Critical mineral deposits of the United States (ver. 2.0, April 2024)

Description

This product includes GIS and data tables for 684 deposits in the United States and Puerto Rico that have past or present production or resources for critical minerals. Deposits are classified by mineral system and deposit types using the Earth Mineral Resources Initiative (EMRI) framework of Hofstra and Kreiner (2020) and the focus areas defined by Dicken and others (2022).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9K1HBNT
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.6464de5bd34ec179a83d9e6c.xml

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  • mineral-deposits
  • puerto-rico
  • usgs-6464de5bd34ec179a83d9e6c
  • united-states
  • mineral-resources
  • geoscientificinformation
  • critical-minerals

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