“产业是指生产具有相同性质产品的单位所组成的生产群体,或者具有同类社会经济职能的经济单位所组成的群体”。(《经济工作实用词解》,经济管理出版社)根据这个定义,商业性地质找矿在纵向上属于矿业,在横向上属于地质勘查业,是同时兼属两个行业的产业。但是长期以来,由于历史的原因,在计划经济体制下,固体矿产勘查一直实行探采分离,游离于矿产开采的体制之外,由财政出资,形成为政府找矿、为国家找矿的观念。所以直到现在,无论从宏观管理上,还是从微观管理上,这种观念还在许多方面影响着商业性地质找矿更好地与矿产开采结 “Industry refers to the production group composed of units with the same nature of products, or groups of economic units with similar social and economic functions.” According to this definition, commercial geological prospecting belongs to the mining industry in the longitudinal direction and belongs to the geological prospecting in the horizontal direction. It is an industry that belongs to both industries at the same time. However, for a long time, due to historical reasons, under the planned economy, exploration of solid mineral resources has been carried out with the exception of exploration and production, which is separated from the system of mineral exploitation. It is financed by the government and forms the concept of prospecting by the government and prospecting for the country. So far, no matter from a macro-management perspective or from a micro-management point of view, this notion also affects commercial geological prospecting in many ways to better link with mineral exploitation