J.M. Eros Luissette Candelario-Quintana 2006 vector digital data Derived from USGS Open-File report 2006-1135 Reston, Virginia U.S. Geological Survey http://mrdata.usgs.gov/ J.M. Eros Luissette Candelario-Quintana 2006 map U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1135 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1135/ This data set consists of records for over 1,500 mineral facilities in Africa and the Middle East. The mineral facilities include mines, plants, mills , or refineries of aluminum, cement, coal, copper, diamond, gold, iron and steel, nickel, platinum-group metals, salt, and silver, among others. Records include attributes such as commodity, country, site, company name, plant capacity if applicable, and generalized coordinates. The data were compiled from multiple sources, including the 2004 USGS Minerals Yearbook (Africa and Middle East volume), minerals statistics and information from the USGS minerals information Web site (http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/), and data collected by USGS minerals information country specialists. Data reflect the most recent published table of industry structure for each country. Other sources include statistical publications of individual countries, annual reports and press releases of operating companies, and trade journals. Due to the sensitivity of some energy commodity data, the quality of these data should be evaluated on a country-by-country basis. Additional information and explanation is available from the country specialists. The purpose of this data set is to present information about the mineral facilities of Africa and the Mineral East, including their location, ownership or operating company, operating status, and capacity. This data set reflects the mineral operations pertinent to commodities discussed in the International Minerals Yearbook chapters of the USGS. 2003 ground condition Complete None planned -34.183 48.7 61.243 -25.0 USGS Mineral Commodity Surveys, 2006 available online at URL: http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/mcs/ aggregate alumina aluminum antimony arsenic asbestos barite bauxite bentonite boron bromine cadmium cement chromium clay cobalt columbium copper diamond diatomite dimension stone ferroalloys fluorspar gemstone germanium gold graphite gypsum iron kaolin lead lime lithium magnesium manganese mercury mica molybdenum nickel niobium nitrogen peat perlite phosphate platinum group metals potash pyrophyllite salt selenium silicon silver soda ash stone stone - crushed stone - dimension sulfur talc tantalum tin titanium tungsten vanadium vermiculite wollastonite zeolite zinc zirconium crushed stone None commodity metal mine mineral processing plant ISO 19115 Topic Categories geoscientificInformation USGS Minerals Yearbook (Volume III. -- Area Reports: International), 2003; available at http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/ Africa Mideast FIPS 10-4 "Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions" Algeria Angola Bahrain Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Congo - Brazzaville Congo - Kinshasa Cote D'Ivoire Cyprus Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Ghana Guinea Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kenya Kuwait Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Oman Qatar Reunion Rwanda Saudi Arabia Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Syria Tanzania Togo Tunisia Turkey U.A.E. Uganda Western Sahara Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe None None, however the responsibility of determining fitness for any particular use is that of the user of these data. Yolanda Fong-Sam U. S. Geological Survey Country specialist mailing address

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Reston VA 20192 703-648-7756 yfongs-sam@usgs.gov International Section of the National Minerals Information Center of the U.S. Geological Survey Microsoft Excel 2002, ArcGIS 9.1 No gurarantee is made as to the accuracy of the attributes. Attributes values represent best-available data from research of sources such as statistical publications of individual countries, annual reports and press releases of operating companies, and trade journals. Coordinates were added by researching the company name and general location; in some cases coordinates may be that of the nearest town or province centroid. Due to the sensitivity of some energy commodity data, the quality of these data should be evaluated on a country-by-country basis. No test for logical consistency was performed on this data set. It should be noted that values for the field describing plant capacities are in various units of measure; another field records the unit of measure. The data were gathered in support of the USGS Minerals Yearbook (Volume III. -- Area Reports: International). An attempt was made to include operations known to be or have been economically significant and therefore included in the Yearbook tables, if not directly mentioned then these operations in some way were ones for which production numbers were calculated to create the Yearbook tables. This downloadable data set is missing 141 operations for which coordinates could not be found; however the USGS Open File Report 2006-1135 (the larger work from which this data set is derived) lists these operations without their coordinates. The coordinates of the operations were obtained at a world scale. In many cases the coordinates are those of nearby cities or province centroids, especially where the site name is that of a city or province. The United States Board on Geographic Names Unknown tabular digital data online National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency http://gnswww.nga.mil/geonames/GNS/index.jsp online 2006 ground condition GEOnet The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names' (US BGN) database of foreign geographic feature names. The database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the US BGN. Approximately 20,000 of the database's features are updated monthly. This source was used when it was necessary to use a locality as the coordinates rather than the actual site. Falling Rain Genomics Unknown http://www.fallingrain.com/world/ online unknown publication date Global Gazeteer Version 2.1 This website contains generalized coordinates for worldwide place names, which were sometimes used as coordinates for