U.S. Geological Survey 2005 vector digital data Reston, Virginia U.S. Geological Survey http://mrdata.usgs.gov/mineplant/ http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/active-mines?request=getcapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.1.1& http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/active-mines?request=getcapabilities&service=WFS&version=1.0.0& This data set includes mineral and metal operations in the United States. The data represent commodities monitored by the National Minerals Information Center of the USGS, and the operations included are those considered active in 2003 and surveyed by the MIT. The digital data set of the National Minerals Information Center is used to create electronic and hard copy maps that depict various mineral or metal mine and/or processing locations on a national map. The data can be used to conduct graphic analysis on national and large regional scales. Additional mineral and metal operations information can be obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center web page at: http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/ 2003 ground condition Complete None planned -162.865000 -67.659000 68.070000 19.628500 None minerals metals mines mining operations mineral operations metal operations Aluminum Asbestos Ball clay Barite Bentonite Beryllium Bismuth Boron Bromine Cadmium Cement Chromium Cobalt Columbium Niobium Copper Diatomite Dimension Stone Feldspar Fullers Earth Garnet Gemstones Gold Gypsum Industrial Sand and Gravel Iron ore Iron oxide Kaolin Kyanite Lead Lime Lithium Magnesite Magnesium compounds Manganese Mercury Mica Molybdenum Nickel Niobium (Columbium) Olivine Peat Perlite Phosphate rock Platinum-group metals Potash Pumice Rare-earth metals Rhenium Rubidium Salt Selenium Silica Silicon Silver Soda Ash (Trona) Sodium sulfate Strontium Sulfur Synthetic Mullite Talc Tellurium Thorium Tin Titanium metal Titanium mineral Titanium pigment Trona (Soda Ash) Tungsten Vanadium Vermiculite Wollastonite Zeolites Zinc Zircon ISO 19115 Topic Categories geoscientificInformation U.S. Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. United States U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the Outlying Areas of the United States, and Associated Areas (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 5-2): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. Alaska Alabama Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Iowa Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Massachusetts Maryland Michigan Minnesota Missouri Mississippi Montana North Carolina North Dakota Nebraska New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico Nevada New York Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Wisconsin Washington West Virginia Wyoming None None. Acknowledgment of the National Minerals Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, government of the United States of America would be appreciated in products derived from these data. Robert Callaghan U.S. Geological Survey mailing address

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Reston VA 20192 703-648-7709 rcallaghan@usgs.gov Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.722 No tests for logical consistency were performed on this data set. This data set includes only U.S. mineral and metal operations monitored by the National Minerals Information Center of the U.S. Geological Survey and considered currently active in 2003. No energy minerals operations (for example, coal) are included. Aggregates operations are limited to those producing over 30,000 tons per year in 2002. Peat operations in Alaska are not included. Placer deposits (gold) in Alaska are not included. Clay operations (ball clay, common clay) may have many satellite pits, not all of which are specifically included. An attempt was made to add locations that may be considered representative of the companies. Plants are limited to operations considered primary -- those which process a mineral or metal to create the first raw material from which products are made. Downstream operations (operations that reprocess a raw material into another raw material or final product) and recycling operations are not included. U.S. Geological Survey Unpublished Material Internal USGS server 1997 2005 ground condition AMIS Minerals operations descriptions U.S. Geological Survey 2004 http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/ online 2003 ground condition Minerals Yearbook 2003 The USGS Minerals Yearbook (MYB) contains statistical information on over 90 commodities. These reviews summarize activity in the commodity. From tables and other information in the MYB lists of active operations were determined. AMIS contains both proprietary and nonproprietary information. For each commodity, the National Minerals Information Center extracted from AMIS the nonproprietary information useful for this application and placed this information in a separate database. This information includes company name, site name, county, state, and coordinates. This information is reported by the company with the exception of coordinates, which have been added by the MIT in an ongoing process that began in 1997. Latitude and longitude for each operation was obtained from at least one of the following sources: Minerals Availability System/Minerals Industry Location System (MAS/MILS) CD-ROM, U.S. Bureau of Mines Special Publication 12-95, web searches using general internet search services (queries by company name or name of the specific operation), company contact, map interpolation, and searches of the EPA database at http://www.epa.gov/enviro.html/multisystem_query_java.html Whenever possible the location information was checked for accuracy and added to the AMIS database. After 2003 coordinates being added were checked, or obtained, when possible using USGS air photos available through Microsoft Terraserver (http://terraserver-usa.com). AMIS 2005 Records extracted from AMIS were compared to information available in the National Minerals Information Center's 2003 Minerals Yearbook and were reviewed by commodity specialists to create the 2003 Active Mines and Plants dataset. Minerals Yearbook 2003 2005 U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the Outlying Areas of the United States, and Associated Areas FIPS 5-2): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. U.S. Department of Commerce, 1990, Counties and Equivalent Entities of the United States, Its Possessions, and Associated Areas, (FIPS 6-4): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. Vector Entity point 6738 0.01 0.01 Decimal degrees North American Datum of 1927 Clarke 1866 6378206.400000 294.978698 Active Mines and Mineral Processing Plants in 2003 Locations of active mines and mineral processing plants in 2003 U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center. COMMODITY The mineral(s) and/or metal(s) produced or processed by the facility. U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center Mineral Commodity Summaries 2006, or http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/mcs/ U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center ID internal feature number U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center 1 6842 SITE_NAME Name of the location; may be the name of the mine or plant or the nearest locality U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center There is no predefined set of standard site names. COMPANY_NA The name of the company operating at the location. U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center There is no predefined set of standard company names. STATE_LOCA State in which the site is located U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the Outlying Areas of the United States, and Associated Areas (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 5-2): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/ COUNTY County in which the operation is located. U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center U.S. Department of Commerce, 1990, Counties and Equivalent Entities of the United States, Its Possessions, and Associated Areas. (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 6-4): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology. http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/ LATITUDE The latittude of the operation in decimal degrees. U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center 19 68 LONGITUDE The longitude of the site in decimal degrees U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center -162.865 -67.659 PLANT_MIN Whether the operation is a mine, a plant, or both U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center. M The operation is a mine U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center P The operation is a plant U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center M/P The facility is both a mine and a plant U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center Peter Schweitzer U.S. Geological Survey mailing address

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Reston VA 20192 703-648-6533 pschweitzer@usgs.gov Downloadable Data Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey regarding the utility of the data on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. ESRI shapefile 1.0 Mine and plant locations and characteristics unzip 0.4 megabytes http://mrdata.usgs.gov/mineplant/mineplant.zip OGC WMS 1.1.1 Mine or plant locations and characteristics http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/active-mines?request=getcapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.1.1& OGC WFS 1.0.0 Mine or plant locations and characteristics http://mrdata.usgs.gov/services/active-mines?request=getcapabilities&service=WFS&version=1.0.0& none 20100923 Robert Callaghan U.S. Geological Survey mailing address

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Reston VA 20192 703 648 7709 rcallaghan@usgs.gov Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time