OPERATING MINES IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA

This submission forms the final assignment of the Developing Data Products Coursera Module.

The assignment requires the development of Shiny App that is reactive to a user's inputs. The WA Operating Mines application shows the locations of operating mines within Western Australia using the leaflet package combined with shiny.

The data was obtained from the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety.

The source of the data is https://dasc.dmp.wa.gov.au/DASC?productAlias=MINEDEXOperatingMines.

The data contains 33 variables with 1144 observations.

A sample of the data is provided below:

head(data.mines[, 1:4])

  SITE_CODE  SHORT_TITLE                        TITLE SITE_TYPE
1  S0000012      Baneygo                      Baneygo      Mine
2  S0000033  Big Bell UG         Big Bell Underground      Mine
3  S0000045      Aladdin             Aladdin Open Pit      Mine
4  S0000062    Brittania       Brittania - Mt Hampton      Mine
5  S0000198 Yarlarweelor   Yarlarweelor North & South      Mine
6  S0000357      Jupiter Jupiter - Joanne - Doublejay      Mine

All of the data is publically available under a Creative Commons License.

The app is available at https://datality.shinyapps.io/WA_Operating_Mines/.

This app presents a full page Leaflet map centred on Western Australia. The cluster function was used to present a cleaner, less cluttered view.

An introduction is provided in the app to assist first time users.

All of the data is loaded by default.

Details of the four drop-down menus are provided on the next slide.

1 - Operating Status

This selects wheter the mine is operational or underdevelopment.

2 - Mine Pit Type

There are various mine pit types such as “Openpit”, “Adit” etc.

3 - Commodity Group

There are broad commidity groupings. This allows the user to select these.

4 - Target Group

This drills down into the target commodity for each mine such as “Iron Ore”, “Gold” etc.