Tantalum Deposits in the United States

This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data release provides the descriptions of the only U.S. sites—including mineral regions, mineral occurrences, and mine features—that have reported production and (or) resources of tantalum (Ta). The sites in this data release have contained resource and (or) past production of more than 900 metric tons Ta metal, which was the approximate average annual consumption of Ta in the U.S. from 2016 through 2020. This dataset contains the Bokan Mountain deposit in Alaska and the Round Top deposit in Texas. Tantalum primarily occurs in the mineral tantalite, which may be found in carbonatites, alkaline granite-syenite complexes, and lithium-cesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatites. The largest...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: Alaska, BLM, Bokan Mountain, Bureau of Land Management, DOI, All tags... Department of the Interior, Earth MRI, Earth Mapping Resources Initiative, Energy and Minerals Mission Area, GGGSC, Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center, MRP, Mineral Resources Program, Region 7: Upper Colorado Basin, Round Top, Texas, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, USGS Mineral Deposit Database, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), USMIN, United States, aluminum, beryllium, critical minerals, deposit, deposit type, economic geology, economy, gallium, geographic information systems, geoscientificInformation, geospatial datasets, hafnium, iron, lithium, location, magnesium, manganese, metallic mineral resources, mine sites, mineral deposit areas, mineral deposits, mineral resources, mining district, natural resource exploration, niobium, open pit mine, peralkaline intrusion-related REE deposits, potassium, rare earth elements, scandium, sodium, tantalum, thorium, tin, titanium, uranium, vanadium, yttrium, zirconium, Fewer tags

Concentration Data for 12 Elements of Concern Used in the Development of Surrogate Models for Estimating Elemental Concentrations in Surface Water of Three Hydrologic Basins (Delaware River, Illinois River and Upper Colorado River)

The release of elements of concern (EoC) to surface water can involve both natural and anthropogenic sources. Elevated EoC concentrations can pose a risk to human health, wildlife, and ecosystem health, with the modes of toxicity and extent of risk varying as a function of the specific element, its chemical form and the matrix with which it is associated (for example, dissolved versus particulate). As part of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Mission Area (WMA) Water Quality Processes Program, the Proxies (Surrogate) Project was created, in part, to develop models that can be used to estimate the concentration of EoC in riverine surface water at spatial scales ranging from (sub)basin to multi-basin. Three...

Categories: Data; Tags: Delaware, Illinois, Integrated Water Science, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Upper Colorado, All tags... aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, computational methods, copper, data processing, datasets, dissolved metals, environmental proxies, inlandWaters, iron, lead, manganese, mercury, modeling, river basin, rivers, uranium, water chemistry, zinc, Fewer tags

GIS for focus areas of potential domestic resources of 11 critical minerals—aluminum, cobalt, graphite, lithium, niobium, platinum group elements, rare earth elements, tantalum, tin, titanium, and tungsten (version 2.0, August 2020)

In response to Executive Order 13817 of December 20, 2017, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) coordinated with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to identify 35 nonfuel minerals or mineral materials considered critical to the economic and national security of the United States (U.S.) (https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2018/1021/ofr20181021.pdf). Acquiring information on possible domestic sources of these critical minerals is the rationale for the USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI). The program, which partners the USGS with State Geological Surveys, federal agencies, and the private sector, aims to collect new geological, geophysical, and topographic (lidar) data in key areas of the U.S. to stimulate mineral...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, All tags... Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI), Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mineral Resources, Mineral Resources Program (MRP), Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, aluminum, cobalt, critical mineral, economic geology, geospatial datasets, graphite, heavy rare earth elements, iron-oxide apatite, iron-oxide copper gold, light rare earth elements, lithium, mineral deposits, niobium, phosphate, platinum group elements, rare earth elements, tantalum, tin, titanium, tungsten, Fewer tags

WMR 239 - Springvale Bauxite District. Randolph County, Georgia. 1944.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aluminum, Randolph County, Georgia

WMR 032 - Mississippi Bauxite and Bauxitic Clay. Benton County, Mississippi & Calhoun County, Alabama. 1942.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aluminum, Benton County, Mississippi, Calhoun County, Alabama

