Electronic core orientation apparatus and instruments integrated into drill string and inner tube head assemblies for recording and transmitting drill core orientation data; electronic sensors, handheld electronic devices, and downloadable or recorded software for measuring, recording, processing, transmitting, synchronizing, and exporting toolface, dip, orientation mark, core quality, core recovery, and core status data; digital core orientation systems for providing orientation readings during core recovery and synchronizing contextual drilling and geological data with cloud-based platforms in the fields of drilling, geology, lithology, mining, and exploration; data logging apparatus, namely, electronic data loggers for logging drill core data; downloadable data processing software for use in the fields of drilling, geology, lithology, mining and exploration; electronic position measuring device for recording the original orientation of core samples extracted from the earth