Rare Earth Element Occurrences in the United States

Version 4.0 of this data release provides descriptions of more than 200 mineral districts, mines, and mineral occurrences (deposits, prospects, and showings) within the United States that are reported to contain substantial enrichments of the rare earth elements (REEs). These mineral occurrences include mined deposits, exploration prospects, and other occurrences with notable concentrations of the REEs. The inclusion of a particular mineral occurrence in this database is not meant to imply that it has economic potential. Rather, these occurrences were included to capture the distribution and characteristics of the known, reported REEs deposits in the United States, which are diverse in their geology and resource...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, All tags... California, Colorado, Earth MRI, Earth Mapping Resources Initiative, Florida, GGGSC, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, MRP, Mineral Resources Program, Mineralogy, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Mineral Deposit Database, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USMIN, United States, Virginia, Wyoming, cerium, critical mineral, dysprosium, economic geology, economy, erbium, europium, gadolinium, geographic information systems, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, holmium, lanthanum, location, lutetium, mine, mine sites, mineral commodity, mineral deposit areas, mineral deposit type, mineral deposits, mineral occurrence, mineral resources, natural resource exploration, neodymium, open pit mine, praseodymium, rare earth elements, samarium, surface workings, terbium, thulium, underground workings, ytterbium, yttrium, Fewer tags

Cobalt Deposits in the United States

This data release provides descriptions of more than 60 mineral regions, mines, and mineral deposits within the United States and its territories that are reported to contain enrichments of cobalt (Co). To focus the scope of this data release, we report only mined deposits and exploration prospects with past production, or resource and reserve estimates of 1,000 metric tons or more of cobalt. Cobalt has diverse uses because of its properties, which include ferromagnetism, hardness, wear-resistance, low conductivity, and high melting point. The primary uses for cobalt are in rechargeable battery electrodes, and in superalloys used to make gas turbine engines. In 2017, the United States had a net import reliance...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alaska, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, California, GGGSC, All tags... Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Idaho, MRP, Maine, Michigan, Mineral Resources Program, Mineralogy, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Mineral Deposit Database, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, barite, cobalt, copper, critical mineral, economic geology, geographic information systems, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, gold, iron, lead, location, mine, mine sites, mineral commodity, mineral deposit areas, mineral deposit type, mineral deposits, mineral occurrence, mineral resources, natural resource exploration, net smelter return (NSR), nickel, open pit mine, palladium, platinum, silver, sulfur, surface workings, underground workings, zinc, Fewer tags

Tungsten Deposits in the United States (ver. 2.0, August 2020)

This is version 2.0 of Tungsten Deposits in the United States. This data release provides the descriptions of approximately 100 U.S. sites that include mineral regions, mineral occurrences (deposits), and mine features that contain enrichments of tungsten (W). This data release reports on U.S. mines and deposits with greater than or equal to 215 metric tons of tungsten metal (30,000 short ton units of tungsten trioxide). Sites in this database occur in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, Utah and Washington. As a part of the process set forth by Executive Order 13817, the USGS National Minerals Information Center (NMIC) identified W as a critical mineral...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Adit, Alaska, Alluvial placer Sn, Arc-related porphyry Mo, Area, All tags... Arizona, Au-W breccia, Brine, Brine Mine, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), California, Climax Mo deposits, Colorado, Department of the Interior (DOI), Deposit, Disseminated pluton Au-Sb, Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI), Energy and Minerals Mission Area, Epithermal Mn, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center (GGGSC), Idaho, Mine Feature, Mine Shaft, Mineral District, Mineral Occurrence, Mineral Region, Mineral Resources Program (MRP), Mining District, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Open Pit Mine, Placer Au-W, Placer Mine, Polymetallic veins, Porphyry Cu, Porphyry Mo-Cu, Porphyry Mo-Nb, Region 7: Upper Colorado Basin, Replacement in calcareous schists Au-Ag-Sb, Sn greisen deposits, Sn skarn deposits, Texas, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), USGS Mineral Deposit Database (USMIN), USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Underground Workings, United States, Utah, W skarn deposits, W veins, Washington, antimony, arsenic, beryllium, copper, critical mineral, data release, deposit type, economic geology, economy, ferberite, fluorspar, geographic information systems, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, gold, hübnerite, iron, lead, lithium, location, metallic mineral resources, mine sites, mineral deposit areas, mineral deposits, mineral resources, molybdenum, natural resource exploration, niobium, platinum-group elements, rare-earth elements, rhenium, scheelite, silver, sulfur, tin, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, zinc, Fewer tags

Graphite deposits in the United States

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data release provides the descriptions of 10 U.S. sites that include mineral regions, mineral occurrences, and mine features that contain enrichments of graphite. To be included in this data release, sites must have a contained resource and (or) past production of more than 1,000 metric tons of graphite, which is approximately 3 percent of the average annual U.S. consumption of graphite from 2016 through 2020. Sites in this dataset occur in Alaska, Alabama, Colorado, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas. There are known graphite occurrences in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Wyoming that have not been...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: 37f - Disseminated flake graphite, 37g - Graphite veins, Alabama, Alaska, BLM, All tags... Bureau of Land Management, Colorado, Coosa, DOI, Department of the Interior, Earth MRI, Earth Mapping Resources Initiative, Energy and Minerals Mission Area, GGGSC, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, Graphite Creek, MRP, Mineral Resources Program, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania, Region 7: Upper Colorado Basin, Southwestern Graphite, Texas, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Mineral Deposit Database, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USMIN, United States, copper, critical minerals, deposit, deposit type, economic geology, economy, geographic information systems, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, gold, graphite, lead, location, metallic mineral resources, mine sites, mineral deposit areas, mineral deposits, mineral district, mineral resources, mining district, natural resource exploration, open pit mine, silver, underground workings, unspecified mine feature, Fewer tags

Tungsten Deposits in the United States

Note: this data release has been superseded by version 2.0, available here: https://doi.org/10.5066/P97NJLI4.

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alaska, Arizona, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, California, All tags... Colorado, GGGSC, Geology, Geophysics, Idaho, MRP, Mineral Resources Program, Mineralogy, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Mineral Deposit Database, United States, Utah, Washington, and Geochemistry Science Center, antimony, arsenic, asbestos, barite, beryllium, borax, copper, critical mineral, economic geology, economy, fluorine, gallium, geographic information systems, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, gold, iron, lead, location, manganese, mercury, mine, mine sites, mineral commodity, mineral deposit areas, mineral deposit type, mineral deposits, mineral occurrence, mineral resources, molybdenum, natural resource exploration, niobium, open pit mine, palladium, platinum, potash, rare earth elements, rhenium, salt, silver, soda ash, surface workings, tin, tungsten, underground workings, uranium, zinc, Fewer tags