operations. U.S. Geological Survey 2004 document 2004 Minerals Yearbook Volume 3 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/index.html#pubs online 2004 ground condition USGS Minerals Yearbook 2004 Volume 3 The USGS Minerals Yearbook Volume 3 covers the mineral industries of countries other than the United States. U.S. Geological Survey 2003 document 2003 Minerals Yearbook Volume 3 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/index.html#pubs online 2003 ground condition USGS Minerals Yearbook 2003 Volume 3 The USGS Minerals Yearbook Volume 3 covers the mineral industries of countries other than the United States and was used if the 2004 chapter for a particular country was not available. USGS National Minerals Information Center Country Specialists provided the authors of U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1135 with lists of operations known to be active in the countries of Africa and the Middle East based on their research of statistical publications of individual countries, annual reports and press releases of operating companies, and trade journals. Plant capacities were also provided when possible. USGS Minerals Yearbook Volume 3 2003-2006 Using available information such as company name and province or nearest city in which it is located, coordinates were obtained from various sources. Coordinates may be very general, such as a representative point in the province or the nearest city Global Gazetteer Version 2.1 GEOnet 2003-2006 Open-File Reort 2006-1135 was created, which is in the form of a map (adobe illustrator and pdf) and an excel spreadsheet. 2006 Records without coordinates (141) were deleted from the spreadsheet published as part of the open-file report. The resulting table was added to ArcMap 9.1 and exported as a shapefile 2006 Point Point 1451 0.01 0.01 Decimal degrees World Geodetic System 84 WGS-84 6378137 meters 294.26 Mineral facilities of Africa and the Middle East A mineral facility can be a mine or a processing plant of a mineral or other commodity referenced in the USGS Minerals Yearbooks USGS National Minerals Information Center Position Unique identifying number corresponding to label on map published as Open-File Report 2006-1135 Open-File Report 2006-1135, online at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1135/ 1 1593 None Country The country in which the mine or processing plant is located USGS National Minerals Information Center FIPS 10-4 "Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions" http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/ Site Name given to a mine or processing plant that distinguishes it from others the company owning the facility may have. It may be the name of the facility given to it by the company or others in the industry or it may be the name of the nearest city or province. Various professional directories No standard set of site names exists. Facility The type of operation -- may be a mine or one of several kinds of processing plants U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center - The type of operation was not able to be determined U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center brine plant A commodity is extracted from brine at the site U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center gas field Natural gas is produced at the site U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center kiln, mill A concentrated mineral product is produced at the site by physically separating mineral components of an ore, and the facility also is known to have a kiln U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center mill A concentrated mineral product is produced at the site by physically separating mineral components of an ore U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center mine Raw material is removed from the site for processing U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center mines The operation is a mining complex; specific mine names were not able to be determined U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center offshore mine The operation is an offshore mine U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center oilfield The operation pertains to an oil field U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center plant The operation is a processing plant for the commodity pertaining to the site U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center plant, refinery The operation is considered to be a refinery for the commodity pertaining to the site -- for petroleum operations a facility at which crude oil is converted to petroleum products; for metal operations a facility at which metals are purified U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center quarries The operation consists of a group of open pit mines U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center quarry The operation is a an open pit mine U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center refinery The operation is considered to be a refinery for the commodity pertaining to the site -- for petroleum operations a facility at which crude oil is converted to petroleum products; for metal operations a facility at which metals are purified U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center rolling mill The operation produces metal sheet or other similar products U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center smelter The operation is considered to be a smelter for the commodity pertaining to the site -- this refers to a processing facility where concentrates of ores are heated to high temperatures and metal is chemically extracted from the concentrate U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center smelter, refinery the operation is both a smelter and a refinery for the commodity pertaining to the site U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center well The commodity is obtained through a well U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center DMS_Lat Angular distance measured on a meridian north or south from the equator, measured in degrees-minutes-seconds GEOnet Names Server (GNS) available at http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/thesaurus/catalog/ 34° 11' 00" S 37° 33' 18" N degrees, minutes, seconds DMS_Lon Angular distance between the plane of a meridian east or west from the plane of the meridian of Greenwich, measured in degrees-minutes-seconds. GEOnet