Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal, {Bi-Monthly}, ISSN 2249-9598, Volume-09, Issue-01, Jan-Feb 2019 Issue www.oiirj.org ISSN 2249-9598 Page 39 A Spatial and Correlational Analysis of Mining and Built-Up Area Expansion of Ramganjmandi City of Kota District, Rajasthan, India (2000-2018) Arushi Rana a , Rashmi Sharma b a Assistant Professor, School Of Earth Sciences, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India b Associate Professor, School Of Earth Sciences, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India Extraction of natural resources is one of the prime activities of economic importance on this human centred earth. Besides this, it also causes socio economic changes. Expanse of the mining area near a city often causes rise in its population which in turn leads to increase in the built-up area. With the trend of growth in population, settlement patterns also take their own shape creating its identity on the landscape. Settlement shows the way humans organize their living. This present paper focuses on settlement pattern, built-up area and mining area of Ramganjmandi tehsil in Kota district of Rajasthan in India. The economy of the area is mainly governed through mining and agriculture. The methodology adopted is Nearest Neighbour Analysis as given by Clark and Evans, 1954 for analysing the settlement pattern. The toposheet were mosaiced in Arc GIS and the geometry was calculated in the software itself. The index came out to be 0.39 showing a pattern of High Concentration. The expansion in the built-up area is caused due to increase in the residential requirements for skilled and unskilled population, area devoted to mining related industry and also the commercial area. In this paper a correlation has been established between the mining area and built up area from the year 2000 to 2018. LANDSAT satellite images have been used for the respective years. The mining area and built-up area has been digitized from the year 2000 to 2018 in arc map software for the tehsil. The geometry of the digitized area has been calculated in the software itself. The built-up area has increased from 2.24 km 2 in the year 2000 to 5.21 km 2 in 2018. A positive correlation has been observed between mining and built up area. KEYWORDS: Settlement, Mining, Nearest neighbour Analysis, Built-up, GIS, Correlation INTRODUCTION Human occupance over much of the earth has evolved from a subsistence stage to the organisational stage, which is based on a wide range of specializations of functions. Due to these changes which are social and economic in character the number of populations have increased in the recent years. [1] Mining is a major stimulus to urbanisation, settlement patterns and population growth. Mining being an economic activity creates a footprint over land in terms of land use and land cover changes. Mining transforms agro-towns into specialised towns which have acquired structural and functional attributes. Mining enhances urbanization in many ways, such as the number of urban places increases, secondly it is major driving force to rural urban migration [1] The settlement patterns are often a signature of prevailing economic activity. Abstract