Locations of mines and mining activity in the contiguous United States 2013

Description

This dataset includes locations and associated information about mines and mining activity in the contiguous United States. The database was developed by combining publicly available national datasets of mineral mines, uranium mines, and minor and major coal mine activities. This database was developed in 2013, but temporal range of mine data varied dependent on source. Uranium mine information came from the TENORM Uranium Location Database produced by the US Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) in 2003. Major and minor coal mine information was from the USTRAT (Stratigraphic data related to coal) database 2012, and the mineral mine data came from the USGS Mineral Resource Program.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5dbb12fbe4b06957974ebf9f.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FPEAGC

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  • mineral-deposits
  • uranium
  • mineral-resources
  • usgs-5dbb12fbe4b06957974ebf9f
  • coal
  • mine-sites

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