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An archive of mineral exploration files is maintained by MN DNR at its Hibbing facility MN DNR mineral exploration files archive
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The County Well Index database was initiated by MGS, and is now a collaborative effort of MGS and the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH). Much effort is committed to compile, add value, and distribute data from drilling done mostly by well contractors across the state. The MGS role is in categorization and correlation of materials intersected by drilling, as MDH administers well regulation. This GIS-based system contains basic information for over 540,000 wells drilled in Minnesota, and single-copy paper records are on file for about 100,000 additional sites. The entire well record including construction information such as casing, screen and pump information, hydrologic data, and descriptions of geologic materials...
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Static metadata (current to August 2018) of Minnesota's borehole geophysical log collection maintained by the Minnesota Geological Survey. This collection is web-accessible through the MGS Open Data Portal at https://z.umn.edu/borehole_geo, where users can obtain the most up-to-date information pertaining to old and new borehole geophysical logs and download corresponding PDF and LAS files for each log (if available). The Borehole Geophysical Database (BGD) is a collection of over 7000 borehole geophysical logs of water wells and drill holes throughout Minnesota. Database collections reside at the Minnesota Geological Survey (MGS) and are continually maintained and expanded upon by MGS staff as part of MGS mapping...
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The Karst database is now (06/30/2020) being managed by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Ecological and Water Resources. Since the early 1980s, the partner agencies have been mapping karst features and publishing various versions of their results in the form of 1:100,000 scale County Geologic Atlases. In the mid 1990s, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources was assigned responsibility for the hydrogeology portions of the County Atlases, and therefore is now responsible for the karst mapping. Sinkhole distribution maps have been published for several counties. The karst feature database has been developed to allow sinkhole and other karst feature distributions to be displayed and analyzed across...
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Compiled public domain and donated geotechnical drillhole data; plans call for this database to be merged with sediment composition profiles
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about 90% Precambrian, nearly all related to mapping projects, most from recent decades total to the nearest thousand
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The Minnesota drill core repository is managed by the Department of Natural Resources, in relation to a legislated obligation to submit a one-fourth portion of core samples obtained for mineral exploration. These samples become property of the state and are stored in the DNR's drill core library, located in Hibbing. The original drill core library was constructed in 1972. The most recent additions were constructed in 1990, and were subsequently expanded in 1995. Construction presently is underway on an expansion. The existing facility contains nearly 2.3 million feet of core, extracted from 79 Minnesota counties during the period from 1905 to the present.
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Paleontological specimens related to University of Minnesota School of Earth Sciences research; about a quarter from Minnesota; includes reference collections for lower Paleozoic of the upper Mississippi valley Stored at the Bell Museum
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Thin sections, nearly all Precambrian rocks, nearly all related to mapping projects; many several decades old total to the nearest thousand
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Over 61,000 Minnesota Geological Survey gravity station represents more than 40 years of surveying. The 2003 release added over 2000 stations relative to its 1991 predecessor as a result of ongoing project work, along with inclusion of additional archival data. Ongoing augmentation of the database is based on measurements at stations on profiles spaced at 0.25 mile intervals along corridors, to areas where stations are spaced at 0.5 to 1.0 mile intervals, and in some areas 2 miles, along available roads and trails. Most of the new measurements were taken with a Lacoste and Romberg G-320 gravity meter with a stated precision of 0.01 milligal. As a result of various error sources, gravity values are considered precise...
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Minnesota Geological Survey is working with partners to build a statewide, consistent, standardized, and documented geochemical database, due to the convergence of: 1) systematic sampling & analysis of soils and stream sediments by the USGS & the MGS; 2) completion of a statewide till geochemical survey by MGS in cooperation with industry, and 3) renewed efforts by Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to ensure optimal usability of their state ground-water chemistry data. The soil/sediment data are distributed statewide, were collected over a short period of time, and samples from each project were analyzed by the individual labs following consistent and documented protocols, while the MPCA water analyses were...
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Minnesota Geological Survey (MGS) aeromagnetic data were acquired during a 1979-1991 statewide survey program, and were completely re-processed in 2005/2007 to recover line data that was missing from the primary archive at the National Geophysical Data Center, to improve line-leveling errors in the data, and to re-grid the data. Aeromagnetic database
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Samples are collected by MGS staff at outcrops, from auger drill holes, and rotary sonic drill holes. Samples are processed by student technicians to determine sample texture (% gravel, sand, silt, and clay). Approximately 100-150 grams of original sample is stored in a packet along with subpackets of the gravel fraction, 1-2 mm sand fraction, and <2 mm sand fraction. All lab data are recorded on paper lab sheets stored in the lab. Technicians also enter data into the MGS lithological database. Grain count analyses have been completed by glacial geologists on somewhere between 25 and 50% of these samples. These results are also recorded on paper sheets and in the database.


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