Names Server (GNS) available at http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/thesaurus/catalog/ 025° 00' 00" W 057° 29' 56" E degrees, minutes, seconds Latitude Angular distance measured on a meridian north or south from the equator, measured in decimal degrees. Spatial Data Transfer Standard maintained by USGS and available at http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/sdts/standard.html -34.19 48.70 Decimal degrees Longitude Angular distance between the plane of a meridian east or west from the plane of the meridian of Greenwich, measured in decimal degrees. Spatial Data Transfer Standard maintained by USGS and available at http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/sdts/standard.html 22.133 36.392 Decimal degrees COMMODITY The material mined or processed at the site Various professional directories While commodities generally follow those covered in the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries available online at http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/mcs/, in some cases descriptors are added to give information about the raw material, or process used. In some cases multiple commodities are processed at a site; all commodities pertaining to a site are listed in this field and there is no standard set of possible combinations though some combinations are more likely than others to occur. METHOD The method of mining used by the operation if it is considered to be a mine U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center - Mining method is not known or is not applicable because the operation is a processing plant rather than a mine U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center S The mine is an open-pit or other surface mine U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center S, U The mine is an open-pit or other surface mine and also has an underground component U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center U The operation is a an underground mine U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center U, S The mine is an underground mine with surface operations as well U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center COMPANY The principal company operating at the site Various professional directories No standard set of company names exists STATUS An indicator of whether an operation was producing in 2004 U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center - The status of the operation is not known U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center active The operation was producing in 2004 U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center closed The operation was closed in 2004 U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center CAPACITY The amount it is possible to produce at the facility Various professional directories Capacity is numeric however in some records descriptors such as material being measured were added; some records may have capacities for different commodities. Capacities in different records can not be directly compared because units of measurement vary between records; the units are given in a different field in the record. UNITS The unit of measure for the plant capacity attribute of the site. U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center 42 gallon barrels / day The plant capacity is measured by number of 42 gallon barrels that can be produced per day Various professional directories 42 gallon barrels / yr The plant capacity is measured by number of 42 gallon barrels that can be produced per year Various professional directories carats / yr The plant capacity is measured in number of carats of the commodity that can be produced per year Various professional directories cubic meters/yr The plant capacity is measured in number of cubic meters of the commodity that can be produced per year Various professional directories kg / yr The plant capacity is measured in number of kilograms of the commodity that can be produced per year Various professional directories million 42 gallon barrels / yr The plant capacity is measured in millions of 42 gallon barrels that can be produced per year Various professional directories million cubic meters The plant capacity is measured in million cubic meters but it is not known if it is per year or per day Various professional directories million cubic meters / yr The plant capacity is measured by the millions of cubic meters of the commodity that can be produced per year Various professional directories t / yr The plant capacity is measured in tons per year -- it is not known whether these are short tons or metric tons Various professional directories t / yr, kg / yr The plant capacity for the first commodity listed in the commodity field is measured in tons per year -- it is not known whether these are short tons or metric tons, and the plant capacity for the second commodity is measured in kilograms that can be produced per year Various professional directories thousand 42 gallon barrels / day The plant capacity is measured in thousands of barrels that can be produced per day that each hold 42 gallons Various professional directories thousand 42 gallon barrels / yr The plant capacity is measured in thousands of barrels that can be produced per year that each hold 42 gallons Various professional directories Yolanda Fong-Sam U.S. Geological Survey mailing Address

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Reston VA 20192 703 648-7756 Yfong-sam@usgs.gov Although these data have been used by the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the U.S. Geological Survey as to the accuracy of the data. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty, and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. Geological Survey in the use of these data, software, or related materials. The use of firm, trade, or brand names in this report is for identification purposes only and does not constitute endorsement by the U.S. Geological Survey. The names mentioned in this document may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective trademark owners. map and spreadsheet 1.0 http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1135/ Shapefile 1.0 mineral facilities of Africa and the Mideast unzip http://mrdata.usgs.gov/ None 20100923 2007 USGS National Minerals Information Center Robert Callaghan 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