Mineral Resources On-Line Spatial Data

MRDS describes metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources throughout the world. Included are deposit name, location, commodity, deposit description, geologic characteristics, production, reserves, resources, and references. It includes the original MRDS and MAS/MILS data.

MRDS is large and complex. This service provides a subset of the database comprised of those data fields deemed most useful and which most frequently contain some information.

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[Conterminous US] - [Alaska] - [Global]

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Show in your GIS using OGC WMS:

http://mrdata.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=mrds.map&request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.1.1

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Get the entire data set

• Download entire data set (39 Mb zipped shapefile expands to 1.1 Gb)
• Download just US data (33.5 Mb zipped shapefile expands to 955 Mb)

Search the database:

• Search by site name, US state, or commodity
• Search outside US

Documentation:

Metadata:

[Outline] - [Questions & Answers] - [Plain text]

About the database fields

• All database fields, by category
• Database field categories

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URL: http://tin.er.usgs.gov/mrds/index.shtml
Page Contact Information: Peter Schweitzer
Page Last Modified: Wednesday, 17-Jun-2009 12:37:02 EDT