发展趋势。

英文摘要：

Our age is an age of rapid development of science and technology and also a data explosion age. Different fields and different types of work need to set up their own data science and train their own qualified personnel according to their respective characteristics. On the basis of the in-depth understanding of the concept and the formation process of the big data age and the introduction them into the research field of geological work, researchers have put forward the concept of digital prospecting and thus achieved the leap from mathematical geology to digital geology, thus making up the defects of the traditional qualitative prospecting. The future inexorable trend of development in this aspect should be the combination of the theories of four prospecting systems so as to make a scientific quantitative evaluation for mineral resources prediction and analysis.