WMR 008 - MoIalla Clay. Clackamas County, Oregon. 1943.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aluminum, Clackamas County, Oregon

WMR 080 - Pontotoc District. Pontotoc & Union Counties, Mississippi. 1943.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aluminum, Pontotoc County, Mississippi, Union County, Mississippi

Alaska Geochemical Database Version 3.0 (AGDB3) including best value data compilations for rock, sediment, soil, mineral, and concentrate sample media

The Alaska Geochemical Database Version 3.0 (AGDB3) contains new geochemical data compilations in which each geologic material sample has one best value determination for each analyzed species, greatly improving speed and efficiency of use. Like the Alaska Geochemical Database Version 2.0 before it, the AGDB3 was created and designed to compile and integrate geochemical data from Alaska to facilitate geologic mapping, petrologic studies, mineral resource assessments, definition of geochemical baseline values and statistics, element concentrations and associations, environmental impact assessments, and studies in public health associated with geology. This relational database, created from databases and published...

Categories: Data, Data Release - Revised; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: AGDB, AMRAP, Alaska Geochemical Database, Alaska Mineral Resource Assessment Program, Alaska Range, All tags... Aleutian Range, Alexander Archipelago, Brooks Range, Chugach Mountains, Geochemistry, Heavy Mineral Program, Kuskokwim Mountains, Mineralogy, Praseodymium, Seward Peninsula, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wrangell Mountains, aluminum, analytical chemistry, antimony, arsenic, ash, barium, beryllium, bismuth, boron, bound or essential water, bromine, bulk density, cadmium, calcium, calcium carbonate, carbon, carbon dioxide, carbonate carbon, cerium, cesium, chemical analysis, chlorine, chromium, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, environmental geochemistry, erbium, europium, exploration geochemistry, f02013=Eastern Aleutian Islands, f02016=Western Aleutian Islands, fOC4101=Gulf of Alaska, fOC4102=Bering Sea, fUS02=Alaska, fUS=United States, ferric iron, ferrous iron, fluorine, gadolinium, gallium, geochemical data, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, germanium, gold, hafnium, heavy-mineral concentrate chemistry, holmium, hydrogen, indium, iodine, iridium, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, loss on ignition, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, mineral resources, mineralogical data, mineralogy, moisture or nonessential water, molybdenum, neodymium, nickel, niobium, nitrate, nitrogen, organic carbon, osmium, pH, palladium, phosphorus, platinum, potassium, powder density, pyritic sulfur, rhenium, rhodium, rock chemistry, rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, sediment chemistry, selenium, silicon, silver, sodium, soil chemistry, strontium, sulfate, sulfide, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, total water, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Multi-element geochemical analyses of selected samples from the Mesoproterozoic Nonesuch Formation and Copper Harbor Conglomerate at the Copperwood copper deposit, Michigan, USA

This data release provides multi-element data for drill core samples from the Mesoproterozoic Nonesuch Formation and Copper Harbor Conglomerate at the Copperwood copper deposit, Michigan, USA. Gold, platinum, and palladium data were collected by fire assay; copper and silver were collected by assay; and other elements were collected by inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) or inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) following a digestion that used hydrochloric, nitric, perchloric and hydrofluoric acids. The Copperwood copper deposit is a sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposit in the Presque Isle Syncline of the upper peninsula of Michigan. The deposit has a 2018 mineral...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Economic Geology, Geochemistry, Mesoproterozoic, Michigan, Mineral Resources, All tags... Nonesuch Formation, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Upper Peninsula, aluminum, analytical chemistry, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, bismuth, cadmium, calcium, chemical analysis, chromium, cobalt, copper, exploration geochemistry, gallium, geochemical data, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, gold, iron, lead, lithium, magnesium, manganese, mercury, mineral resources, molybdenum, nickel, palladium, phosphorus, platinum, potassium, rock chemistry, scandium, silver, sodium, strontium, sulfur, tellurium, thallium, titanium, uranium, vanadium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

