Mining is made up of processes, activities and industries that aim to extract mineral substances from open pit deposits, underground mines, among others. Currently in Brazil, the most extracted minerals are the metallic ones, like the iron, the manganese and the bauxite and in smaller scale the gold, the copper and the niobium. Extractions of these minerals are the basis of the Brazilian mining industry, with Minas Gerais being the state where most of them are located. The volume calculation of the ore is of great importance for any mining company, since from this calculation it is possible to decide what will be the best use of the produced materials. The ore, after the extraction process, is deposited in piles for further processing. The objective of this paper was to measure and compare the calculation of the volume of the ore piles from the integration between topographic and photogrammetric techniques, using data obtained by planialtimetric measurements collected with a total station and by terrestrial photogrammetry, where images of the pile were collected by low-cost non-metric camera. The percentage of relative error was calculated, resulting in an error of 0.184% of the photogrammetric survey in relation to the topographic survey.
