Objective Data on regional geology, mineral resources, mining policies, and investment environments serve as a crucial data foundation for mining enterprises going global to conduct exploration and development in foreign countries. How to aggregate, store, preserve, and develop these relevant data and information represents an important foundational task to support and safeguard China's mineral resource security.

Methods Based on the aforementioned needs and building upon previous efforts in constructing a global geological and mineral database, this paper focuses on scenario applications such as the aggregation and integration of remote data, remote network resource service invocation, customized data interface, geological and mineral spatial information analysis, and thematic data tracking and capture.

Results It has constructed a brand−new business system framework for the global mineral resources system. Through system design and development, functions such as multi−source heterogeneous data associative retrieval, remote resource sharing and invocation, investment environment evaluation and analysis, basic data collection and management, and mineral resource visualization analysis have been realized. A relatively complete business process for global data acquisition, processing, management, sharing, service, and analysis has been established. Additionally, a global geological and mineral big data platform based on the business intranet, a global geological and mineral information network providing internet services, a global mineral resources database management system, a mining project investment environment evaluation system, a mining policy database system, and a mineral resources information reporting system have been developed, thereby constructing an information−based business architecture system that supports the analysis and research of overseas geological and mineral resources and investment environments.

Conclusions The construction of the global mineral resources system has enhanced its support capabilities in areas such as the study of mineral resource distribution, analysis of mineralization patterns, evaluation of national investment environments for mineral resources, and identification of key regions for global mineral resource exploration and development. It also demonstrates certain innovations in multi−source heterogeneous data fusion and mining project analysis and evaluation, thereby further supporting and safeguarding national energy and resource security and providing practical significance for supporting departmental and bureau−level decision−making and aiding mining enterprises in going global.