National Geochemical Database on Ore Deposits: Legacy data

There is a growing demand for commodities (elements, compounds, minerals) used in today's advanced technologies. Critical minerals are usually found in ore deposits that are deemed vital to economic and national security. The National Geochemical Database on Ore Deposits: Legacy data (NGDOD) contains chemistry and geologic information for nearly 30,000 historic ore and ore-related rock samples from mineral deposits and mining districts in the United States. Geochemical data sets from various mineral deposits were submitted by geologists of the "Systems Approach to Critical Minerals Inventory, Research, and Assessment" (SACM) within the U.S. Geological Survey Mineral Resource Program (MRP). The data sets represent...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Economic Geology, All tags... Geochemistry, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Mineral Resources, Missouri, Montana, NGDB, National Geochemical Database, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United States, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, alkali metal elements, alkaline earth elements, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, atomic absorption analysis, atomic emission spectroscopy, barium, beryllium, bismuth, boron, bromine, cadmium, calcium, carbon, cerium, cesium, chemical analysis, chlorine, chromium, cobalt, copper, critical minerals, dysprosium, economic geology, erbium, europium, fluorine, gadolinium, gallium, geochemical data, geochemistry, geoscientificInformation, germanium, gold, hafnium, halogen elements, historic ores, holmium, igneous rocks, indium, iridium, iron, lanthanide series elements, lanthanum, lead, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, mass spectroscopy, mercury, metal elements, metallic mineral resources, metamorphic rocks, mineral deposit type, mineral deposits, mineral resources, mineral system type, molybdenum, neodymium, neutron activation analysis, nickel, niobium, nonmetal elements, nonmetallic mineral resources, osmium, oxygen, palladium, phosphorus, platinum, platinum-group elements, plutonic rocks, potassium, praseodymium, rare earth elements, rhenium, rhodium, rock geochemistry, rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, sedimentary rocks, selenium, silicon, silver, sodium, strontium, sulfur, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, volcanic rocks, x-ray fluorescence, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, zirconium, Fewer tags

Groundwater water-quality data for select constituents in Williston Basin, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota for water years 1970-2014

The groundwater water-quality data were compiled from Water Quality Portal (https://www.waterqualitydata.us/) (National Water Quality Monitoring Council, 2015), USGS’s NAWQA Project’s data compilation (Oelsner and others, 2017), and the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology (Montana Bureau of Mines, 2021), The compilation contains data for chloride, pH, specific conductance, sulfate, total dissolved solids (TDS) collected between water year 1970 to 2014. In addition 10 metals (aluminum, arsenic, barium, chromium, copper, iron, lead, selenium strontium, and zinc) analyzed during water years 1993 through 2014. National Water-Quality Monitoring Council, 2015, Water Quality Portal: National Water-Quality Monitoring Council,...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Water-Quality Parameters, Williston Basin, All tags... aluminum, arsenic, barium, chloride, chromium, copper, elevation, groundwater, groundwater chemistry, groundwater quality, inlandWaters, iron, lead, pH, selenium, specific conductance, strontium, sulfate, total dissolved solids, water quality, zinc, Fewer tags

Attachment E for Michigan Critical Minerals FY2019

Attachment E contains information about the location, description, production, and references to critical minerals mined in Michigan for aluminum, cobalt, natural graphite, lithium, niobium/tantalum, platinum group, tin, titanium, and tungsten.

Categories: Data; Tags: Geological Collection, Michigan, aluminum, cobalt, critical minerals, All tags... lithium, natural graphite, ndc_collection, niobium/tantalum, platinum group, tin, titanium, tungsten, Fewer tags

WMR 117 - South Ironton Deposit. Pulaski County, Arkansas. 1943.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aluminum, Pulaski County, Arkansas

WMR 254 - Clay Deposits of Southwestern North Dakota. Slope County, North Dakota. 1943.

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Aluminum, Clay, Slope County, North Dakota

OFR 80-86 - Capital and Operating Cost Estimating System Handbook for Aluminum Smelter Facility. 1986.

This report provides the methodology for developing capital and operating costs for aluminum smelter facilities. The costs developed are for a mid -United States location with the methodology prepared to allow translation of costs worldwide. Also, costs for environmental and alternative unit processes are identified.

Tags: Aluminum